Alpha-synuclein fibrils amplified from multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease patient brain spread after intracerebral injection into mouse brain

Zhang, Shuyu; Dauer, Karina; Strohaeker, Timo; Tatenhorst, Lars; Gomes, Lucas Caldi; Mayer, Simon; Jung, Byung Chul; Kim, Woojin S. S.; Lee, Seung-Jae; Becker, Stefan; Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike; Zweckstetter, Markus und Lingor, Paul (2023): Alpha-synuclein fibrils amplified from multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease patient brain spread after intracerebral injection into mouse brain. In: Brain Pathology

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are neurodegenerative disorders with alpha-synuclein (& alpha;-syn) aggregation pathology. Different strains of & alpha;-syn with unique properties are suggested to cause distinct clinical and pathological manifestations resulting in PD, MSA, or DLB. To study individual & alpha;-syn spreading patterns, we injected & alpha;-syn fibrils amplified from brain homogenates of two MSA patients and two PD patients into the brains of C57BI6/J mice. Antibody staining against pS129-& alpha;-syn showed that & alpha;-syn fibrils amplified from the brain homogenates of the four different patients caused different levels of & alpha;-syn spreading. The strongest & alpha;-syn pathology was triggered by & alpha;-syn fibrils of one of the two MSA patients, followed by comparable pS129-& alpha;-syn induction by the second MSA and one PD patient material. Histological analysis using an antibody against Iba1 further showed that the formation of pS129-& alpha;-syn is associated with increased microglia activation. In contrast, no differences in dopaminergic neuron numbers or co-localization of & alpha;-syn in oligodendrocytes were observed between the different groups. Our data support the spreading of & alpha;-syn pathology in MSA, while at the same time pointing to spreading heterogeneity between different patients potentially driven by individual patient immanent factors.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin > Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• Sprache: Englisch
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 390857198