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Kaya I, Nilsson A, Luptáková D, He Y, Vallianatou T, Bjärterot P, Svenningsson P, Bezard E, Andrén PE. Spatial lipidomics reveals brain region-specific changes of sulfatides in an experimental MPTP Parkinson's disease primate model. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2023; 9:118. [PMID: 37495571 PMCID: PMC10372136 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-023-00558-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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Metabolism of MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine) to the neurotoxin MPP+ in the brain causes permanent Parkinson's disease-like symptoms by destroying dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra in humans and non-human primates. However, the complete molecular pathology underlying MPTP-induced parkinsonism remains poorly understood. We used dual polarity matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging to thoroughly image numerous glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids in coronal brain tissue sections of MPTP-lesioned and control non-human primate brains (Macaca mulatta). The results revealed specific distributions of several sulfatide lipid molecules based on chain-length, number of double bonds, and importantly, hydroxylation stage. More specifically, certain long-chain hydroxylated sulfatides with polyunsaturated chains in the molecular structure were depleted within motor-related brain regions in the MPTP-lesioned animals, e.g., external and internal segments of globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars reticulata. In contrast, certain long-chain non-hydroxylated sulfatides were found to be elevated within the same brain regions. These findings demonstrate region-specific dysregulation of sulfatide metabolism within the MPTP-lesioned macaque brain. The depletion of long-chain hydroxylated sulfatides in the MPTP-induced pathology indicates oxidative stress and oligodendrocyte/myelin damage within the pathologically relevant brain regions. Hence, the presented findings improve our current understanding of the molecular pathology of MPTP-induced parkinsonism within primate brains, and provide a basis for further research regarding the role of dysregulated sulfatide metabolism in PD.
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- Ibrahim Kaya
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Section of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Section of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, F-33000, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Spatial Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Ajith A, Sthanikam Y, Banerjee S. Chemical analysis of the human brain by imaging mass spectrometry. Analyst 2021; 146:5451-5473. [PMID: 34515699 DOI: 10.1039/d1an01109j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Analysis of the chemical makeup of the brain enables a deeper understanding of several neurological processes. Molecular imaging that deciphers the spatial distribution of neurochemicals with high specificity and sensitivity is an exciting avenue in this aspect. The past two decades have witnessed a significant surge of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) that can simultaneously map the distribution of hundreds to thousands of biomolecules in the tissue specimen at a fairly high resolution, which is otherwise beyond the scope of other molecular imaging techniques. In this review, we have documented the evolution of MSI technologies in imaging the anatomical distribution of neurochemicals in the human brain in the context of several neuro diseases. This review also addresses the potential of MSI to be a next-generation molecular imaging technique with its promising applications in neuropathology.
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- Akhila Ajith
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India.
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Wrapping axons in mammals and Drosophila: Different lipids, same principle. Biochimie 2020; 178:39-48. [PMID: 32800899 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Plasma membranes of axon-wrapping glial cells develop specific cylindrical bilayer membranes that surround thin individual axons or axon bundles. Axons are wrapped with single layered glial cells in lower organisms whereas in the mammalian nervous system, axons are surrounded with a characteristic complex multilamellar myelin structure. The high content of lipids in myelin suggests that lipids play crucial roles in the structure and function of myelin. The most striking feature of myelin lipids is the high content of galactosylceramide (GalCer). Serological and genetic studies indicate that GalCer plays a key role in the formation and function of the myelin sheath in mammals. In contrast to mammals, Drosophila lacks GalCer. Instead of GalCer, ceramide phosphoethanolamine (CPE) has an important role to ensheath axons with glial cells in Drosophila. GalCer and CPE share similar physical properties: both lipids have a high phase transition temperature and high packing, are immiscible with cholesterol and form helical liposomes. These properties are caused by both the strong headgroup interactions and the tight packing resulting from the small size of the headgroup and the hydrogen bonds between lipid molecules. These results suggest that mammals and Drosophila wrap axons using different lipids but the same conserved principle.
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Maganti RJ, Hronowski XL, Dunstan RW, Wipke BT, Zhang X, Jandreski L, Hamann S, Juhasz P. Defining Changes in the Spatial Distribution and Composition of Brain Lipids in the Shiverer and Cuprizone Mouse Models of Myelin Disease. J Histochem Cytochem 2018; 67:203-219. [PMID: 30501365 PMCID: PMC6393840 DOI: 10.1369/0022155418815860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Myelin is composed primarily of lipids and diseases affecting myelin are associated with alterations in its lipid composition. However, correlation of the spatial (in situ) distribution of lipids with the disease-associated compositional and morphological changes is not well defined. Herein we applied high resolution matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS), immunohistochemistry (IHC), and liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization–mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) to evaluate brain lipid alterations in the dysmyelinating shiverer (Shi) mouse and cuprizone (Cz) mouse model of reversible demyelination. MALDI-IMS revealed a decrease in the spatial distribution of sulfatide (SHexCer) species, SHexCer (d42:2), and a phosphatidylcholine (PC) species, PC (36:1), in white matter regions like corpus callosum (CC) both in the Shi mouse and Cz mouse model. Changes in these lipid species were restored albeit not entirely upon spontaneous remyelination after demyelination in the Cz mouse model. Lipid distribution changes correlated with the local morphological changes as confirmed by IHC. LC-ESI-MS analyses of CC extracts confirmed the MALDI-IMS derived reductions in SHexCer and PC species. These findings highlight the role of SHexCer and PC in preserving the normal myelin architecture and our experimental approaches provide a morphological basis to define lipid abnormalities relevant to myelin diseases.
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- Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts.,AbbVie, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Schmitt S, Castelvetri LC, Simons M. Metabolism and functions of lipids in myelin. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2014; 1851:999-1005. [PMID: 25542507 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2014.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Revised: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Rapid conduction of nerve impulses requires coating of axons by myelin sheaths, which are lipid-rich and multilamellar membrane stacks. The lipid composition of myelin varies significantly from other biological membranes. Studies in mutant mice targeting various lipid biosynthesis pathways have shown that myelinating glia have a remarkable capacity to compensate the lack of individual lipids. However, compensation fails when it comes to maintaining long-term stability of myelin. Here, we summarize how lipids function in myelin biogenesis, axon-glia communication and in supporting long-term maintenance of myelin. We postulate that change in myelin lipid composition might be relevant for our understanding of aging and demyelinating diseases. This article is part of a Special Issue titled Brain Lipids.
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- Sebastian Schmitt
- Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, Göttingen, Germany; Department of Neurology, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, Göttingen, Germany; Department of Neurology, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, Göttingen, Germany; Department of Neurology, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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The Enigmatic Role of Sulfatides: New Insights into Cellular Functions and Mechanisms of Protein Recognition. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2013; 991:27-40. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6331-9_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Gopalakrishnan G, Awasthi A, Belkaid W, De Faria O, Liazoghli D, Colman DR, Dhaunchak AS. Lipidome and proteome map of myelin membranes. J Neurosci Res 2012; 91:321-34. [PMID: 23325434 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Revised: 09/17/2012] [Accepted: 09/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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To understand the molecular anatomy of myelin membranes, we performed a large-scale, liquid chromatography-coupled tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based lipidome and proteome screen on freshly purified human and murine myelin fractions. We identified more than 700 lipid moieties and above 1,000 proteins in the two species, including 284 common lipids and 257 common proteins. This study establishes the first comprehensive map of myelin membrane components in human and mice. Although this study demonstrates many similarities between human and murine myelin, several components have been identified exclusively in each species. Future quantitative validation studies focused on interspecies differences will authenticate the myelin membrane anatomy. The combined lipidome and proteome map presented here can nevertheless be used as a reference library for myelin health and disease.
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- Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Myelin fractions were prepared from brains of 9- to 90-day-old rats by continuous and discontinuous sucrose density gradient procedures. Total protein and lipid content of myelin showed little variation, but lipid composition changed significantly during maturation. Cholesterol, galactolipids, and ethanolamine glycerophosphatide plasmalogen increased whereas choline glycerophosphatide content decreased with increasing age. The changes in lipid composition were more marked in the myelin prepared by the discontinuous gradient technique. The significance of these lipid changes in relation to their organization in the myelin membrane is discussed.
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- L F Eng
- Veterans Administration Hospital, 94304, Palo Alto, California
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Wilhelm MJ, Ong HH, Wehrli SL, Li C, Tsai PH, Hackney DB, Wehrli FW. Direct magnetic resonance detection of myelin and prospects for quantitative imaging of myelin density. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:9605-10. [PMID: 22628562 PMCID: PMC3386098 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115107109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Magnetic resonance imaging has previously demonstrated its potential for indirectly mapping myelin density, either by relaxometric detection of myelin water or magnetization transfer. Here, we investigated whether myelin can be detected and possibly quantified directly. We identified the spectrum of myelin in the spinal cord in situ as well as in myelin lipids extracted via a sucrose gradient method, and investigated its spectral properties. High-resolution solution NMR spectroscopy showed the extract composition to be in agreement with myelin's known chemical make-up. The 400-MHz (1)H spectrum of the myelin extract, at 20 °C (room temperature) and 37 °C, consists of a narrow water resonance superimposed on a broad envelope shifted ∼3.5 ppm upfield, suggestive of long-chain methylene protons. Superimposed on this signal are narrow components resulting from functional groups matching the chemical shifts of the constituents making up myelin lipids. The spectrum could be modeled as a sum of super-Lorentzians with a T(2)* distribution covering a wide range of values (0.008-26 ms). Overall, there was a high degree of similarity between the spectral properties of extracted myelin lipids and those found in neural tissue. The normalized difference spectrum had the hallmarks of membrane proteins, not present in the myelin extract. Using 3D radially ramp-sampled proton MRI, with a combination of adiabatic inversion and echo subtraction, the feasibility of direct myelin imaging in situ is demonstrated. Last, the integrated signal from myelin suspensions is shown, both spectroscopically and by imaging, to scale with concentration, suggesting the potential for quantitative determination of myelin density.
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- Michael J. Wilhelm
- Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- NMR Core Facility, Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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- Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Laboratory for Structural NMR Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Helmy F, Morris A. A comparative study of the lipid composition of the brain of chicken and rat during myelination. A chromatographic and densitometric analysis. JPC-J PLANAR CHROMAT 2011. [DOI: 10.1556/jpc.24.2011.4.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Yuki D, Sugiura Y, Zaima N, Akatsu H, Hashizume Y, Yamamoto T, Fujiwara M, Sugiyama K, Setou M. Hydroxylated and non-hydroxylated sulfatide are distinctly distributed in the human cerebral cortex. Neuroscience 2011; 193:44-53. [PMID: 21802498 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.07.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Revised: 07/18/2011] [Accepted: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Sulfatide (ST) is a sphingolipid with an important role in the central nervous system as a major component of the myelin sheath. ST contains a structurally variable ceramide moiety, with a fatty acid substituent of varying carbon-chain length and double-bond number. Hydroxylation at the α-2 carbon position of the fatty acid is found in half the population of ST molecules. Recent genetic studies of fatty acid 2-hydroxylase (FA2H) indicate that these hydroxylated sphingolipids influence myelin sheath stability. However, their distribution is unknown. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS) enables the analysis of distinct distributions of individual ST molecular species in tissue section. We examined human cerebral cortex tissue sections with MALDI-IMS, identifying and characterizing the distributions of 14 ST species. The distribution analysis reveals that the composition ratios of non-hydroxylated/hydroxylated STs are clearly reversed at the border between white and gray matter; the hydroxylated group is the dominant ST species in the gray matter. These results suggest that hydroxylated STs are highly expressed in oligodendrocytes in gray matter and might form stable myelin sheaths. As a clinical application, we analyzed a brain with Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a representative neurodegenerative disease. Although previous studies of AD pathology have reported that the amount of total ST is decreased in the cerebral cortex, as far as the compositional distributions of STs are concerned, AD brains were similar to those in control brains. In conclusion, we suggest that MALDI-IMS is a useful tool for analysis of the distributions of various STs and this application might provide novel insight in the clinical study of demyelinating diseases.
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- D Yuki
- Research and Development Headquarters, Lion Corporation, 7-2-1 Hirai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo 132-0035, Japan
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Igarashi M, Schaumburg HH, Powers J, Kishimoto Y, Koilodny E, Suzuki K. FATTY ACID ABNORMALITY IN ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY. J Neurochem 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976.tb04461.x-i1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gwarsha K, Rumsby MG, Little C. Action of phospholipase C (Bacillus cereus) on isolated myelin sheath preparations. Neurochem Int 1984; 6:199-206. [DOI: 10.1016/0197-0186(84)90093-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/1983] [Accepted: 09/01/1983] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Karasawa A, Yoshikawa S, Miyakawa A, Nishi A, Ishitani R. Simple and rapid purification of acidic lipids from rat brains. J Chromatogr A 1983; 260:513-6. [PMID: 6863438 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9673(83)80063-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Igisu H, Takahashi H, Suzuki K, Suzuki K. Abnormal accumulation of galactosylceramide in the kidney of twitcher mouse. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1983; 110:940-4. [PMID: 6838562 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(83)91053-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The kidney tissue of the twitcher mice, a neurological mutant caused by a genetic deficiency of galactosylceramidase, contains enormously increased amounts, up to 50 times normal, of galactosylceramide. The finding is in sharp contrast with those in the enzymatically equivalent human disease, globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease), in which no specific abnormal accumulation of galactosylceramide occurs despite the same genetic block in the catabolic pathway. This indicates that the same genetic defect can result in entirely different consequences in different species. Caution must be exercised even when "authentic animal models" are utilized for studies of human diseases.
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Roth GA, Monferran CG, Maggio B, Cumar FA. Central nervous system lipid alterations in rats with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and its suppression by immunosuppressive drugs. Life Sci 1982; 30:859-66. [PMID: 7200180 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(82)90600-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Rats with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) induced with myelin or spinal cord show decreases in the content of sulphatides and cerebrosides and increases in the level of esterified cholesterol in the CNS. In this work it is shown that brain sulphatide changes can be obtained by injection of mixtures containing glycosphingolipids. Alterations in the content of cerebrosides occur when the injection mixture contains cerebrosides. The alterations of sulphatides and cholesterol ester induced by injection of spinal cord could be suppressed by treatment with immunosuppressive drugs (dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide and 6-mercaptopurine) able to prevent clinical signs of EAE.
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Norton WT, Poduslo SE. Biochemical studies of metachromatic leukodystrophy in three siblings. Acta Neuropathol 1982; 57:188-96. [PMID: 7124346 DOI: 10.1007/bf00685388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Biochemical analyses were performed on cerebral biopsies from three siblings with metachromatic leukodystrophy, and from autopsy tissue obtained 6 months later. The lipids of all gray matter samples were relatively normal, with the exception of an elevated sulfatide: cerebroside ratio. The white matter samples were grossly abnormal and showed a progression in severity of biochemical abnormalities with duration of the disease. Sulfatides were 4-8-fold higher than normal, and the ratio of cerebrosides to sulfatides ranged from 0.13 to 0.26, compared to the normal value of about 4.0. Myelin was isolated in very low yield, but had normal morphology. As others have reported, it had the same chemical defect as whole white matter; sulfatides were 7-8 times higher than normal and cerebrosides were reduced by more than half. The fatty acid compositions of the myelin sphingolipids were found to be of much longer average chain length than those in affected white matter. In myelin, the unsubstituted fatty acids of cerebrosides and sphingomyelin had a higher percentage of short chains than found in normal myelin, but were less abnormal than those in whole white matter, whereas the unsubstituted and alpha-hydroxy acids of sulfatides and the alpha-hydroxy acids of cerebrosides were not deficient in long chains. These data indicate that there are at least two compartments of sphingolipids in MLD white matter, each having different average chain lengths.
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A patient with chronic GM1 gangliosidosis was studied enzymatically and biochemically. Leukocyte acid beta-galactosidase activity was severely deficient. In brain and liver, the 4-methylumbelliferyl beta-galactosidase with acidic pH optimum and lactosylceramidase II were deficient while other hydrolases were present in normal amounts, including sialidase determined with N-acetylneuramin-lactose and fetuin as substrates. Neutral beta-galactosidase in liver was increased up to fourfold over the control. Corresponding to the pathological findings, GM1 ganglioside sialic acid was increased in the basal ganglia to 57% of the total (normal, 12 to 16%), accounting for the rise in total ganglioside to 180% of normal in this origin. Only slight to moderate elevations in the proportion of GM1 ganglioside were noted in the cerebral cortex and white matter, without major increase in total ganglioside. Elevated asialo GM1 ganglioside was also confined to the basal ganglia. There was no increase in hepatic glycoproteins or in keratan sulfate-like materials. This is the only known patient with chronic GM1 gangliosidosis in whom abnormal accumulation of GM1 ganglioside has been demonstrated in affected tissue and sialidase deficiency has been excluded as the primary genetic defect.
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Kobayashi T, Suzuki K. A taurodeoxycholate-activated galactosylceramidase in the murine intestine. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)69938-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Hanada E, Suzuki K. Specificity of galactosylceramidase activation by phosphatidylserine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1980; 619:396-402. [PMID: 6773584 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(80)90087-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Bovine brain phosphatidylserine effectively activates human brain galactosylceramidase (Hanada, E. and Suzuki, K. (1979) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 575, 410-420). Its effect on the other beta-galactosidase (Gm1-ganglioside beta-galactosidase) in human tissues, genetically distinct from galactosylceramidase, was examined. When partially purified human brain beta-galactosidase preparations, pure with respect to each other, were used as the enzyme source and when lactosylceramide, a common glycosphingolipid substrate for both beta-galactosidases, was used as the substrate, phosphatidylserine activated only hydrolysis of lactosylceramide by galactosylceramidase but not by GM1-ganglioside beta-galactosidase. With either galactosylceramide or lactosylceramide as substrate, and with phosphatidylserine as the activator, diagnosis of globoid cell leukodystrophy was possible using whole homogenates of cultured fibroblasts. Since 80-90% of lactosylceramide-cleaving activity in normal fibroblasts is due to GM1-ganglioside beta-galactosidase and since fibroblasts of globoid cell leukodystrophy patients are genetically deficient in galactosylceramidase but normal in GM1-ganglioside beta-galactosidase, these rsults are also consistent with specific activation of galactosylceramidase by phosphatidylserine.
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Goldman JE, Yamanaka T, Rapin I, Adachi M, Suzuki K, Suzuki K. The AB-variant of GM2-gangliosidosis. Clinical, biochemical, and pathological studies of two patients. Acta Neuropathol 1980; 52:189-202. [PMID: 6255724 DOI: 10.1007/bf00705807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Clinical, neuropathological, and biochemical studies are reported in two children with the AB-variant of GM2-gangliosidosis. One patient had become symptomatic by 1--1.5 years, initially showing cerebellar signs, and then progressive psychomotor retardation, with hypotonia, spasticity, dementia, and macular cherry red spots, until death at the age of 4.5 years. The second patient showed an earlier onset of retardation and a more rapidly progressive course. At postmortem, the brains were of normal or near normal weights and displayed grossly only mild cerebral cortical and cerebellar atrophy, and mild pallor or attenuation of the white matter. Neuronal storage was widespread throughout the CNS, and both neurons and glia contained a variety of abnormal, membranous inclusions. Visceral organs were not involved. Ganglioside sialic acid was increased several fold in gray matter, with GM2 the predominant ganglioside species. N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase activities in serum, leukocytes, fibroblasts, and postmortem gray matter, assayed with an artificial, fluorogenic substrate, were normal, as were activities of other lysosomal hydrolases.
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Soffer D, Yamanaka T, Wenger DA, Suzuki K, Suzuki K. Central nervous system involvement in adult-onset Gaucher's disease. Acta Neuropathol 1980; 49:1-6. [PMID: 7355669 DOI: 10.1007/bf00692212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Neuropathological findings are reported in an adult with Gaucher's disease. In this patient, Gaucher cells with characteristic storage material were found throughout the brain and also in the leptomeninges. They were confined to the perivascular space of small blood vessels and were commonly associated with intense perivascular, glio-mesodermal fibrillary reaction. Neuronal storage was not seen. Glucosylceramidase activities were severely deficient in both brain and liver and glucosylceramide was abnormally increased in the liver of this patient. The significance of the neuropathological changes is briefly discussed.
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Hanada E, Suzuki K. Activation of human brain galactosylceramidase by phosphatidylserine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1979; 575:410-20. [PMID: 42440 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(79)90110-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Assays of sphingolipid hydrolases in vitro generally require bile salts or other detergents. A few 'activator proteins' have been reported that can partially replace the detergents in the assay mixture. We report here that phosphatidylserine from bovine brain is a relatively specific activator of human brain galactosylceramidase in the absence of sodium taurocholate (phosphatidylserine system). Activity similar to that obtained with the conventional assay system containing taurocholate and oleic acid (taurocholate system) could be obtained. Other lipids tested generally gave less than 10% of the taurocholate system activity, but sulfatide could activate human brain galactosylceramidase to 20--30% of the taurocholate system. The properties of the reaction in the phosphatidylserine system were examined with human brain whole homogenate, crude soluble post-concanavalin A preparations, and partially purified preparations as the enzyme source and compared with those obtained with the taurocholate system. The pH optimum shifted from 4.2 in the taurocholate system to 4.7 in the phosphatidylserine system. The phosphatidylserine system was superior in the linearity of the reaction with respect to the enzyme protein. Reasonably linear Lineweaver-Burk plots could be obtained. The Km values for the phosphatidylserine system were greater than those for the taurocholate system. The effect of phosphatidylserine was not additive to that of taurocholate. Additional phosphatidylserine to the taurocholate system was either without effect at lower concentrations or inhibitory at higher concentrations. The assays of galactosylceramidase with phosphatidylserine and without taurocholate do not necessarily provide pragmatic advantages but offer a potentially useful system with which to study the mechanism of in vivo degradation of the membrane-bound glycosphingolipid.
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Choi MU, Suzuki K. Microsomal cholesterol ester hydrolase of rat brain: lipids as effector of enzymatic activity. Arch Biochem Biophys 1979; 197:570-9. [PMID: 507830 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(79)90281-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Chiao YB, Moffitt K, Smallwood Y, Glew RH, Naoi M, Lee YC. Glyconamides as inhibitors of human beta-glucosidases and beta-galactosidases. Arch Biochem Biophys 1979; 192:1-9. [PMID: 107857 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(79)90065-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Moffitt KD, Chambers JP, Diven WF, Glew RH, Wenger DA, Farrell DF. Characterization of lysosomal hydrolases that are elevated in Gaucher's disease. Arch Biochem Biophys 1978; 190:247-60. [PMID: 101149 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(78)90274-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Christie WW. The composition, structure and function of lipids in the tissues of ruminant animals. Prog Lipid Res 1978; 17:111-205. [PMID: 390540 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6832(78)90007-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Igarashi M, Schaumburg HH, Powers J, Kishmoto Y, Kolodny E, Suzuki K. Fatty acid abnormality in adrenoleukodystrophy. J Neurochem 1976; 26:851-60. [PMID: 965973 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976.tb04462.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Costantino-Ceccarini E, Fletcher TF, Suzuki K. Glycolipid metabolism in the canine form of globoid cell leukodystrophy. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1976; 68:127-45. [PMID: 937105 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-7735-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Taranova NP, Dvorkin VY. Phospholipid composition of rabbit brain synaptosomes under normal conditions and in poisoning by organophosphorus cholinesterase inhibitors. Bull Exp Biol Med 1975. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00804208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lactosylceramide beta-galactosidase in human sphingolipidoses. Evidence for two genetically distinct enzymes. J Biol Chem 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)41720-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Partial purification and characterization of beta-galactosidase from rat brain hydrolyzing glycosphingolipids. J Biol Chem 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)41937-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tadashi M, Kunihiko S. Glycosphingolipid β-galactosidases in rat brain: Properties and the standard assay procedures of the enzymes in whole homogenate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1974. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(74)90108-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Norton WT, Poduslo SE. Myelination in rat brain: changes in myelin composition during brain maturation. J Neurochem 1973; 21:759-73. [PMID: 4754856 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1973.tb07520.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 503] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Pollet S, Bourre JM, Chaix G, Daudu O, Baumann N. [Biosynthesis of fatty acids in mouse brain microsomes]. Biochimie 1973; 55:333-41. [PMID: 4147621 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(73)80134-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Hildebrand C. Evidence for a correlation between myelin period and number of myelin lamellae in fibres of the feline spinal cord white matter. JOURNAL OF NEUROCYTOLOGY 1972; 1:223-32. [PMID: 8530962 DOI: 10.1007/bf01099935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Rouser G, Kritchevsky G, Yamamoto A, Baxter CF. Lipids in the nervous system of different species as a function of age: brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, purified whole cell preparations, and subcellular particulates: regulatory mechanisms and membrane structure. ADVANCES IN LIPID RESEARCH 1972; 10:261-360. [PMID: 4344800 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-024910-7.50013-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Koyama N, Sawada K, Kurihra K. Isolation and some properties of plasma membranes from bovine olfactory epithelium. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 1971. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(71)90301-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Eto Y, Suzuki K. Fatty acid composition of cholesterol esters in brains of patients with Schilder's disease, G M1 -gangliosidosis and Tay-Sachs disease, and its possible relationship to the -position fatty acids of lecithin. J Neurochem 1971; 18:1007-16. [PMID: 5567894 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1971.tb12030.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Structure of Membranes and Role of Lipids Therein1 1Contribution No. 358, Animal Research Institute. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1971. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-024909-1.50011-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Manzoli FA, Stefoni S, Manzoli-Guidotti L, Barbieri M. The fatty acids of myelin phospholipids. FEBS Lett 1970; 10:317-320. [PMID: 11945422 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(70)80462-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- F A. Manzoli
- Instituto di Istologia e Fisiologia Generale, Università di Bologna e Instituto di Istologia, Università di Chieti, Italy
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Ulitzur S, Shilo M. Procedure for purification and separation of Prymnesium parvum toxins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1970; 201:350-63. [PMID: 5418727 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(70)90310-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Akers CK, Parsons DF. X-ray diffraction of myelin membrane. I. Optimal conditions for obtaining unmodified small angle diffraction data from frog sciatic nerve. Biophys J 1970; 10:101-15. [PMID: 5414533 PMCID: PMC1367724 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(70)86288-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The X-ray diffraction pattern of myelin of frog sciatic nerve has been investigated, using a Kratky small angle slit camera to obtain the electron density distribution across the membrane. All major reflections observed were related to a fundamental repeat distance of 171 +/- 2.8 A. There was no further increase in the number of reflections on varying the experimental conditions (varying pH, applying tension, immersion in various isotonic buffer solutions, etc.) or by varying the camera slit arrangement. The degree of disorder within the myelin sheath was examined by comparing the crystallite size to the half-width of the diffraction peak at half-height. The limiting of the diffraction spectra to five major reflections was determined not to be caused by disorder. It is concluded that the observed X-ray diffraction pattern is a consequence of the particular electron density distribution of the membrane. Therefore, the membrane cannot contain sharply distinct step-function regions of electron density, but approaches a modified cosine distribution.
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L'Hermite P. [Cytochemical study of myelin proteids]. HISTOCHEMIE. HISTOCHEMISTRY. HISTOCHIMIE 1970; 22:140-54. [PMID: 4193088 DOI: 10.1007/bf00303625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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