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Altered ceramide metabolism is a feature in the extracellular vesicle mediated spread of alpha-synuclein in sporadic and GBA-linked Lewy body disease

ABSTRACT: Mutations in glucocerebrosidase (GBA) are the most prevalent genetic risk factor for Lewy body disorders (LBD) – collectively Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Despite this genetic association, it remains unclear how GBA mutation contributes to the susceptibility of developing LBD. We investigated relationships between LBD-specific glucocerebrosidase deficits, GBA-related pathways, and α-synuclein levels in post-mortem brain tissue from LBD and controls with and without GBA mutations. Our study shows that LBD brains, regardless of GBA mutations, are characterised by altered sphingolipid metabolism, with prominent changes in ceramide species. Since extracellular vesicles (EV) could be involved in LBD pathogenesis by spreading disease linked lipids and proteins, we investigated EV derived from post-mortem cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain tissue from GBA mutation carriers and non-carriers. EV purified from LBD post-mortem CSF and frontal cortex are heavily loaded with ceramides and neurodegeneration-linked proteins including alpha-synuclein and amyloid precursor protein. Our in vitro studies demonstrate that LBD EV constitute a “pathological package” capable of inducing aggregation of wild type alpha-synuclein, potentially through a combination of alpha-synuclein-ceramide interaction and the presence of pathological forms of alpha-synuclein. Together our findings indicate that abnormalities in ceramide metabolism are a feature of LBD, constituting a promising source of biomarkers. GBA mutation likely accelerates the pathological process occurring in sporadic LBD, probably through endolysosomal deficiency, but does not induce alpha-synucleinopathy since healthy normal GBA mutation carriers without alpha-synuclein pathology occur.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive HF

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Frontal Lobe

DISEASE(S): Lewy Body Dementia

SUBMITTER: Ivo Fabrik

LAB HEAD: Matthias Trost

PROVIDER: PXD026980 | Pride | 2021-11-02

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Altered ceramide metabolism is a feature in the extracellular vesicle-mediated spread of alpha-synuclein in Lewy body disorders.

Kurzawa-Akanbi Marzena M Tammireddy Seshu S Fabrik Ivo I Gliaudelytė Lina L Doherty Mary K MK Heap Rachel R Matečko-Burmann Irena I Burmann Björn M BM Burmann Björn M BM Trost Matthias M Lucocq John M JM Gherman Anda V AV Fairfoul Graham G Singh Preeti P Burté Florence F Green Alison A McKeith Ian G IG Härtlova Anetta A Whitfield Phillip D PD Morris Christopher M CM

Acta neuropathologica 20210913 6

Mutations in glucocerebrosidase (GBA) are the most prevalent genetic risk factor for Lewy body disorders (LBD)-collectively Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Despite this genetic association, it remains unclear how GBA mutations increase susceptibility to develop LBD. We investigated relationships between LBD-specific glucocerebrosidase deficits, GBA-related pathways, and α-synuclein levels in brain tissue from LBD and controls, with and without GBA ...[more]

PMID: 34514546

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Project description:Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor symptoms and alpha-synuclein (αsyn) aggregation in the nervous system. For unclear reasons, PD patients with certain GBA mutations (GBA-PD) have a more aggressive clinical progression. Two testable hypotheses that can potentially account for this phenomenon are that GBA1 mutations promote αsyn spread or drive the generation of highly pathogenic αsyn polymorphs (i.e., strains). We tested these hypotheses by treating homozygous GBA1 D409V knockin (KI) mice with human α-syn-preformed fibrils (PFFs) and treating wild-type mice (WT) with several αsyn-PFF polymorphs amplified from brain autopsy samples collected from patients with idiopathic PD and GBA-PD patients with either homozygous or heterozygous GBA1 mutations. Robust phosphorylated-αsyn (PSER129) positive pathology was observed at the injection site (i.e., the olfactory bulb granular layer) and throughout the brain six months following PFF injection. The PFF seeding efficiency and degree of spread were similar regardless of the mouse genotype or PFF polymorphs. We found that PFFs amplified from the human brain, regardless of patient genotype, were generally more effective seeders than wholly synthetic PFFs (i.e., non-amplified); however, PFF concentration differed between these two studies, and this might also account for the observed differences. To investigate whether the molecular composition of pathology differed between different seeding conditions, we permed Biotinylation by Antibody Recognition on PSER129 (BAR-PSER129). We found that for BAR-PSER129, the endogenous PSER129 pool dominated identified interactions, and thus, very few potential interactions were explicitly identified for seeded pathology. However, we found Dctn2 interaction was shared across all PFF conditions, and Nckap1 and Ap3b2 were unique to PFFs amplified from GBA-PD brains of heterozygous mutation carriers. In conclusion, both the genotype and αsyn strain had little effect on overall seeding efficacy and global PSER129-interactions.

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Altered ceramide metabolism is a feature in the extracellular vesicle mediated spread of alpha-synuclein in sporadic and GBA-linked Lewy body disease

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Altered ceramide metabolism is a feature in the extracellular vesicle-mediated spread of alpha-synuclein in Lewy body disorders.

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