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Afonso GJM, Cavaleiro C, Valero J, Mota SI, Ferreiro E. Recent Advances in Extracellular Vesicles in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Emergent Perspectives. Cells 2023; 12:1763. [PMID: 37443797 PMCID: PMC10340215 DOI: 10.3390/cells12131763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe and incurable neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive death of motor neurons, leading to paralysis and death. It is a rare disease characterized by high patient-to-patient heterogeneity, which makes its study arduous and complex. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as important players in the development of ALS. Thus, ALS phenotype-expressing cells can spread their abnormal bioactive cargo through the secretion of EVs, even in distant tissues. Importantly, owing to their nature and composition, EVs' formation and cargo can be exploited for better comprehension of this elusive disease and identification of novel biomarkers, as well as for potential therapeutic applications, such as those based on stem cell-derived exosomes. This review highlights recent advances in the identification of the role of EVs in ALS etiopathology and how EVs can be promising new therapeutic strategies.
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- Gonçalo J. M. Afonso
- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal; (G.J.M.A.); (C.C.)
- Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal
- III-Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal; (G.J.M.A.); (C.C.)
- Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal
- III-Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
- Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain
- Department of Cell Biology and Pathology, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal; (G.J.M.A.); (C.C.)
- Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal
- III-Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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- CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal; (G.J.M.A.); (C.C.)
- Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal
- III-Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
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Broom WJ, Johnson DV, Garber M, Andersen PM, Lennon N, Landers J, Nusbaum C, Russ C, Brown RH. DNA sequence analysis of the conserved region around the SOD1 gene locus in recessively inherited ALS. Neurosci Lett 2009; 463:64-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2009] [Revised: 07/06/2009] [Accepted: 07/06/2009] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Stage Dependent Effects of Progesterone on Motoneurons and Glial Cells of Wobbler Mouse Spinal Cord Degeneration. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2009; 30:123-35. [DOI: 10.1007/s10571-009-9437-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2009] [Accepted: 07/20/2009] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Broom WJ, Johnson DV, Auwarter KE, Iafrate AJ, Russ C, Al-Chalabi A, Sapp PC, McKenna-Yasek D, Andersen PM, Brown RH. SOD1A4V-mediated ALS: absence of a closely linked modifier gene and origination in Asia. Neurosci Lett 2007; 430:241-5. [PMID: 18055113 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2007] [Revised: 10/17/2007] [Accepted: 11/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) accounts for 10% of all ALS. Approximately 20% of cases are due to mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1). In North America, SOD1(A4V) is the most common SOD1 mutation. Carriers of the SOD1(A4V) mutation share a common phenotype with rapid disease progression and death on average occurring at 1.4 years (versus 3-5 years with other dominant SOD1 mutations). Previous studies of SOD1(A4V) carriers identified a common haplotype around the SOD1 locus, suggesting a common founder for most SOD1(A4V) patients. In the current study we sequenced the entire common haplotypic region around SOD1 to test the hypothesis that polymorphisms in either previously undescribed coding regions or non-coding regions around SOD1 are responsible for the more aggressive phenotype in SOD1(A4V)-mediated ALS. We narrowed the conserved region around the SOD1 gene in SOD1(A4V) ALS to 2.8Kb and identified five novel SNPs therein. None of these variants was specifically found in all SOD1(A4V) patients. It therefore appears likely that the aggressive nature of the SOD1(A4V) mutation is not a result of a modifying factor within the region around the SOD1 gene. Founder analysis estimates that the A4V mutation occurred 540 generations (approximately 12,000 years) ago (95% CI 480-700). The conserved minimal haplotype is statistically more similar to Asian than European population DNA sets, suggesting that the A4V mutation arose in native Asian-Americans who reached the Americas through the Bering Strait.
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- W J Broom
- Day Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, 114 16th Street, Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Simpson CL, Al-Chalabi A. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as a complex genetic disease. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2006; 1762:973-85. [PMID: 16973338 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2006.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2006] [Revised: 07/25/2006] [Accepted: 08/02/2006] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In complex diseases like ALS, there are multiple genetic and environmental factors all contributing to disease liability. The genetic factors causing susceptibility to developing ALS can be considered a spectrum from single genes with large effect sizes causing classical Mendelian ALS, to genes of smaller effect, producing apparently sporadic disease. We examine the statistical genetic principles that underpin this model and review what is known about ALS as a disease with complex genetics.
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- Claire L Simpson
- MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research P 043, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK
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Broom WJ, Russ C, Sapp PC, McKenna-Yasek D, Hosler BA, Andersen PM, Brown RH. Variants in candidate ALS modifier genes linked to Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase do not explain divergent survival phenotypes. Neurosci Lett 2005; 392:52-7. [PMID: 16174551 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.08.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2005] [Revised: 08/25/2005] [Accepted: 08/26/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) accounts for 10% of all ALS cases; approximately 25% are due to mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1). In North America, SOD1(A4V) is the most common SOD1 mutation. A4V ALS cases typically have a very short survival (1-1.5 years versus 3-5 years for other dominant SOD1 mutations). A recent study of A4V carriers identified a common haplotype around the SOD1 locus, suggesting the hypothesis that genetic variations within the haplotypic region might accelerate the course of A4V cases. By contrast, SOD1(D90A/D90A) ALS cases have a very slow progression (>10 years), raising the reciprocal hypothesis that modifier genes linked to SOD1 ameliorate the phenotype of recessively inherited SOD1(D90A/D90A) mutations. In the present study, DNA sequencing of four genes within the haplotypic region shared in A4V and D90A ALS patients revealed 15 novel variants, but none result in changes in amino acid sequences specifically associated with SOD1(D90A/D90A) or SOD1(A4V) ALS. We conclude that mutations within coding regions of genes around the SOD1 locus are not responsible for the more aggressive and more benign natures of the SOD1(A4V) and SOD1(D90A/D90A) mutations, respectively.
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- Wendy J Broom
- Day Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, 114 16th Street, Navy Yard, Charlestown, 02129, USA.
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Ohi T, Nabeshima K, Kato S, Yazawa S, Takechi S. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with His46Arg mutation in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase presenting characteristic clinical features and Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions. J Neurol Sci 2005; 225:19-25. [PMID: 15465081 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2004.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2004] [Revised: 06/15/2004] [Accepted: 06/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We evaluated the characteristic clinical features of one family of familial amyotrophic sclerosis (FALS) with a His46Arg mutation in the enzyme Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1). Codon 46 encodes the binding site for copper and the His46Arg mutation may result in decreased copper binding and copper toxicity. The disease duration of this family was 17.8+/-13.2 years (mean+/-S.D.) with the age at onset being 42.9+/-4.7 years old (mean+/-S.D.). The initial sign was distal weakness of the unilateral lower limb, extending to the other lower limb. An autopsy was performed on a 62-year-old female member of the family who had the mutation. Her disease duration was 23 years, and she died of tonsillar herniation caused by metastasis of colon cancer in the cerebellum. Neuropathological findings showed marked loss of large anterior horn cells and very mild degeneration of corticospinal tracts as well as posterior columns. The number of nuclei of Clark's column was reduced. Lewy body-like hyaline inclusion bodies (LBHIs) were frequently seen in the remaining anterior horn cells. Astrocytic hyaline inclusions (Ast-HIs) were also seen. This is the first autopsy report of FALS with a His46Arg mutation presenting neuronal LBHIs and Ast-HIs. The formation of LBHIs and Ast-HIs may be dependent on the phenotype of the preferential lower motor neuron involvement in FALS with a SOD mutation and long disease duration.
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- Takekazu Ohi
- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki University School of Medicine, 5200 Kihara Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan.
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Mayeux V, Corcia P, Besson G, Jafari-Schluep HF, Briolotti V, Camu W. N19S, a new SOD1 mutation in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: no evidence for disease causation. Ann Neurol 2003; 53:815-8. [PMID: 12783432 DOI: 10.1002/ana.10605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In a group of 331 sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases, we identified a new Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase single base substitution, N19S, in two patients. In the first case, seven healthy family members of 15 carried the substitution. Controls (n = 268) and familial ALS index cases (n = 180) were screened and one control subject with N19S was identified. Our data show that, despite a possible role of susceptibility factor for ALS, N19S alone cannot be considered as a direct cause for the disease.
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- Véronique Mayeux
- Equipe clinique et génétique des maladies du motoneurone U336, Institut de Biologie, Montpellier, France
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Ohi T, Saita K, Takechi S, Nabesima K, Tashiro H, Shiomi K, Sugimoto S, Akematsu T, Nakayama T, Iwaki T, Matsukura S, Saita K. Clinical features and neuropathological findings of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a His46Arg mutation in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase. J Neurol Sci 2002; 197:73-8. [PMID: 11997070 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(02)00054-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We examined the characteristic clinical features of one family of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) with a His46Arg mutation in the enzyme Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1). The disease duration for this family was 18.1 +/- 13.2 (mean +/- S.D.) years, with the age at onset being 39.7 +/- 10.5 years old (mean +/- S.D.). The initial sign was distal weakness of the unilateral lower limb, extending to the lower limb of the other side. A wheel chair became necessary at 9.8 +/- 3.2 years after the onset. Upper limb weakness started at 15.5 +/- 8.9 years following from the onset. An autopsy was performed on a 71-year-old woman of the family with the mutation. Her disease duration was 47 years, and she died of pneumonia. She had no clear upper motor neuron involvement. Bulbar sign and respiratory muscle weakness had developed 2 years before her death. Neuropathological findings showed degeneration of corticospinal tracts, anterior/posterior spinocerebellar tracts, posterior columns, and Clarke's columns. There were few anterior horn cells in the lumbar spinal cord and no Lewy body-like hyaline inclusion bodies in these remaining anterior horn neurons. This is the first autopsy report of FALS with a His46Arg mutation in the SOD1 enzyme.
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- Takekazu Ohi
- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki-gun, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan.
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Roe JA, Wiedau-Pazos M, Moy VN, Goto JJ, Gralla EB, Valentine JS. In vivo peroxidative activity of FALS-mutant human CuZnSODs expressed in yeast. Free Radic Biol Med 2002; 32:169-74. [PMID: 11796206 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-5849(01)00778-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of motor neurons. We previously characterized the enhanced peroxidative activity of the human familial ALS (FALS) mutants of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) A4V and G93A in vitro. Here, a similar activity is demonstrated for human FALS CuZnSOD mutants in an in vivo model system, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Spin trap adducts of alpha-(pyridyl-4-N-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone (POBN) have been measured by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in yeast expressing mutant (A4V, L38V, G93A, and G93C) and wild type CuZnSOD upon addition of hydrogen peroxide to the culture. The trapped radical is a hydroxyethyl adduct of POBN, identified by spectral parameters. Mutant CuZnSODs produced greater concentrations of the trapped adduct compared to the wild type enzyme. This observation provides evidence for an oxidative radical mechanism, whereby the mutants of CuZnSOD catalyze the formation of reactive oxygen species that may be related to the development or progression of FALS. This study also presents an in vivo model system to study free radical production in FALS-associated CuZnSOD mutations.
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- James A Roe
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045-8225, USA.
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Whittal RM, Ball HL, Cohen FE, Burlingame AL, Prusiner SB, Baldwin MA. Copper binding to octarepeat peptides of the prion protein monitored by mass spectrometry. Protein Sci 2000; 9:332-43. [PMID: 10716185 PMCID: PMC2144551 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.2.332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) was used to measure the binding of Cu2+ ions to synthetic peptides corresponding to sections of the sequence of the mature prion protein (PrP). ESI-MS demonstrates that Cu2+ is unique among divalent metal ions in binding to PrP and defines the location of the major Cu2+ binding site as the octarepeat region in the N-terminal domain, containing multiple copies of the repeat ProHisGlyGlyGlyTrpGlyGln. The stoichiometries of the complexes measured directly by ESI-MS are pH dependent: a peptide containing four octarepeats chelates two Cu2+ ions at pH 6 but four at pH 7.4. At the higher pH, the binding of multiple Cu2+ ions occurs with a high degree of cooperativity for peptides C-terminally extended to incorporate a fifth histidine. Dissociation constants for each Cu2+ ion binding to the octarepeat peptides, reported here for the first time, are mostly in the low micromolar range; for the addition of the third and fourth Cu2+ ions to the extended peptides at pH 7.4, K(D)'s are <100 nM. N-terminal acetylation of the peptides caused some reduction in the stoichiometry of binding at both pH's. Cu2+ also binds to a peptide corresponding to the extreme N-terminus of PrP that precedes the octarepeats, arguing that this region of the sequence may also make a contribution to the Cu2+ complexation. Although the structure of the four-octarepeat peptide is not affected by pH changes in the absence of Cu2+, as judged by circular dichroism, Cu2+ binding induces a modest change at pH 6 and a major structural perturbation at pH 7.4. It is possible that PrP functions as a Cu2+ transporter by binding Cu2+ ions from the extracellular medium under physiologic conditions and then releasing some or all of this metal upon exposure to acidic pH in endosomes or secondary lysosomes.
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- R M Whittal
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 94143-0446, USA
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Valentine JS, Hart PJ, Gralla EB. Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase and ALS. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1999; 448:193-203. [PMID: 10079827 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4859-1_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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- J S Valentine
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA 90095-1569, USA
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Lee JP, Palfrey HC, Bindokas VP, Ghadge GD, Ma L, Miller RJ, Roos RP. The role of immunophilins in mutant superoxide dismutase-1linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:3251-6. [PMID: 10077670 PMCID: PMC15928 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.6.3251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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It has been reported that expression of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS)-associated mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD) induces apoptosis of neuronal cells in culture associated with an increase in reactive oxygen species. SOD recently has been shown to prevent calcineurin inactivation, initiating the present investigations examining the role of calcineurin in mutant SOD-induced cell death. Wild-type or mutant SOD was expressed in neuronal cells by infection with replication-deficient adenoviruses. PC12 cells overexpressing human wild-type SOD exhibited higher calcineurin activity than cells expressing FALS-related mutant SOD (SODV148G); however, cells expressing SODV148G had calcineurin activity equal to mock-infected cells, suggesting that cell death induced by mutant SOD was not related to a decrease in calcineurin activity. Calcineurin antagonists such as cyclosporin A and FK506, as well as nonimmunosuppressant analogs of cyclosporin A, significantly enhanced SODV148G- and SODA4V-induced cell death. Because both groups of drugs inhibit the rotamase activity of cyclophilins (CyP), but only the immunosuppressant analogs inhibit calcineurin activity, these data suggest that rotamase inhibition underlies the enhanced cell death after SODV148G expression. The importance of rotamase activity in mutant SOD-mediated apoptosis was supported by experiments showing that overexpressed wild-type cyclophilin A (CyPA), but not CyPA with a rotamase active site point mutation, protected cells from death after SODV148G expression. These data suggest that mutant SOD produces a greater need for rotamase and, also, highlights possible new therapeutic strategies in FALS.
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- J P Lee
- Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, 947 East 58th Street, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Cudkowicz ME, McKenna-Yasek D, Chen C, Hedley-Whyte ET, Brown RH. Limited corticospinal tract involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis subjects with the A4V mutation in the copper/zinc superoxide dismutase gene. Ann Neurol 1998; 43:703-10. [PMID: 9629839 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We examined 11 subjects with inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, FALS) associated with the most common copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mutation, an alanine for valine substitution in codon 4 (A4V). Autopsies were performed on 5 subjects. The clinical and pathological findings are described and compared with those of 9 sporadic ALS (SALS) subjects. There was no clinical evidence of upper motor neuron (UMN) involvement in 10 FALS A4V subjects. All subjects had lower motor neuron (LMN) signs and electrophysiological evidence of denervation in at least three limbs. All SALS subjects had signs of both UMN and LMN involvement. Pathological studies found severe abnormalities of LMNs in all FALS and SALS subjects. UMN involvement was either absent or mild in the A4V SOD1 FALS subjects and severe in the SALS subjects. Pathological abnormalities in systems other than the motor neurons were more frequent in the FALS A4V subjects. This information suggests that current diagnostic criteria for ALS, requiring dinical evidence for both upper and lower motor neuron involvement, should be modified; ie, the diagnosis should be deemed established when there is evidence of denervation in three or more limbs and a mutation in the gene for SOD1, even without dinical signs of UMN involvement.
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- M E Cudkowicz
- Day Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA
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Allen RG. Oxidative stress and superoxide dismutase in development, aging and gene regulation. AGE 1998; 21:47-76. [PMID: 23604352 PMCID: PMC3455717 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-998-0007-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Free radicals and other reactive oxygen species are produced in the metabolic pathways of aerobic cells and affect a number of biological processes. Oxidation reactions have been postulated to play a role in aging, a number of degenerative diseases, differentiation and development as well as serving as subcellular messengers in gene regulatory and signal transduction pathways. The discovery of the activity of superoxide dismutase is a seminal work in free radical biology, because it established that free radicals were generated by cells and because it made removal of a specific free radical substance possible for the first time, which greatly accelerated research in this area. In this review, the role of reactive oxygen in aging, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a neurodegenerative disease), development, differentiation, and signal transduction are discussed. Emphasis is also given to the role of superoxide dismutases in these phenomena.
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Hart PJ, Liu H, Pellegrini M, Nersissian AM, Gralla EB, Valentine JS, Eisenberg D. Subunit asymmetry in the three-dimensional structure of a human CuZnSOD mutant found in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Protein Sci 1998; 7:545-55. [PMID: 9541385 PMCID: PMC2143953 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The X-ray crystal structure of a human copper/zinc superoxide dismutase mutant (G37R CuZnSOD) found in some patients with the inherited form of Lou Gehrig's disease (FALS) has been determined to 1.9 angstroms resolution. The two SOD subunits have distinct environments in the crystal and are different in structure at their copper binding sites. One subunit (subunit[intact]) shows a four-coordinate ligand geometry of the copper ion, whereas the other subunit (subunit[broken]) shows a three-coordinate geometry of the copper ion. Also, subunit(intact) displays higher atomic displacement parameters for backbone atoms ((B) = 30 +/- 10 angstroms2) than subunit(broken) ((B) = 24 +/- 11 angstroms2). This structure is the first CuZnSOD to show large differences between the two subunits. Factors that may contribute to these differences are discussed and a possible link of a looser structure to FALS is suggested.
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- P J Hart
- UCLA-DOE Laboratory of Structural Biology and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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Shibata N, Kobayashi M. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase mutation. Neuropathology 1997. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.1997.tb00050.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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