Quaternary structure of patient-homogenate amplified alpha-synuclein fibrils modulates seeding of endogenous alpha-synuclein
Autor: | Benedikt Frieg, James A. Geraets, Timo Strohäker, Christian Dienemann, Panagiota Mavroeidi, Byung Chul Jung, Woojin S. Kim, Seung-Jae Lee, Maria Xilouri, Markus Zweckstetter, Gunnar F. Schröder |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Synucleinopathies
Cryoelectron Microscopy Medicine (miscellaneous) Parkinson Disease Multiple System Atrophy General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Mice chemistry [alpha-Synuclein] ddc:570 pathology [Multiple System Atrophy] alpha-Synuclein Animals metabolism [alpha-Synuclein] General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
Zdroj: | Communications biology 5(1), 1040 (2022). doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03948-y Communications Biology |
ISSN: | 2399-3642 |
Popis: | Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are progressive and unremitting neurological diseases that are neuropathologically characterized by α-synuclein inclusions. Increasing evidence supports the aggregation of α-synuclein in specific brain areas early in the disease course, followed by the spreading of α-synuclein pathology to multiple brain regions. However, little is known about how the structure of α-synuclein fibrils influence its ability to seed endogenous α-synuclein in recipient cells. Here, we aggregated α-synuclein by seeding with homogenates of PD- and MSA-confirmed brain tissue, determined the resulting α-synuclein fibril structures by cryo-electron microscopy, and characterized their seeding potential in mouse primary oligodendroglial cultures. The combined analysis shows that the two patient material-amplified α-synuclein fibrils share a similar protofilament fold but differ in their inter-protofilament interface and their ability to recruit endogenous α-synuclein. Our study indicates that the quaternary structure of α-synuclein fibrils modulates the seeding of α-synuclein pathology inside recipient cells. It thus provides an important advance in the quest to understand the connection between the structure of α-synuclein fibrils, cellular seeding/spreading, and ultimately the clinical manifestations of different synucleinopathies. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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