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FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00200
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; extracellular vesicles; neutral sphingomyelinase 2; alpha-syn; hypoxia; cell-to-cell transmission; sphingomyelin; ceramide
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- Swedish Research Council [523-2013-2735]
- Swedish Brain Foundation
- Research Foundation of the Swedish Parkinson's Disease Association
- Ostergotland Research Foundation for Parkinson's Disease
- Parkinson Research Foundation
- Swedish Alzheimer's Foundation
- Hans-Gabriel and Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister Foundation for Medical Research
- Konung Gustaf V:s och Drottning Victorias Frimurarestiftelse
- Swedish Dementia Foundation
- Linkoping University Neurobiology Center
- County Council of Ostergotland
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Recently, extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, have been proposed to play an influential role in the cell-to-cell spread of neurodegenerative diseases, including the intercellular transmission of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn). However, the regulation of EV biogenesis and its relation to Parkinson's disease (PD) is only partially understood. The generation of EVs through the ESCRT-independent pathway depends on the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin by neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) to produce ceramide, which causes the membrane of endosomal multivesicular bodies to bud inward. nSMase2 is sensitive to oxidative stress, a common process in PD brains; however, little is known about the role of sphingomyelin metabolism in the pathogenesis of PD. This is the first study to show that inhibiting nSMase2 decreases the transfer of oligomeric aggregates of alpha-syn between neuron-like cells. Furthermore, it reduced the accumulation and aggregation of high-molecular-weight alpha-syn. Hypoxia, as a model of oxidative stress, reduced the levels of nSMase2, but not its enzymatic activity, and significantly altered the lipid composition of cells without affecting EV abundance or the transfer of alpha-syn. These data show that altering sphingolipids can mitigate the spread of alpha-syn, even under hypoxic conditions, potentially suppressing PD progression.
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