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NPJ PARKINSONS DISEASE
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41531-022-00434-4
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- Race Against Dementia Alzheimer's Research UK fellowship [ARUK-RADF2019A-003]
- UK DRI Ltd. by the UK Medical Research Council
- Alzheimer's Society
- NIH [U01AG046139, U01TR003715]
- Alzheimer's Research UK
The study investigates the dynamics of alpha-synuclein accumulation and turnover in neurodegenerative diseases, finding that aggregation, overexpression, phosphorylation, and mutation do not affect alpha-syn dynamics, while exogenous alpha-syn fibril seeds significantly slow turnover.
The accumulation of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) in intracellular formations known as Lewy bodies (LBs) is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia. There is still limited understanding of how alpha-syn and LB formation is associated with cellular dysfunction and degeneration in these diseases. To examine the clearance and production dynamics of alpha-syn we transduced organotypic murine brain slice cultures (BSCs) with recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) to express Dendra2-tagged human wild-type (WT) and mutant A53T alpha-syn, with and without the addition of exogenous alpha-syn fibrillar seeds and tracked them over several weeks in culture using optical pulse labeling. We found that neurons expressing WT or mutant A53T human alpha-syn show similar rates of alpha-syn turnover even when insoluble, phosphorylated Ser129 alpha-syn has accumulated. Taken together, this data reveals alpha-syn aggregation and overexpression, pSer129 alpha-syn, nor the A53T mutation affect alpha-syn dynamics in this system. Prion-type seeding with exogenous alpha-syn fibrils significantly slows alpha-syn turnover, in the absence of toxicity but is associated with the accumulation of anti-p62 immunoreactivity and Thiazin Red positivity. Prion-type induction of alpha-syn aggregation points towards a potential protein clearance deficit in the presence of fibrillar seeds and the ease of this system to explore precise mechanisms underlying these processes. This system facilitates the exploration of alpha-syn protein dynamics over long-term culture periods. This platform can further be exploited to provide mechanistic insight on what drives this slowing of alpha-syn turnover and how therapeutics, other genes or different alpha-syn mutations may affect alpha-syn protein dynamics.
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