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Mustonen T, Holkeri A, Holmström M, Atula S, Pakarinen S, Lehmonen L, Kiuru-Enari S, Aro AL. Cardiac manifestations in Finnish gelsolin amyloidosis patients. Amyloid 2021; 28:168-172. [PMID: 33877023 DOI: 10.1080/13506129.2021.1911798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Finnish gelsolin amyloidosis (AGel amyloidosis) is an inherited systemic amyloidosis with well-known ophthalmological, neurological and cutaneous symptoms. Additionally, cardiomyopathies, conduction disorders and need of cardiac pacemakers occur in some patients. This study focuses on electrocardiographic (ECG) findings in AGel amyloidosis and their relation to cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) changes. We also assessed whether ECG abnormalities were associated with pacemaker implantation and mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cohort study, 51 genetically verified AGel amyloidosis patients (mean age 66 years) without cardiac pacemakers underwent 12-lead ECG and CMR imaging with contrast agent in 2017. Patients were followed-up for 3 years. RESULTS Conduction disturbances were found in 22 patients (43%). Nine (18%) presented with first-degree atrioventricular block, six (12%) with left anterior hemiblock, seven (14%) with left or right bundle branch block and two (4%) with non-specific intraventricular conduction delay. Low QRS voltage was present in two (4%) patients. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) concentrating on the interventricular septum and inferior parts of the heart was present in 19 (86%) patients with conduction abnormalities. During the follow-up, only one patient received a pacemaker, and one patient died. DISCUSSION Conduction disorders and septal LGE are common in AGel amyloidosis, whereas other ECG and CMR findings typically observed in most common cardiac amyloidosis types were rare. Septal pathology seen in CMR may interfere with the cardiac conduction system in AGel amyloidosis, explaining conduction disorders, although pacemaker therapy is rarely required.
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- Tuuli Mustonen
- Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- HUS Medical Imaging Center, Radiology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- HUS Medical Imaging Center, Radiology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Trottier AM, Godley LA. Inherited predisposition to haematopoietic malignancies: overcoming barriers and exploring opportunities. Br J Haematol 2020; 194:663-676. [PMID: 33615436 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.17247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Inherited predisposition to haematopoietic malignancies, due to deleterious germline variants in a variety of genes, is an important clinical entity with implications for the health and management of patients and their family members. Unfortunately, there remain several common misconceptions in this field that can result in patients going unrecognised and/or having incomplete or improper testing including: the impression that inherited haematological malignancy syndromes are rare, that myeloid and lymphoid malignancy predisposition syndromes are mutually exclusive, and that solid tumour predisposition syndromes are unique and distinct from haematopoietic malignancy predisposition syndromes. In the present review, we challenge these ideas with our insights into germline genetic testing for these conditions with the hope that increased awareness and knowledge will overcome barriers and lead to improved diagnosis and management.
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- Amy M Trottier
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, QEII Health Sciences Centre/Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Section of Hematology/Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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The heart, like any organ in the body, is susceptible to amyloid deposition. Although more than 30 types of protein can cause amyloidosis, only two types commonly deposit in the ventricular myocardium: amyloid light chain and amyloid transthyretin. Amyloid cardiomyopathy is usually a major determinant of patient outcomes, and the diagnosis of heart involvement can be often relatively under-diagnosed, owing to nonspecific presenting symptoms and signs at a subclinical stage. The diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis is usually performed by endomyocardial biopsy; however, the invasive nature and related high-risk complications restrict its wide use in clinical settings. Recently, with the advent of innovative techniques used for evaluating cardiac amyloidosis, noninvasive methods become increasingly important, especially in earlier diagnosis, distinguishing typing, risk prediction and response to treatment. Here, we will review recent developments in the noninvasive methods used in the assessment of cardiac amyloidosis, focused on the laboratory biomarkers and imaging modalities.
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- Lei Zhao
- Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Wangfujing, Dongcheng district, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Wangfujing, Dongcheng district, Beijing, 100730, China.
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Lavatelli F, Merlini G. Advances in proteomic study of cardiac amyloidosis: progress and potential. Expert Rev Proteomics 2016; 13:1017-1027. [PMID: 27678147 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2016.1242417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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INTRODUCTION More than ten distinct forms of amyloidoses that can involve the heart have been described, classified according to which protein originates the deposits. Cardiac amyloid infiltration translates into progressive and often life-threatening cardiomyopathy, but disease severity, prognosis and treatment drastically differ according to the amyloidosis type. The notion that protein misfolding and aggregation play a more general role in human cardiomyopathies has further raised attention towards the definition of the proteotoxicity mechanisms. Areas covered: Mass spectrometry-based proteomics plays an important role as a diagnostic tool and for understanding the molecular bases of amyloid cardiomyopathies. The landscape of applications of proteomics to the study of cardiac amyloidoses and amyloid-related cardiotoxicity is summarized, with a critical synthesis of the major achievements. Expert commentary: Current strengths and limitations of proteomics in the clinical setting and in translational research on amyloid cardiomyopathy are discussed, with the foreseen potential future directions in the field.
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- Francesca Lavatelli
- a Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center , Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, and University of Pavia , Pavia , Italy
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- a Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center , Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, and University of Pavia , Pavia , Italy
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Nizhnikov AA, Antonets KS, Inge-Vechtomov SG. Amyloids: from Pathogenesis to Function. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2016; 80:1127-44. [PMID: 26555466 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297915090047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The term "amyloids" refers to fibrillar protein aggregates with cross-β structure. They have been a subject of intense scrutiny since the middle of the previous century. First, this interest is due to association of amyloids with dozens of incurable human diseases called amyloidoses, which affect hundreds of millions of people. However, during the last decade the paradigm of amyloids as pathogens has changed due to an increase in understanding of their role as a specific variant of quaternary protein structure essential for the living cell. Thus, functional amyloids are found in all domains of the living world, and they fulfill a variety of roles ranging from biofilm formation in bacteria to long-term memory regulation in higher eukaryotes. Prions, which are proteins capable of existing under the same conditions in two or more conformations at least one of which having infective properties, also typically have amyloid features. There are weighty reasons to believe that the currently known amyloids are only a minority of their real number. This review provides a retrospective analysis of stages in the development of amyloid biology that during the last decade resulted, on one hand, in reinterpretation of the biological role of amyloids, and on the other hand, in the development of systems biology of amyloids, or amyloidomics.
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- A A Nizhnikov
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
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Maleszewski JJ. Cardiac amyloidosis: pathology, nomenclature, and typing. Cardiovasc Pathol 2015; 24:343-50. [PMID: 26361138 DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2015.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2015] [Revised: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Amyloidosis is an increasingly recognized cause of heart disease, caused by the deposition of misfolded protein within the heart. These proteins may deposit systemically and include the heart or deposit only within the heart muscle itself. In either case, cardiac symptoms may be the primary manifestation. The diagnosis is usually made by the pathologist identifying amyloid within a tissue sample. The diagnosis, however, does not end with such visual recognition of the presence of amyloid. Newer generation pharmacotherapeutic agents that are protein specific necessitate a closer evaluation to determine the type of protein being deposited and accurately conveying this to the treating clinician. Herein, the gross and histopathologic features of cardiac amyloidosis are reviewed along with a review of amyloid typing strategies (both direct and indirect) that may be employed in the diagnostic workup as well as the nomenclature standards for reporting.
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- Joseph J Maleszewski
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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Hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis (HGA) is an autosomally dominantly inherited form of systemic amyloidosis, characterized mainly by cranial and sensory peripheral neuropathy, corneal lattice dystrophy, and cutis laxa. HGA, originally reported from Finland and now increasingly from other countries in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, may still be underdiagnosed worldwide. It is the first and so-far only known disorder caused by a gelsolin gene defect, namely a G654A or G654T mutation. Gelsolin is a principal actin-modulating protein, implicated in multiple biological processes, also in the nervous system, e.g. axonal transport, myelination, neurite outgrowth, and neuroprotection. The gelsolin gene defect causes expression of variant gelsolin, followed by systemic deposition of gelsolin amyloid (AGel) in HGA patients and even other consequences on the metabolism and function of gelsolin. In HGA, specific therapy is not yet available but correct diagnosis enables adequate symptomatic treatment which decisively improves the quality of life in these patients. A transgenic murine model of HGA expressing AGel is available, in anticipation of new treatment options targeted toward this slowly progressive but devastating amyloidosis. Present and future lessons learned from HGA may be applicable even in diagnosis and treatment of other hereditary and sporadic amyloidoses.
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- Sari Kiuru-Enari
- Department of Neurology, Unit for Neuromuscular Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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Guan J, Mishra S, Falk RH, Liao R. Current perspectives on cardiac amyloidosis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2011; 302:H544-52. [PMID: 22058156 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00815.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Amyloidosis represents a group of diseases in which proteins undergo misfolding to form insoluble fibrils with subsequent tissue deposition. While almost all deposited amyloid fibers share a common nonbranched morphology, the affected end organs, clinical presentation, treatment strategies, and prognosis vary greatly among this group of diseases and are largely dependent on the specific amyloid precursor protein. To date, at least 27 precursor proteins have been identified to result in either local tissue or systemic amyloidosis, with nine of them manifesting in cardiac deposition and resulting in a syndrome termed "cardiac amyloidosis" or "amyloid cardiomyopathy." Although cardiac amyloidosis has been traditionally considered to be a rare disorder, as clinical appreciation and understanding continues to grow, so too has the prevalence, suggesting that this disease may be greatly underdiagnosed. The most common form of cardiac amyloidosis is associated with circulating amyloidogenic monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain proteins. Other major cardiac amyloidoses result from a misfolding of products of mutated or wild-type transthyretin protein. While the various cardiac amyloidoses share a common functional consequence, namely, an infiltrative cardiomyopathy with restrictive pathophysiology leading to progressive heart failure, the underlying pathophysiology and clinical syndrome varies with each precursor protein. Herein, we aim to provide an up-to-date overview of cardiac amyloidosis from nomenclature to molecular mechanisms and treatment options, with a particular focus on amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chain protein cardiac amyloidosis.
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- Jian Guan
- Cardiac Muscle Research Lab., 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, NRB 431, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Collins AB, Smith RN, Stone JR. Classification of amyloid deposits in diagnostic cardiac specimens by immunofluorescence. Cardiovasc Pathol 2009; 18:205-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 05/29/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Park S, Saven JG. Simulation of pH-dependent edge strand rearrangement in human beta-2 microglobulin. Protein Sci 2005; 15:200-7. [PMID: 16322574 PMCID: PMC2242376 DOI: 10.1110/ps.051814306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Amyloid fibrils formed from unrelated proteins often share morphological similarities, suggesting common biophysical mechanisms for amyloidogenesis. Biochemical studies of human beta-2 microglobulin (beta2M) have shown that its transition from a water-soluble protein to insoluble aggregates can be triggered by low pH. Additionally, biophysical measurements of beta2M using NMR have identified residues of the protein that participate in the formation of amyloid fibrils. The crystal structure of monomeric human beta2M determined at pH 5.7 shows that one of its edge beta-strands (strand D) adopts a conformation that differs from other structures of the same protein obtained at higher pH. This alternate beta-strand arrangement lacks a beta-bulge, which may facilitate protein aggregation through intermolecular beta-sheet association. To explore whether the pH change may yield the observed conformational difference, molecular dynamics simulations of beta2M were performed. The effects of pH were modeled by specifying the protonation states of Asp, Glu, and His, as well as the C terminus of the main chain. The bulged conformation of strand D is preferred at medium pH (pH 5-7), whereas at low pH (pH < 4) the straight conformation is observed. Therefore, low pH may stabilize the straight conformation of edge strand D and thus increase the amyloidogenicity of beta2M.
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- Sheldon Park
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Page LJ, Suk JY, Huff ME, Lim HJ, Venable J, Yates J, Kelly JW, Balch WE. Metalloendoprotease cleavage triggers gelsolin amyloidogenesis. EMBO J 2005; 24:4124-32. [PMID: 16281052 PMCID: PMC1356312 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2005] [Accepted: 10/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Amyloid diseases like Alzheimer's disease and familial amyloidosis of Finnish type (FAF) stem from endoproteolytic cleavage of a precursor protein to generate amyloidogenic peptides that accumulate as amyloid deposits in a tissue-specific manner. FAF patients deposit both 8 and 5 kDa peptides derived from mutant (D187Y/N) plasma gelsolin in the extracellular matrix (ECM). The first of two aberrant sequential proteolytic events is executed by furin to yield a 68 kDa (C68) secreted fragment. We now identify the metalloprotease MT1-matrix metalloprotease (MMP), an integral membrane protein active in the ECM, as a protease that processes C68 to the amyloidogenic peptides. We further demonstrate that ECM components are capable of accelerating gelsolin amyloidogenesis. Proteolysis by MT1-MMP-like proteases proximal to the unique chemical environment of the ECM offers an explanation for the tissue-specific deposition observed in FAF and provides critical insight into new therapeutic strategies.
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- Lesley J Page
- Departments of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Departments of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Departments of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, BCC506, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Tel.: +1 858 784 9880; Fax: +1 858 784 9899; E-mail:
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- Departments of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, MB6, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Tel.: + 1 858 784 2310; Fax: +1 858 784 9126; E-mail:
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Conceição I, Sales-Luis ML, De Carvalho M, Evangelista T, Fernandes R, Paunio T, Kangas H, Coutinho P, Neves C, Saraiva MJ. Gelsolin-related familial amyloidosis, Finnish type, in a Portuguese family: Clinical and neurophysiological studies. Muscle Nerve 2003; 28:715-21. [PMID: 14639586 DOI: 10.1002/mus.10474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We report a Portuguese family with familial amyloid polyneuropathy related to gelsolin. There were no known Finnish ancestors, but the same mutation as described in Finnish patients (G654A) was carried. Clinical and neurophysiological investigations were performed in four patients. Corneal lattice dystrophy affected all four patients; an axonal lesion of the facial nerve occurred in three patients; visual tract involvement was documented in one case; and corticospinal and posterior column dysfunction was present in one patient. Polarizing microscopy of skin and muscle samples demonstrated amyloid deposits in two patients; anti-gelsolin immunohistochemistry was positive for amyloidogenic gelsolin. The Finnish mutation of gelsolin protein (G654A) was detected in five family members. The utility of neurophysiological testing in the evaluation and follow-up of this type of amyloidosis is discussed.
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- Isabel Conceição
- Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal.
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Kiuru-Enari S, Somer H, Seppäläinen AM, Notkola IL, Haltia M. Neuromuscular pathology in hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2002; 61:565-71. [PMID: 12071640 DOI: 10.1093/jnen/61.6.565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis (AGel amyloidosis) is a systemic disorder reported worldwide in kindreds with a G654A or G654T gelsolin gene mutation. The clinically characteristic peripheral nerve involvement has been poorly characterized morphologically, and its pathogenesis remains unknown. We studied peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle biopsy or autopsy specimens of 35 patients with a G654A gelsolin gene mutation. Histological, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic studies showed consistent deposition of gelsolin amyloid (AGel), particularly in the vascular walls and perineurial sheaths. Nerve roots were more severely affected than distal nerves. The amyloid deposits also displayed variable immunoreactivity for apolipoprotein E, amyloid P component, cystatin C, and alpha-smooth muscle actin. Sural nerve morphometry showed preferential age-related large myelinated nerve fiber loss and reduction of myelin sheath cross-sectional area. There was evidence of denervation atrophy and fiber type grouping in skeletal muscle. Our study shows that marked proximal nerve involvement with AGel angiopathy is an essential feature of AGel amyloidosis. The preferential large fiber loss, not generally seen in amyloid neuropathy, may be caused by ischemia due to AGel angiopathy. Deficient actin modulation by variant gelsolin in neurons and Schwann cells, however, may alter axonal transport and myelination and contribute to AGel polyneuropathy.
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- Sari Kiuru-Enari
- Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Chen CD, Huff ME, Matteson J, Page L, Phillips R, Kelly JW, Balch WE. Furin initiates gelsolin familial amyloidosis in the Golgi through a defect in Ca(2+) stabilization. EMBO J 2001; 20:6277-87. [PMID: 11707399 PMCID: PMC125307 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.22.6277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Hereditary familial amyloidosis of Finnish type (FAF) leading to amyloid in the peripheral and central nervous systems stems from deposition of a 71 residue fragment generated from the D187N/Y variants of plasma gelsolin by two sequential endoproteolytic events. We identify the protease accomplishing the first cleavage as furin, a proprotein convertase. Endoproteolysis of plasma gelsolin occurs in the trans-Golgi network due to the inability of the FAF variants to bind and be stabilized by Ca(2+). Secretion and processing of the FAF variants by furin can be uncoupled by blocking the convergence of the exocytic pathway transporting plasma gelsolin and the endocytic recycling of furin. We propose that coincidence of membrane trafficking pathways contributes to the development of proteolysis-initiated amyloid disease.
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- Ci-Di Chen
- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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- Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
C.-D.Chen and M.E.Huff contributed equally to this work
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Frangione B, Vidal R, Rostagno A, Ghiso J. Familial cerebral amyloid angiopathies and dementia. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 2000; 14 Suppl 1:S25-30. [PMID: 10850727 DOI: 10.1097/00002093-200000001-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Amyloidosis is a disorder of protein conformation leading to aggregation. The term defines a diverse group of proteins normally present in body fluids as soluble precursors that can be deposited as insoluble amyloid fibrils in different tissues producing organ dysfunction and cell death. These fibrils are composed of self-assembled, low molecular weight mass peptides adopting beta-pleated sheet structure, the conformation responsible for their physicochemical properties and tinctoreal characteristics. So far, 20 different proteins have been identified as subunits of amyloid fibrils (Westermark et al., 1999). Collectively, they are products of normal genes; however, several amyloid precursors contain abnormal amino acid substitutions that can impose an unusual potential for self-aggregation. The molecular mass of the amyloid peptides is within the 4 to 30-kDa range, with heterogeneity at the amino- and carboxyl-terminal portions found in most amyloid proteins. Increased levels of amyloid precursors, either in the circulation or locally in sites of deposition, are usually the result of overexpression or defective clearance, or both. Of the 20 amyloid proteins identified, few of them are known to cause amyloid deposition in the central nervous system, which in turn results in cognitive deficits, dementia, stroke, cerebellar and extrapyramidal signs, or a combination of them.
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- B Frangione
- Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA
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Stewart HS, Parveen R, Ridgway AE, Bonshek R, Black GC. Late onset lattice corneal dystrophy with systemic familial amyloidosis, amyloidosis V, in an English family. Br J Ophthalmol 2000; 84:390-4. [PMID: 10729296 PMCID: PMC1723421 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.84.4.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIMS To establish a clinical and molecular diagnosis in a family with late onset lattice corneal dystrophy. METHODS Linkage analysis, single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis, and direct sequencing of genomic DNA were performed. A review of the patients' clinical symptoms and signs was undertaken. RESULTS Linkage to chromosome 9q34 was established and a mutation in the gelsolin gene was found in affected individuals. Numerous symptoms experienced by the patients were attributable to this mutation. CONCLUSION A diagnosis of amyloidosis type V (familial amyloidosis, Finnish type, FAF/Meretoja syndrome/gelsolin related amyloidosis) was made. This is the first case of amyloidosis type V described in the UK. This emphasises the importance of recognition of the extraocular manifestations of eye disease both in the diagnosis and management of the patient. In addition, these findings can help molecular geneticists in their search for disease-causing mutations.
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- H S Stewart
- Department of Medical Genetics and Regional Genetics Service, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester M13 0JH, UK
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Maury CP, Liljeström M, Boysen G, Törnroth T, de la Chapelle A, Nurmiaho-Lassila EL. Danish type gelsolin related amyloidosis: 654G-T mutation is associated with a disease pathogenetically and clinically similar to that caused by the 654G-A mutation (familial amyloidosis of the Finnish type). J Clin Pathol 2000; 53:95-9. [PMID: 10767822 PMCID: PMC1763296 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.2.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Familial amyloidosis of the Finnish type (FAF, Finnish hereditary amyloidosis) is caused by a 654G-A mutation in the gelsolin gene on chromosome 9 resulting in the expression of mutant Asn-187 gelsolin which is abnormally proteolytically processed generating amyloidogenic fragments that polymerize into amyloid fibrils. We have recently shown that in a Danish and a Czech family with a clinical syndrome similar to FAF, including corneal lattice dystrophy, cranial neuropathy and skin changes, the disease is caused by another mutation at the same position, namely 654G-T predicting a Try-for-Asp substitution at 187 in secreted gelsolin. AIM To undertake a closer examination of the Danish subtype of FAF and report immunohistochemical and biochemical findings. RESULTS Immunostaining of plasma gelsolin isolated from heterozygous FAF of the Danish subtype revealed a pattern similar to that found in FAF-Asn 187. The > 60 kDa gelsolin species contain an epitope characteristic of the amyloid forming region as revealed by an amyloid specific antibody, whereas the approximately 50 kDa fragments are devoid of it. Compared with the wild-type gelsolin peptide (Asp-187), the corresponding mutant peptide (Tyr-187) showed dramatically increased fibrillogenicity as revealed by quantitative thioflavine-T based fluorimetry; ultrastructurally, amyloid-like fibrils were formed by the mutant peptide. Immunohistochemistry showed that antibodies directed against residues 231-242 of secreted gelsolin, representing the carboxy terminus of the sequence forming the amyloid protein (residues 173-243) laid down in the tissues in a fibrillar form in FAF, specifically labelled the amyloid deposited in rectum and skin in the Danish (654G-T) subtype. CONCLUSIONS The 654G-T mutation in the gelsolin gene gives rise to an amyloid disease clinically and pathogenetically similar to that caused by the 654G-A mutation.
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- C P Maury
- Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Kangas H, Ulmanen I, Paunio T, Kwiatkowski DJ, Lehtovirta M, Jalanko A, Peltonen L. Functional consequences of amyloidosis mutation for gelsolin polypeptide -- analysis of gelsolin-actin interaction and gelsolin processing in gelsolin knock-out fibroblasts. FEBS Lett 1999; 454:233-9. [PMID: 10431814 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00790-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Gelsolin, an actin-modulating protein, derived from a single gene exists in intracellular and secreted forms. A point mutation at position 187 of both forms of gelsolin causes familial amyloidosis of the Finnish type (FAF). Here, we expressed both isoforms of the wild-type and FAF mutant gelsolin in mouse embryonic gelsolin-null fibroblasts. We demonstrate that the FAF mutation does not interfere with the normal actin-modulating function of intracellular gelsolin, and that aberrant processing of secreted FAF gelsolin to FAF amyloid precursor takes place in the gelsolin-negative background. These results suggest that, in patients with FAF, symptoms are caused by the accumulation in their tissues of amyloid derived from plasma gelsolin and are not due to functional differences in cytoplasmic gelsolin.
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- H Kangas
- National Public Health Institute, Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Helsinki, Finland.
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Kiuru S, Nieminen T, Partinen M. Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in hereditary gelsolin-related amyloidosis. J Sleep Res 1999; 8:143-9. [PMID: 10389096 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1999.00140.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Gelsolin-related amyloidosis (AGel amyloidosis) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, reported worldwide in kindreds carrying a G654A or G654T gelsolin gene mutation. The main clinical signs are cutis laxa, cranial and peripheral neuropathy, and corneal lattice dystrophy but heavy intermittent snoring also occurs. To evaluate whether sleep apnoea is present we performed nocturnal sleep recordings, cephalometric and spirometric analyses and multiple sleep latency tests (MSLT) in five snoring patients with a G654A gelsolin gene mutation. Four patients had obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) with redundant oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal soft tissues, macroglossia and cranial neuromuscular dysfunction. The fifth patient had hypersomnia without obstructive sleep apnoea. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) was an effective treatment. This study presents the first evidence in favour of an association between AGel amyloidosis and OSAS, but further studies are needed to define the prevalence of OSAS and the pathogenetic roles of amyloid and variant gelsolin in its evolution.
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- S Kiuru
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Gelsolin-related amyloidosis (familial amyloidosis, Finnish type) is a rare disorder, reported worldwide in kindreds carrying a G654A or G654T gelsolin gene mutation. Facial palsy, mild peripheral neuropathy, and corneal lattice dystrophy are characteristic, but atrophic bulbar palsy, ataxia of gait, and minor cognitive impairment may occur. In histological and immunohistochemical studies of the central nervous system in 4 patients with a G654A gelsolin mutation, we found widespread spinal, cerebral, and meningeal amyloid angiopathy, with deposition of gelsolin-related amyloid (AGel). Marked extravascular deposits occurred in the dura, spinal nerve roots, and sensory ganglia. The amyloid deposits were also variably immunoreactive for apolipoprotein E (ApoE), alpha1-antichymotrypsin (alpha1-ACT), and cystatin C (Cys C). Cerebral perivascular fibrinogen immunoreactivity was occasionally noted. The patients showed posterior column degeneration and diffuse loss of myelin in the centrum semiovale with perivascular accentuation. Postmortem magnetic resonance imaging, performed on 1 patient, showed white matter lesions, colocalizing with the histological abnormalities. Our study shows that deposition of AGel in the spinal and cerebral blood vessel walls, meninges, as well as spinal nerve roots and sensory ganglia is an essential feature of this form of systemic amyloidosis and may contribute to the central nervous system symptoms.
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- S Kiuru
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Paunio T, Kangas H, Heinonen O, Buc-Caron MH, Robert JJ, Kaasinen S, Julkunen I, Mallet J, Peltonen L. Cells of the neuronal lineage play a major role in the generation of amyloid precursor fragments in gelsolin-related amyloidosis. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:16319-24. [PMID: 9632693 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.26.16319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Gelsolin-related amyloidosis or familial amyloidosis, Finnish type (FAF) (OMIM No105120) is a hereditary amyloid disease caused by a mutation in a precursor protein for amyloid (gelsolin) and characterized by corneal dystrophy and polyneuropathy. In vitro expression of the FAF-mutant (Asp187 --> Asn/Tyr) secretory gelsolin in COS cells leads to generation of an aberrant polypeptide presumably representing the precursor for tissue amyloid. Here, we provide evidence that this abnormal processing results from defective initial folding of the secreted FAF gelsolin due to the lack of the Cys188-Cys201 disulfide bond, normally formed next to the FAF mutation site. We compared cells of different tissue origin and discovered a dramatic difference between the amount of cleavage of FAF gelsolin to the amyloid precursor in neuronal and non-neuronal cells. More than half of the mutant gelsolin was cleaved in PC12 and in vitro differentiated human neuronal progenitor cells. In contrast, human fibroblasts and Schwannoma cell cultures showed only a limited capacity to cleave FAF gelsolin, although the cleavage mechanism per se seems to be similar in the various cell types. The present findings of processing and distribution of secreted FAF gelsolin in the neuronal cells emphasize the role of neurons in the tissue pathogenesis of this amyloid polyneuropathy.
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- T Paunio
- Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
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Gelsolin-related familial amyloidosis, Finnish type, occurs worldwide, most likely as a result of sporadic low-frequency mutations. Two mutations at nucleotide 654 in the gelsolin gene have been demonstrated, which result in a characteristic triad of ophthalmologic, neurologic and dermatologic manifestations distinct from other amyloidoses. Some phenotypic variation, particularly in the age of onset and severity of manifestations, occurs but in general the disease is clinically rather homogeneous. Systemic deposition of amyloid is found in most tissues, predominantly in blood vessel walls and associated with basement membranes. The mutations result in amino acid substitutions with a charge change in the gelsolin molecule, postulated to alter the susceptibility for proteases thereby rendering the molecule amyloidogenic. Gelsolin fragments constitute the amyloid fibrils, but abnormal fragments also occur in patients' plasma and CSF providing evidence for the role of aberrant proteolysis in the disease pathomechanism. This is further strengthened by in vitro expression analyses showing both disease-related mutations to result in secretion of an abnormal gelsolin fragment, the likely precursor protein of gelsolin amyloid. Of the two forms of gelsolin, secretory and cytoplasmic, the secretory plasma form is the likely source of amyloid. The origin of the systemic amyloid deposits is not known but, beside a circulatory origin, local synthesis and deposition is an attractive pathomechanical alternative. The final goal of preventing or curing this disease has come closer, but still awaits further comprehensive pathological, functional and experimental studies in order to dissect all pathogenetically important events.
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- S Kiuru
- Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Paunio T, Kangas H, Kiuru S, Palo J, Peltonen L, Syvänen AC. Tissue distribution and levels of gelsolin mRNA in normal individuals and patients with gelsolin-related amyloidosis. FEBS Lett 1997; 406:49-55. [PMID: 9109384 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00237-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We measured quantitatively the mRNA levels of intracellular and secretory forms of gelsolin, an actin-modulating protein, in human tissues from subjects of different ages. The intracellular gelsolin mRNA constituted the major type of gelsolin steady-state mRNA in all tissues analyzed. Both forms of gelsolin were expressed in most adult tissues, with particularly high mRNA levels in all types of muscle and interestingly in skin. Between the adult and infantile tissues the most striking difference in expression levels was found in liver, as the adult liver contained only a subtle amount of gelsolin mRNA. Skin and muscle samples from patients with gelsolin-related amyloidosis (FAF), with significantly increased concentrations of serum gelsolin, did not reveal an increased expression of the gene, and both mutant and wild-type alleles were expressed in equal amounts. The high level of expression of the gelsolin gene in the skin in general could locally contribute to the characteristic skin amyloidosis in FAF patients.
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- T Paunio
- Department of Human Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
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Ciulla TA, Tolentino F, Morrow JF, Dryja TP. Vitreous amyloidosis in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy. Report of a case with the Val30Met transthyretin mutation. Surv Ophthalmol 1995; 40:197-206. [PMID: 8599155 DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6257(95)80026-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We present a clinical pathological review of vitreous amyloidosis in a case of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, type I. Vitreous opacification was the first manifestation of disease in the proband, who was successfully treated with vitrectomy. The eyes were obtained at autopsy after the patient died from an unrelated cause, and the histopathology is presented here. Analysis of DNA from the pathology specimen revealed the most commonly reported transthyretin mutation, Val30Met. The classification of systemic and ocular amyloidosis as well as the genetics of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy are briefly reviewed.
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- T A Ciulla
- Department of Opthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Kiuru S, Matikainen E, Kupari M, Haltia M, Palo J. Autonomic nervous system and cardiac involvement in familial amyloidosis, Finnish type (FAF). J Neurol Sci 1994; 126:40-8. [PMID: 7836945 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(94)90092-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Familial amyloidosis, Finnish type (FAF), is a gelsolin-related inherited systemic amyloidosis. We report autonomic nervous system and cardiac findings in a study of 30 FAF patients (18 females, 12 males aged 27-74 years; mean 53.9 years). Cardiovascular reflex tests showed a significant decrease in heart rate variation in FAF patients compared with healthy controls. Orthostatic hypotension was found in 9 of 28 FAF patients, but only in 3 of 69 controls. Signs of amyloid cardiopathy were rare at clinical examination and in radio-, echocardio- and electrocardiographic examinations. Histological and immunohistochemical studies revealed amyloid deposition and immunoreactivity against the gelsolin-related FAF amyloid subunit in autonomic nervous system structures and in cardiac tissue in 3 autopsied FAF patients. The results show that minor autonomic nervous system dysfunction can be found in FAF, while clinically significant amyloid cardiopathy or autonomic neuropathy is not characteristic of this type of amyloidosis.
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- S Kiuru
- Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Kivelä T, Tarkkanen A, McLean I, Ghiso J, Frangione B, Haltia M. Immunohistochemical analysis of lattice corneal dystrophies types I and II. Br J Ophthalmol 1993; 77:799-804. [PMID: 8110676 PMCID: PMC504660 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.77.12.799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Corneal buttons from four patients with lattice corneal dystrophy (LD) type I, thought to be an isolated corneal amyloidosis, and from six patients with LD type II, part of systemic familial amyloidosis, Finnish type (FAF; Meretoja's syndrome), were studied by immunohistochemistry to determine the differential distribution in the amyloid deposits of amyloid P component (AP), mutated gelsolin specific for FAF, and native gelsolin. In both types of LD, antibodies to AP labelled lattice lines and a discontinuous layer of amyloid deposits under Bowman's layer. In LD type II, particularly, they also reacted with streak-like amyloid deposits between corneal almellae, especially in the limbal region. While the anti-FAF antiserum strongly labelled all amyloid deposits in LD type II, it failed to react unequivocally with them in LD type I. Both in LD type I and in two control specimens representing granular dystrophy, the monoclonal antibody (MAb) GS-2C4 to gelsolin faintly labelled some deposits, while in LD type II it reacted non-homogeneously with most amyloid deposits. In all specimens, MAb GS-2C4 labelled corneal epithelial cells and occasional stromal keratocytes and endothelial cells. The results suggest that Meretoja's syndrome, a systemic disease, can be diagnosed even retrospectively from corneal buttons subjected to histopathological study.
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- T Kivelä
- Department of Ophthalmology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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de la Chapelle A. Disease gene mapping in isolated human populations: the example of Finland. J Med Genet 1993; 30:857-65. [PMID: 8230163 PMCID: PMC1016570 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.30.10.857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Sunada Y, Shimizu T, Nakase H, Ohta S, Asaoka T, Amano S, Sawa M, Kagawa Y, Kanazawa I, Mannen T. Inherited amyloid polyneuropathy type IV (gelsolin variant) in a Japanese family. Ann Neurol 1993; 33:57-62. [PMID: 8388189 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410330110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We describe a Japanese family with familial amyloid polyneuropathy type IV. The family originates from central Japan, Nagano prefecture, and is unrelated to Finnish or other Caucasian populations. Of 42 members in three generations, 14 individuals (5 men, 9 women) are affected by corneal lattice dystrophy, cranial neuropathy, mild peripheral neuropathy, and skin changes. Polarizing microscopy and immunohistochemistry studies of skin biopsy samples demonstrated abundant amyloid deposits, which bound an antigelsolin monoclonal antibody. Direct sequence analysis of a DNA fragment spanning codon 187 of plasma gelsolin complementary DNA and restriction analysis using a modified polymerase chain reaction demonstrated a single base substitution, guanine to adenine, at nucleotide position 654, which is identical to the mutation in Finnish familial amyloid polyneuropathy type IV. This strongly suggests that the mutation causes the familial amyloid polyneuropathy type IV phenotype regardless of ethnic background.
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- Y Sunada
- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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de la Chapelle A, Tolvanen R, Boysen G, Santavy J, Bleeker-Wagemakers L, Maury CP, Kere J. Gelsolin-derived familial amyloidosis caused by asparagine or tyrosine substitution for aspartic acid at residue 187. Nat Genet 1992; 2:157-60. [PMID: 1338910 DOI: 10.1038/ng1092-157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Dominantly inherited familial amyloidosis, Finnish type (FAF) is caused by the accumulation of a 71-amino acid amyloidogenic fragment of mutant gelsolin (GSN). FAF is common in Finland but is very rare elsewhere. In Finland and in two American families, the mutation is a G654A transition leading to an Asp to Asn substitution at residue 187. We found the same mutation in a Dutch family but a Danish FAF family had a G654T mutation, predicting Asp to Tyr at residue 187. We also found the G654T transversion in a Czech family. Using GSN polymorphisms, different haplotypes were found in the Danish and Czech families. We conclude that substitution of the uncharged Asn or Tyr for the acidic Asp at residue 187 creates a conformation that may be preferentially amyloidogenic for GSN.
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de la Chapelle A, Kere J, Sack GH, Tolvanen R, Maury CP. Familial amyloidosis, Finnish type: G654----a mutation of the gelsolin gene in Finnish families and an unrelated American family. Genomics 1992; 13:898-901. [PMID: 1322359 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90182-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The Finnish type of familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAF) is an autosomal dominant form of systemic amyloidosis caused by a mutation in the gelsolin gene. The mutation leads to the expression of amyloidogenic mutant Asp187----Asn gelsolin, an actin-modulating protein. We previously developed a DNA test based on amplification by the polymerase chain reaction followed by allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization that identifies the base substitution adenine for guanine at nucleotide 654 in the gelsolin gene causing the disease. We show here that the same mutation is present in members of six apparently unrelated Finnish families and in a member of an unrelated American family. These results, taken together with previously published findings in nine additional Finnish families and another unrelated American family, indicate that most, perhaps all, FAF patients in Finland and possibly worldwide carry the same mutation. We suggest two alternative explanations: (i) the mutation arose in a very early common ancestor or (ii) the Asn187 mutation is particularly, perhaps uniquely, amyloidogenic.
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Maury CP, Kere J, Tolvanen R, de la Chapelle A. Homozygosity for the Asn187 gelsolin mutation in Finnish-type familial amyloidosis is associated with severe renal disease. Genomics 1992; 13:902-3. [PMID: 1322360 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90183-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- C P Maury
- Fourth Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Gertz MA, Kyle RA, Thibodeau SN. Familial amyloidosis: a study of 52 North American-born patients examined during a 30-year period. Mayo Clin Proc 1992; 67:428-40. [PMID: 1405768 DOI: 10.1016/s0025-6196(12)60388-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Between 1961 and 1990, 52 patients with biopsy-proven familial amyloidosis born in North America were examined at the Mayo Clinic. At the time of diagnosis of familial amyloidosis, 83% of these patients had peripheral neuropathy, 33% had autonomic neuropathy, and 27% had cardiomyopathy. Renal disease was noted in fewer than 10%, and liver involvement was rare. The median age at diagnosis was 64 years. The sensitivity of various diagnostic biopsies was similar to that for primary amyloidosis: deposits of amyloid were found in 77 and 78% of the subcutaneous fat aspirates or rectal biopsy specimens, respectively, and in 41% of specimens of bone marrow. The median duration of survival of 5.8 years for patients with inherited amyloidosis was superior to that for patients with primary amyloidosis. When patients were stratified by organ involvement, the survival of patients with familial amyloidosis remained superior. The presence of cardiomyopathy and an interactive variable of age and the presence of autonomic neuropathy were powerful predictors of survival. Of the 52 patients, 22 died, 12 (55%) of cardiac failure or cardiac arrhythmia. Nine patients (41%) died of inanition in conjunction with progressive peripheral or autonomic neuropathy. Transthyretin was identified by immunohistochemical studies in 31 of the 34 tissue specimens tested. A transthyretin mutation was identified in 24 of the 31. A transthyretin mutation was found in five additional patients for whom tissue was unavailable for immunostaining.
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- M A Gertz
- Dysproteinemia Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905
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Maury CP, Nurmiaho-Lassila EL. Creation of amyloid fibrils from mutant Asn187 gelsolin peptides. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992; 183:227-31. [PMID: 1311922 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(92)91632-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The amyloid protein in familial amyloidosis, Finnish type, is a 71 amino acid long fragment of the inner region of mutant Asp187----Asn gelsolin. The mechanism of gelsolin amyloid formation was tested with synthetic 11 and 30 residue peptides corresponding to the normal and mutant sequence of gelsolin. Fibrils meeting the morphologic criteria of amyloid were formed from the mutant Asn187 peptides. Substitution of the normal Asp187 residue with the mutant Asn residue resulted in a 9-fold increase in fibrillogenicity as determined by quantitative fluorometry. The present study demonstrates the first successful in vitro creation of amyloid-like fibrils from Asn187 gelsolin peptides and provides evidence that amyloid formation in Finnish amyloidosis is a direct consequence of the Asp187----Asn substitution in gelsolin.
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- C P Maury
- Fourth Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Haltia M, Levy E, Meretoja J, Fernandez-Madrid I, Koivunen O, Frangione B. Gelsolin gene mutation--at codon 187--in familial amyloidosis, Finnish: DNA-diagnostic assay. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1992; 42:357-9. [PMID: 1311149 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320420321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Familial amyloidosis, Finnish (FAF), is an autosomal dominant form of systemic amyloidosis with lattice corneal dystrophy and progressive cranial neuropathy as principal clinical manifestations. We have shown that the novel amyloid fibril protein found in these patients is an internal degradation fragment of gelsolin, an actin-binding protein, and that it contains an amino acid substitution, asparagine for aspartic acid at position 15, that is due to a guanine-to-adenine transversion corresponding to codon 187 of human plasma gelsolin cDNA. To test that this mutation cosegregates with the disease high-molecular-weight genomic DNA was isolated from autopsied tissues or lymphocytes of 23 patients, 6 healthy relatives and 20 unrelated healthy control persons. Specific fragments were amplified with the polymerase chain reaction for oligonucleotide hybridization analysis using the slot-blot technique. The guanine-to-adenine transversion was found in all FAF patients tested, but in none of the control subjects. Our results show that the mutation (G to A) cosegregates with the disease phenotype, and that the slot-blot analysis can be used as a diagnostic assay, including prenatal evaluation.
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- M Haltia
- Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York
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Gorevic PD, Munoz PC, Gorgone G, Purcell JJ, Rodrigues M, Ghiso J, Levy E, Haltia M, Frangione B. Amyloidosis due to a mutation of the gelsolin gene in an American family with lattice corneal dystrophy type II. N Engl J Med 1991; 325:1780-5. [PMID: 1658654 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199112193252505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- P D Gorevic
- Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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Maury CP. Gelsolin-related amyloidosis. Identification of the amyloid protein in Finnish hereditary amyloidosis as a fragment of variant gelsolin. J Clin Invest 1991; 87:1195-9. [PMID: 1849145 PMCID: PMC295133 DOI: 10.1172/jci115118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The Finnish type of familial amyloidosis is a systemic disease characterized by progressive cranial neuropathy, corneal lattice dystrophy, and distal sensimotor neuropathy. Amyloid fibrils were isolated from the kidney and heart of a patient with Finnish amyloidosis. After solubilization, the amyloid proteins were fractionated by gel filtration and purified by reverse-phase HPLC. Complete amino acid sequence analyses show that the two amyloid components obtained are fragments of gelsolin, an actin-modulating protein occurring in plasma and the cytoskeleton. The larger component represents residues 173-243 and the minor component residues 173-225, respectively, of mature gelsolin. When compared with the predicted primary structure of human gelsolin a single amino acid substitution is present in amyloid: at position 15 of the amyloid proteins an asparagine is found instead of an aspartic acid residue at the corresponding position (187) in gelsolin. Antibodies to a dodecapeptide of the amyloidogenic region of gelsolin specifically stain the tissue amyloid deposits in Finnish hereditary amyloidosis. The results show that the amyloid subunit protein in Finnish hereditary amyloidosis represents a new type of amyloid that is derived from an actin filament-binding region of a variant gelsolin molecule by limited proteolysis.
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- C P Maury
- Fourth Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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