期刊
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
卷 44, 期 4, 页码 1303-1312出版社
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-140141
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; antibody microarray; ApoD; apoptosis; Cdk5; cerebrospinal fluid; granzyme B; MGMT; PAR-4; parkin; POLG
资金
- European Union
- State of Hungary
- European Social Fund [TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001]
- OTKA [83667]
- Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture [TAMOP -4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0052]
- Hungarian Brain Research Program [KTIA_13_NAP-A-II/16]
Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relying on symptomatic features has a low specificity, emphasizing the importance of the pragmatic use of neurochemical biomarkers. The most advanced and reliable markers are amyloid-beta (A beta(42)), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with relatively high levels of sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy. Recent advances within the field of proteomics offer the potential to search for novel biomarkers in CSF by using modern methods, such as microarrays. The purpose of this study was to identify pathognostic proteins in CSF obtained from patients whose clinical AD diagnosis was confirmed by the core biomarkers. CSF samples were obtained from 25 AD patients and 25 control individuals. The levels of A beta(42), t-tau, and p-tau were measured by ELISA. In the microarray experiments, ultrasensitive slides representing of 653 antigens were used. Apolipoprotein E genotyping was also determined. A decrease of seven CSF proteins in AD were found, four of them (POLG, MGMT, parkin, and ApoD) have a protective function against neuronal death, while the remaining three proteins (PAR-4, granzyme B, Cdk5) trigger multiple pathways facilitating neuronal cell death. Since these proteins from CSF samples could not be identified by western blot, their decreased levels in AD patients were not verified. Our results provide new information of pathognostic importance of POLG and granzyme B in AD. Although the function of MGMT, parkin, ApoD, PAR-4, and Cdk5 was previously known in AD, the findings presented here provide novel evidence of the significance of CSF analysis in the mapping of the AD pathomechanism.
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