期刊
ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA
卷 118, 期 5, 页码 605-616出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-009-0581-5
关键词
Frontotemporal dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Neuronal intermediate filament disease; Fused in sarcoma; Translocated in liposarcoma
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [74580]
- Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 596]
- Stavros-Niarchos Foundation
- Synapsis Foundation
- German Brain Bank BrainNet''
- National Institute of Health [P50 AG16574]
Neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID) is an uncommon neurodegenerative condition that typically presents as early-onset, sporadic frontotemporal dementia (FTD), associated with a pyramidal and/or extrapyramidal movement disorder. The neuropathology is characterized by frontotemporal lobar degeneration with neuronal inclusions that are immunoreactive for all class IV intermediate filaments (IF), light, medium and heavy neurofilament subunits and alpha-internexin. However, not all the inclusions in NIFID are IF-positive and the primary molecular defect remains uncertain. Mutations in the gene encoding the fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein have recently been identified as a cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Because of the recognized clinical, genetic and pathological overlap between FTD and ALS, we investigated the possible role of FUS in NIFID. We found abnormal intracellular accumulation of FUS to be a consistent feature of our NIFID cases (n = 5). More neuronal inclusions were labeled using FUS immunohistochemistry than for IF. Several types of inclusions were consistently FUS-positive but IF-negative, including neuronal intranuclear inclusions and glial cytoplasmic inclusions. Double-label immunofluorescence confirmed that many cells had only FUS-positive inclusions and that all cells with IF-positive inclusions also contained pathological FUS. No mutation in the FUS gene was identified in a single case with DNA available. These findings suggest that FUS may play an important role in the pathogenesis of NIFID.
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