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Konno T, Yoshida K, Mizuta I, Mizuno T, Kawarai T, Tada M, Nozaki H, Ikeda SI, Onodera O, Wszolek ZK, Ikeuchi T. Diagnostic criteria for adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia due to CSF1R mutation. Eur J Neurol 2017; 25:142-147. [PMID: 28921817 DOI: 10.1111/ene.13464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To establish and validate diagnostic criteria for adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) due to colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) mutation. METHODS We developed diagnostic criteria for ALSP based on a recent analysis of the clinical characteristics of ALSP. These criteria provide 'probable' and 'possible' designations for patients who do not have a genetic diagnosis. To verify its sensitivity and specificity, we retrospectively applied our criteria to 83 ALSP cases who had CSF1R mutations (24 of these were analyzed at our institutions and the others were identified from the literature), 53 cases who had CSF1R mutation-negative leukoencephalopathies and 32 cases who had cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) with NOTCH3 mutations. RESULTS Among the CSF1R mutation-positive cases, 50 cases (60%) were diagnosed as 'probable' and 32 (39%) were diagnosed as 'possible,' leading to a sensitivity of 99% if calculated as a ratio of the combined number of cases who fulfilled 'probable' or 'possible' to the total number of cases. With regard to specificity, 22 cases (42%) with mutation-negative leukoencephalopathies and 28 (88%) with CADASIL were correctly excluded using these criteria. CONCLUSIONS These diagnostic criteria are very sensitive for diagnosing ALSP with sufficient specificity for differentiation from CADASIL and moderate specificity for other leukoencephalopathies. Our results suggest that these criteria are useful for the clinical diagnosis of ALSP.
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- T Konno
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.,Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Brain Disease Research, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Medical Technology, School of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Medicine (Neurology and Rheumatology), Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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Izumi Y, Takata T, Miyamoto R, Kawarai T, Saito Y, Murayama S, Kaji R. An autopsied case with novel mutated hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroid (HDLS). J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.1872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Oki R, Kawarai T, Morigaki R, Oka N, Murakami N, Izumi Y, Goto S, Kaji R. Neuropathological investigation of transgenic mice overexpressing hTFG harboring HMSN-P mutation. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.1612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kamada M, Kawarai T, Kawakita R, Miyamoto R, Tojima Y, Orlacchio A, Kaji R. Hereditary spastic paraplegia type 31: A novel splice site donor mutation and intra-familial phenotypic variability. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.3296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kawarai T, Montecchiani C, Miyamoto R, Gaudiello F, Miele M, Izumi Y, Kaji R, Orlacchio A. Spastic paraplegia type 4: A novel SPAST splice site donor mutation and expansion of the phenotype variability. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.3506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Yamazaki H, Takamatsu N, Nodera H, Kawarai T, Izumi Y, Kaji R. Distinguishing features of amyloid polyneuropathy on nerve ultrasound. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.3102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kawarai T, Miyamoito R, Mure H, Morigaki R, Oki R, Orlacchio A, Koichihara R, Nakagawa E, Sakamoto T, Izumi Y, Goto S, Kaji R. Mutations of KMT2B cause involuntary movements with intellectual disability. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.1022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Konno T, Yoshida K, Mizuno T, Kawarai T, Tada M, Nozaki H, Ikeda SI, Nishizawa M, Onodera O, Wszolek ZK, Ikeuchi T. Clinical and genetic characterization of adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia associated with CSF1R mutation. Eur J Neurol 2016; 24:37-45. [PMID: 27680516 PMCID: PMC5215554 DOI: 10.1111/ene.13125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Background and purpose The clinical characteristics of colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) related adult‐onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) have been only partially elucidated. Methods Clinical data from CSF1R mutation carriers who had been seen at our institutions or reported elsewhere were collected and analysed using a specific investigation sheet to standardize the data. Results In all, 122 cases from 90 families with CSF1R mutations were identified. The mean age of onset was 43 years (range 18–78 years), the mean age at death was 53 years (range 23–84 years) and the mean disease duration was 6.8 years (range 1–29 years). Women had a significantly younger age of onset than men (40 vs. 47 years, P = 0.0006, 95% confidence interval 3.158–11.177). There was an age‐dependent penetrance that was significantly different between the sexes (P = 0.0013). Motor dysfunctions were the most frequent initial symptom in women whose diseases began in their 20s. Thinning of the corpus callosum, abnormal signalling in pyramidal tracts, diffusion‐restricted lesions and calcifications in the white matter were characteristic imaging findings of ALSP. The calcifications were more frequently reported in our case series than in the literature (54% vs. 3%). Seventy‐nine per cent of the mutations were located in the distal part of the tyrosine kinase domain of CSF1R (102 cases). There were no apparent phenotype−genotype correlations. Conclusions The characteristics of ALSP were clarified. The phenotype of ALSP caused by CSF1R mutations is affected by sex.
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- T Konno
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.,Department of Neurology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Brain Disease Research, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Medical Technology, School of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Medicine (Neurology and Rheumatology), Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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Yoneda S, Kawarai T, Narisawa N, Tuna E, Sato N, Tsugane T, Saeki Y, Ochiai K, Senpuku H. Effects of short-chain fatty acids onActinomyces naeslundiibiofilm formation. Mol Oral Microbiol 2013; 28:354-65. [DOI: 10.1111/omi.12029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- S. Yoneda
- Department of Bacteriology; National Institute of Infectious Diseases; Tokyo; Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology; National Institute of Infectious Diseases; Tokyo; Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology; National Institute of Infectious Diseases; Tokyo; Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology; National Institute of Infectious Diseases; Tokyo; Japan
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- Oral Science Section Basic Research Department; Lotte Co., Ltd.; Saitama; Japan
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- Oral Science Section Basic Research Department; Lotte Co., Ltd.; Saitama; Japan
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- Department of Microbiology; Nihon University of Dentistry; Tokyo; Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology; National Institute of Infectious Diseases; Tokyo; Japan
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Pippucci T, Panza E, Pompilii E, Donadio V, Borreca A, Babalini C, Patrono C, Zuntini R, Kawarai T, Bernardi G, Liguori R, Romeo G, Montagna P, Orlacchio A, Seri M. Autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum: a novel mutation in the SPG11 gene and further evidence for genetic heterogeneity. Eur J Neurol 2012; 16:121-6. [PMID: 19087158 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2008.02367.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia with Thin Corpus Callosum (AR-HSPTCC) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous complicated form of spastic paraplegia. Two AR-HSPTCC loci have been assigned to chromosome 15q13-15 (SPG11) and chromosome 8p12-p11.21 respectively. Mutations in the SPG11 gene, encoding the spatacsin protein, have been found in the majority of SPG11 families. In this study, involvement of the SPG11 or 8p12-p11.21 loci was investigated in five Italian families, of which four consanguineous. METHODS Families were tested for linkage to the SPG11 or 8p12-p11.21 loci and the SPG11 gene was screened in all the affected individuals. RESULTS Linkage was excluded in the four consanguineous families. In the only SPG11-linked family the same homozygous haplotype 4.2 cM across the SPG11 locus was shared by all the three affected siblings. A novel c.2608A>G mutation predicted to affect the splicing was found in exon 14 of the SPG11 gene. DISCUSSION This collection of families contributes to highlight the intra and inter locus heterogeneity in AR-HSPTCC, already remarked in previous reports. In particular, it confirms heterogeneity amongst Italian families and reports a new mutation predicted to affect splicing in the spatacsin gene.
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- T Pippucci
- Laboratorio di Genetica Medica, Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche, Ostetriche e Pediatriche, Policlinico Sant'Orsola Malpighi, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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Orlacchio A, Patrono C, Borreca A, Babalini C, Bernardi G, Kawarai T. Spastic paraplegia in Romania: high prevalence of SPG4 mutations. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008; 79:606-7. [PMID: 17971434 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.128827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Orlacchio A, Patrono C, Gaudiello F, Rocchi C, Moschella V, Floris R, Bernardi G, Kawarai T. Silver syndrome variant of hereditary spastic paraplegia: A locus to 4p and allelism with SPG4. Neurology 2008; 70:1959-66. [PMID: 18401025 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000294330.27058.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To perform a clinical and genetic study of two large Italian families (RM-36 and RM-51) showing the cardinal clinical features of Silver syndrome (SS), a rare dominantly inherited form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) complicated by amyotrophy of the small hand muscles. METHODS Clinical assessment including neurophysiologic, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evaluations. Genetic studies included linkage and sequence analyses. RESULTS Using a genome-wide survey in the RM-36 family, a novel locus (SPG38) has been identified and mapped within the 13.1-cM region on chromosome 4p16-p15 between markers D4S432 and D4S1599. The RM-51 family was linked to the SPG4 locus at 2p21-p24 and sequence analysis of SPG4 showed a novel frameshift mutation p.Asp321GlyfsX6. Clinical examination of the affected members carrying the mutation showed high frequency of additional clinical features including decreased vibration sense, pes cavus, temporal lobe epilepsy, and cognitive impairment. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates evidence of a novel locus SPG38 for Silver syndrome (SS) and suggests that genetic defects in SPG4 might lead to broad clinical features overlapped with those of SS.
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- A Orlacchio
- Laboratorio di Neurogenetica, Centro Europeo di Ricerca sul Cervello (CERC), Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Santa Lucia, 64 Via del Fosso di Fiorano, Rome 00143, Italy.
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Bruni AC, Momeni P, Bernardi L, Tomaino C, Frangipane F, Elder J, Kawarai T, Sato C, Pradella S, Wakutani Y, Anfossi M, Gallo M, Geracitano S, Costanzo A, Smirne N, Curcio SAM, Mirabelli M, Puccio G, Colao R, Maletta RG, Kertesz A, St George-Hyslop P, Hardy J, Rogaeva E. Heterogeneity within a large kindred with frontotemporal dementia: a novel progranulin mutation. Neurology 2007; 69:140-7. [PMID: 17620546 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000265220.64396.b4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in several 17q21-linked families was recently explained by truncating mutations in the progranulin gene (GRN). OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of GRN mutations in a cohort of Caucasian patients with FTD without mutations in known FTD genes. METHODS GRN was sequenced in a series of 78 independent FTD patients including 23 familial subjects. A different Calabrian dataset (109 normal control subjects and 96 FTD patients) was used to establish the frequency of the GRN mutation. RESULTS A novel truncating GRN mutation (c.1145insA) was detected in a proband of an extended consanguineous Calabrian kindred. Segregation analysis of 70 family members revealed 19 heterozygous mutation carriers including 9 patients affected by FTD. The absence of homozygous carriers in a highly consanguineous kindred may indicate that the loss of both GRN alleles might lead to embryonic lethality. An extremely variable age at onset in the mutation carriers (more than five decades apart) is not explained by APOE genotypes or the H1/H2 MAPT haplotypes. Intriguingly, the mutation was excluded in four FTD patients belonging to branches with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance of FTD, suggesting that another novel FTD gene accounts for the disease in the phenocopies. It is difficult to clinically distinguish phenocopies from GRN mutation carriers, except that language in mutation carriers was more severely compromised. CONCLUSION The current results imply further genetic heterogeneity of frontotemporal dementia, as we detected only one GRN-linked family (about 1%). The value of discovering large kindred includes the possibility of a longitudinal study of GRN mutation carriers.
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- A C Bruni
- Regional Neurogenetic Centre, Lamezia Terme, CZ, Italy.
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Bernardi L, Maletta RG, Tomaino C, Smirne N, Di Natale M, Perri M, Longo T, Colao R, Curcio SAM, Puccio G, Mirabelli M, Kawarai T, Rogaeva E, St George Hyslop PH, Passarino G, De Benedictis G, Bruni AC. The effects of APOE and tau gene variability on risk of frontotemporal dementia. Neurobiol Aging 2006; 27:702-9. [PMID: 15904995 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2004] [Revised: 02/22/2005] [Accepted: 03/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a complex dementing syndrome whose genetic/non genetic risk factors are mostly unknown. Aim of the present work was to investigate whether APOE and/or tau gene variability does affect the risk of FTD. A sample of FTD cases (sporadic: n = 54; familial: n = 46, one subject per family) was collected in a genetically homogeneous population (Calabria, southern Italy) and analyzed in comparison with an age- and sex-matched control group (n = 180) extracted from the same population. Logistic regression analysis showed that APOE gene variability affects the probability of disease, with allele epsilon4 increasing (exp(beta1) = 2.68 with [1.51-4.76] 95% confidence interval; p = 0.001) and allele epsilon2 decreasing (exp(beta1) = 0.28 with [0.12-0.66] 95% confidence interval; p = 0.003) the risk of FTD. On the contrary, tau gene variability was ineffectual (exp(beta1) non significantly different from 1 for either H1 or H2 haplotypes), although a small effect was observed by the H1 haplotype in increasing the protective effect of the epsilon2 allele (p = 0.007).
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- L Bernardi
- Regional Neurogenetic Centre, ASL 6 Viale A. Perugini, 88046 Lamezia Terme, CZ, Italy
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Moonis M, Swearer JM, Dayaw MPE, St George-Hyslop P, Rogaeva E, Kawarai T, Pollen DA. Familial Alzheimer disease: decreases in CSF Abeta42 levels precede cognitive decline. Neurology 2006; 65:323-5. [PMID: 16043812 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000171397.32851.bc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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CSF amyloid beta-peptide 42 (Abeta42) levels in presymptomatic subjects with pathogenic mutations in the PS1 gene are significantly lower than in an age-matched control group. Consequently, in these subjects, there is a window of opportunity estimated as at least 4 to 12 years to evaluate the ability of any putative prophylactic therapy to decrease, arrest, or reverse abnormalities in Abeta42 metabolism many years before clinical symptoms of Alzheimer disease are otherwise likely to occur.
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- M Moonis
- Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave. N., Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Paisán-Ruíz C, Lang AE, Kawarai T, Sato C, Salehi-Rad S, Fisman GK, Al-Khairallah T, St George-Hyslop P, Singleton A, Rogaeva E. LRRK2 gene in Parkinson disease: mutation analysis and case control association study. Neurology 2005; 65:696-700. [PMID: 16157901 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000167552.79769.b3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In addition to the four well-confirmed genes linked to early-onset Parkinson disease (PD) (SNCA, PARKIN, DJ-1, and PINK1), mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2) have recently been identified in families with autosomal dominant late-onset PD. OBJECTIVE To perform mutation analysis of LRRK2 in probands of families showing dominant inheritance of PD and to conduct a case control association study to test the hypothesis that common coding variations might be associated with increased susceptibility to PD. METHODS All 51 LRRK2 coding exons were sequenced in 23 probands and the mutation frequencies were evaluated in 180 neurologically normal control subjects. For the association study the authors genotyped four coding LRRK2 polymorphisms in 250 normal control subjects and 121 patients with PD (predominantly white patients of Canadian origin), 84% of whom had age at onset before 50 years and 42% had a positive family history. RESULTS The authors identified three probands with heterozygous LRRK2 mutations: two of them have the known G2019S substitution and one proband has a novel I1371V substitution. Mutation analysis of a large family demonstrated complete segregation of the G2019S with PD. However, there was no association between PD and any of the four polymorphisms at the allelic or genotypic levels (p > 0.17). Furthermore, the authors did not detect a modifying effect for any genotype or of APOE genotypes upon the age at onset in the PD group (p > 0.20). CONCLUSIONS The results support the prior suggestion that LRRK2 mutations cause PD. The disease in the families reported here presents a phenotype indistinguishable from typical PD. All three families demonstrate a very variable age at onset that is not explained by APOE genotypes. The common coding variations in the LRRK2 gene neither constitute strong PD risk factors nor modify the age at onset; however, the possibility of a modest risk effect remains to be assessed in large datasets.
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- C Paisán-Ruíz
- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Bruni AC, Kawarai T, Spillantini MG, St-George Hyslop PH, Leotta A, Lio S, Foncin JF, El Hachimi KH. Démence fronto-temporale familiale avec inclusions marquées par l’anti-ubiquitine dans le tronc cérébral. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2004; 160:1171-9. [PMID: 15602363 DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(04)71162-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Fronto-temporal dementias (FTD) were described a century ago on the macroscopic basis of frontal and/or temporal lobe atrophy. Progress in neuropathology, immunohistochemistry, biochemistry and genetics has since shown that they are heterogeneous entities, encompassing many different diseases with similar clinical presentations. A few, such as tauopathies due to mutations of the gene coding for tau protein (MAPtau form a well-defined group. Definition and grouping of other types of FTD is still problematic. MATERIAL AND METHOD We studied a family where the mother and 4/8 children were affected with FTD. Clinical presentation was typical of FTD. Onset was ill-defined with early (at age 40 years or less) personality changes. The clinical course was protracted (about 30 years). For a long period, the patients were able to live in the community in spite of obvious signs such as hyperorality and loss of verbal initiative; operative orientation as to place was preserved for a long time: a mute patient was still able to drive. Signs of extrapyramidal or motoneuron involvement were not observed. RESULTS The genetic study failed to detect any mutation in MAPtau; the lod score for flanking markers was positive but not significant. Biochemical study showed no qualitative abnormality in tau protein. Neuropathological study of one affected subject showed brain atrophy (962 g), with elective frontal lobe involvement. Cortical nerve cell loss was more marked in superficial layers and in frontal areas; glia was inconspicuous; pseudolaminar spongiosis was present in the more severely affected zones. No argentophilic "Pick bodies" were seen; ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative round inclusions were present in the cytoplasm of fascia dentata neurones. "Tangles" were mostly restricted to the entorhinal cortex, partly correlated with tau immunoreactivity, but better with ubiquitin immunoreactivity. Large, ovoid or reniform, moderately dense, spongy, granular or filamentous argentophilic cytoplasmic nerve cell inclusions were observed. They were ubiquitin-positive, but did not react with other antibodies, particularly anti-tau. They were present in swollen nerve cells in the deeper cortical layers but were most conspicuous in the brain stem: in the magnocellular reticular nuclei (e.g. nucleus centralis pontis), in the pes pontis, in the inferior olive and in motor nuclei, especially in the trigeminal motor nucleus. They were not associated with nerve cell loss, atrophy nor pycnosis. Cerebellar relay nuclei neurones were swollen, and their cytoplasm contained argentophilic filaments. CONCLUSION In our opinion, "ubiquitinopathy" would be non-specific and "Motor Neuron Disease-Inclusion Dementia" (MNDID) would not be satisfactory as a diagnosis for the present cases of FTD. Hopefully, progress in genetics may allow a causal, and thence definitive, classification.
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- A C Bruni
- Centro Regionale di Neurogenetica, Lamezia Terme CZ, Italie
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Lee JH, Mayeux R, Mayo D, Mo J, Santana V, Williamson J, Flaquer A, Ciappa A, Rondon H, Estevez P, Lantigua R, Kawarai T, Toulina A, Medrano M, Torres M, Stern Y, Tycko B, Rogaeva E, George-Hyslop PS, Knowles JA. Fine mapping of 10q and 18q for familial Alzheimer's disease in Caribbean Hispanics. Mol Psychiatry 2004; 9:1042-51. [PMID: 15241431 PMCID: PMC1578737 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Familial Alzheimer's disease (AD [MIM 104300]) has been a focus of intense investigation, primarily in Caucasian families from Europe and North America families. Although the late-onset form of familial AD, beginning after age 65 years, has been linked to regions on chromosomes 10q and 12p, the specific genetic variants have not yet been consistently identified. Using a unique cohort of families of Caribbean Hispanics ancestry, we screened the genome using 340 markers on 490 family members from 96 families with predominantly late-onset AD. We observed the strongest support for linkage on 18q (LOD=3.14). However, 17 additional markers (chromosomes 1-6, 8, 10, 12, and 14) exceeded a two-point LOD score of 1.0 under the affecteds-only autosomal dominant model or affected sibpair model. As we previously reported the fine-mapping effort on 12p showing modest evidence of linkage, we focused our fine-mapping efforts on two other candidate regions in the current report, namely 10q and 18q. We added 31 family members and eight additional Caribbean Hispanic families to fine map 10q and 18q. With additional microsatellite markers, the evidence for linkage for 18q strengthened near 112 cM, where the two-point LOD score for D18S541 was 3.37 and the highest NPL score in that region was 3.65 (P=0.000177). This narrow region contains a small number of genes expressed in the brain. However, at 10q (134-138 cM), the NPL score decreased from 3.15 (P=0.000486) to 2.1 (P=0.0218), but two broad peaks remained overlapping with previously reported peaks. Our results provide modest support for linkage on 10q and 12p in this cohort of Caribbean Hispanic families with familial Alzheimer's disease, and strong evidence for a new locus on 18q.
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- JH Lee
- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Neurology, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
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- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Plaza de la Salud Hospital, Dominican Republic
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- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto and Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto and Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago, Dominican Republic
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- The Plaza de la Salud Hospital, Dominican Republic
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Neurology, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto and Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto and Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, USA
- The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
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Orlacchio A, Gaudiello F, Totaro A, Floris R, St George-Hyslop PH, Bernardi G, Kawarai T. A new SPG4 mutation in a variant form of spastic paraplegia with congenital arachnoid cysts. Neurology 2004; 62:1875-8. [PMID: 15159500 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000125324.32082.d9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The clinical and genetic findings are described for 16 patients from a large Italian family with a variant form of hereditary spastic paraplegia and congenital arachnoid cysts inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. A molecular study has revealed a novel missense mutation, T614I, in exon 17 of SPG4, which may play a role in both focal cortical dysgenesis and neurodegeneration of the motor neurons in the corticospinal tract.
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- A Orlacchio
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
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Atsumi T, Fujisawa S, Nakabayashi Y, Kawarai T, Yasui T, Tonosaki K. Pleasant feeling from watching a comical video enhances free radical-scavenging capacity in human whole saliva. J Psychosom Res 2004; 56:377-9. [PMID: 15046977 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3999(03)00064-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2002] [Accepted: 03/04/2003] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Free radicals have been implicated in aging, mutagenesis, inflammation and other pathological conditions. We conducted a study to clarify the relation between a pleasant feeling as a psychological eustress and free radical-scavenging capacity (FRSC) in saliva. METHODS Saliva was collected from 27 healthy volunteers. FRSC before, during and after watching a cheerful comical video for 30 min was measured by using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH). RESULTS The median values of FRSC (micromol/ml) before, at 10 and 20 min during and after watching the video were 54.5, 66.8, 66.6 and 69.4, respectively. The FRSC values obtained after watching the video were significantly higher than those before watching it (P<.001). When the FRSC before watching was taken as 1, the value for the group that felt "Very good," "Good" or "Ordinary+Dull" while watching the video for 30 min was 1.38, 1.20 or 0.98, respectively (P<.01). CONCLUSION Watching a comical video enhanced the FRSC in saliva; in addition, a pleasant feeling boosted it even more.
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- T Atsumi
- Department of Oral Physiology, Meikai University School of Dentistry, 1-1, Keyakidai, Sakado, Saitama 350-0283, Japan.
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Furukawa S, Watanabe T, Tai T, Hirata J, Narisawa N, Kawarai T, Ogihara H, Yamasaki M. Effect of high pressure gaseous carbon dioxide on the germination of bacterial spores. Int J Food Microbiol 2004; 91:209-13. [PMID: 14996465 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1605(03)00372-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2002] [Revised: 06/05/2003] [Accepted: 06/16/2003] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Effect of high pressure gaseous carbon dioxide treatment (HGCT) at 6.5 MPa, 35 degrees C on the germination of bacterial spores was investigated. Germination of bacterial spores was estimated by the decrease of heat tolerance. Approximately, 40% of Bacillus coagulans and 70% of Bacillus licheniformis were germinated by HGCT for 120 min at 35 degrees C, respectively. Germination was confirmed by phase contrast microscopy. The effect of hydrostatic pressure treatment (HPT) at 6.5 MPa, 35 degrees C on the germination of B. coagulans and B. licheniformis spores were also investigated. Spores did not germinate by HPT alone at 6.5 MPa for 120 min.
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- S Furukawa
- Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, 1866, Kameino, Fujisawa 252-8510, Japan.
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Kawarai T, Wachi M, Ogino H, Furukawa S, Suzuki K, Ogihara H, Yamasaki M. SulA-independent filamentation of Escherichia coli during growth after release from high hydrostatic pressure treatment. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2003; 64:255-62. [PMID: 14566433 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1465-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2003] [Revised: 08/05/2003] [Accepted: 09/12/2003] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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To improve the efficiency of sterilization by high hydrostatic pressure treatment (HPT), it is desirable to know the biochemical process of bacteria most sensitive to the treatment. We investigated growth properties after release from HPT of exponentially growing Escherichia coli K-12 cells. We observed growth retardation after treatment (30 min at 37 degrees C) above 75 MPa. Long filamentous cells of about eight times normal cell length were observed at 90 min growth after treatment at 75 MPa. In the subsequent period the filamentous cells divided into normal-sized cells. recA and sulA mutant strains also formed filamentous cells, indicating that filamentation was SulA-independent. Nucleoids segregated normally in the filamentous cells. Only one FtsZ ring (or none) was detected at possible division sites in the elongated cells. Western blotting analysis demonstrated that the amount of FtsZ protein was not affected by the treatment. GTP-dependent in vitro polymerization of either FtsZ protein in E. coli crude extract or purified FtsZ protein, however, was sensitive to HPT. These facts suggest that HPT at 75 MPa denatures a fraction of FtsZ molecules, and that these denatured molecules interfere with the polymerization of functional FtsZ, resulting in the significantly reduced number of FtsZ rings.
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- T Kawarai
- Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kameino 1866, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan
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Rogaeva E, Bergeron C, Sato C, Moliaka I, Kawarai T, Toulina A, Song YQ, Kolesnikova T, Orlacchio A, Bernardi G, St George-Hyslop PH. PS1 Alzheimer's disease family with spastic paraplegia: The search for a gene modifier. Neurology 2003; 61:1005-7. [PMID: 14557582 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.61.7.1005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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PS1 mutations are associated with classic Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, some families develop AD and spastic paraplegia (SP) with brain pathology characterized by Abeta cotton wool plaques. The authors report a variant AD family with the E280Q PS1 mutation. The fact that the same PS1 mutation can be found in patients with either variant or classic AD argues in favor of the presence of a genetic modifier. The authors have excluded that this modifier effect originates from coding sequence variations in three SP genes or from a second mutation in the other AD genes.
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- E Rogaeva
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, and Department of Medicine (Division of Neurology), Ontario, Canada.
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Orlacchio A, Kawarai T, Rogaeva E, Song YQ, Paterson AD, Bernardi G, St George-Hyslop PH. Clinical and genetic study of a large Italian family linked to SPG12 locus. Neurology 2002; 59:1395-401. [PMID: 12427890 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000031423.43482.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Seven loci for autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (ADHSP) have been mapped. To date, two families of SPG12 (chromosome 19q13) have been analyzed; however, there is not enough clinical information on SPG12 to establish locus-phenotype correlations. METHODS The authors studied 60 individuals from a large Italian family with ADHSP, in which 16 members in four generations were affected. They performed genetic linkage analysis with DNA markers from currently known ADHSP loci. After database searching, one candidate gene for SPG12 was analyzed by sequencing. RESULTS The patients in this family showed an early onset and rapid progression of symptoms, resulting in severe disability, with a large proportion of affected members requiring use of a wheelchair. By age 16, most patients had sensory disturbance. Evidence for linkage to the SPG12 locus was obtained. Obligate recombination events observed in this family have narrowed the SPG12 locus from the 16.1 cM to 11.3 cM region between markers D19S416 and D19S412. In combination with previous genetic studies, the SPG12 locus was further narrowed to the 3.3 cM region between D19S416 and D19S220. A homologue of the AAA (ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities) protein family, proteasome 26S subunit ATPase mapped near D19S220, was excluded by sequencing. CONCLUSIONS This study refined the SPG12 region between D19S416 and D19S220 and revealed several clinical characteristics-early onset, rapid progression, and involvement of sensory disturbance-that may be unique to SPG12. Suggestive evidence of genetic anticipation was obtained, but should be confirmed in other SPG12 families.
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- A Orlacchio
- Laboratorio di Neurogenetica, I.R.C.C.S. Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
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Curcio SAM, Kawarai T, Paterson AD, Maletta RG, Puccio G, Perri M, Di Natale M, Palermo S, Foncin JF, Hyslop PHSG, Bruni AC. A large Calabrian kindred segregating frontotemporal dementia. J Neurol 2002; 249:911-22. [PMID: 12140677 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-002-0759-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) displays significant neuropathological and genetic heterogeneity among and within affected families. An early diagnosis is often difficult because cognitive symptoms are manifest only at a late stage of the disease. We have been studying a large pedigree segregating frontotemporal dementia (FTD) to which belong 34 identified affected persons, 11 of whom were personally examined. The kindred has been genealogically reconstructed; all FTD patients have been linked to the same ancestors who lived in the early 18(th) century (11 generations before the present one). Autosomal dominant transmission was evident. Clinical features were uniform within the kindred and met the Lund-Manchester criteria. Personality changes with absence of insight, lack of empathy and of social awareness manifested up to 5 years before medical advice was sought. Loss of fluency was the earliest neuropsychological sign, in the absence of memory, orientation and praxis deficits, which evolved late, together with hyperorality. Akinesia was observed early, rigidity appeared late, tremor was absent. Two patients showed myoclonus late in their evolution. No ALS signs were observed in this kindred. Mutations of the MAPt gene, coding for the Tau protein, were not detected in affected family members. Linkage studies excluded chromosomes 3 and 9 and gave indeterminate results that were model dependent for chromosome 17.
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- S A M Curcio
- Centro Regionale di Neurogenetica, ASL 6 Viale A. Perugini, 88046 Lamezia Terme (CZ) Italy
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Athan ES, Williamson J, Ciappa A, Santana V, Romas SN, Lee JH, Rondon H, Lantigua RA, Medrano M, Torres M, Arawaka S, Rogaeva E, Song YQ, Sato C, Kawarai T, Fafel KC, Boss MA, Seltzer WK, Stern Y, St George-Hyslop P, Tycko B, Mayeux R. A founder mutation in presenilin 1 causing early-onset Alzheimer disease in unrelated Caribbean Hispanic families. JAMA 2001; 286:2257-63. [PMID: 11710891 DOI: 10.1001/jama.286.18.2257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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CONTEXT Genetic determinants of Alzheimer disease (AD) have not been comprehensively examined in Caribbean Hispanics, a population in the United States in whom the frequency of AD is higher compared with non-Hispanic whites. OBJECTIVE To identify variant alleles in genes related to familial early-onset AD among Caribbean Hispanics. DESIGN AND SETTING Family-based case series conducted in 1998-2001 at an AD research center in New York, NY, and clinics in the Dominican Republic. PATIENTS Among 206 Caribbean Hispanic families with 2 or more living members with AD who were identified, 19 (9.2%) had at least 1 individual with onset of AD before the age of 55 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The entire coding region of the presenilin 1 gene and exons 16 and 17 of the amyloid precursor protein gene were sequenced in probands from the 19 families and their living relatives. RESULTS A G-to-C nucleotide change resulting in a glycine-alanine amino acid substitution at codon 206 (Gly206Ala) in exon 7 of presenilin 1 was observed in 23 individuals from 8 (42%) of the 19 families. A Caribbean Hispanic individual with the Gly206Ala mutation and early-onset familial disease was also found by sequencing the corresponding genes of 319 unrelated individuals in New York City. The Gly206Ala mutation was not found in public genetic databases but was reported in 5 individuals from 4 Hispanic families with AD referred for genetic testing. None of the members of these families were related to one another, yet all carriers of the Gly206Ala mutation tested shared a variant allele at 2 nearby microsatellite polymorphisms, indicating a common ancestor. No mutations were found in the amyloid precursor protein gene. CONCLUSIONS The Gly206Ala mutation was found in 8 of 19 unrelated Caribbean Hispanic families with early-onset familial AD. This genetic change may be a prevalent cause of early-onset familial AD in the Caribbean Hispanic population.
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- E S Athan
- The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Nicolaou M, Song YQ, Sato CA, Orlacchio A, Kawarai T, Medeiros H, Liang Y, Sorbi S, Richard E, Rogaev EI, Moliaka Y, Bruni AC, Jorge R, Percy M, Duara R, Farrer LA, St Georg-Hyslop P, Rogaeva EA. Mutations in the open reading frame of the beta-site APP cleaving enzyme (BACE) locus are not a common cause of Alzheimer's disease. Neurogenetics 2001; 3:203-6. [PMID: 11714100 DOI: 10.1007/s100480100123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The gene encoding the beta-site APP cleaving enzyme (BACE), one of two enzymes that sequentially cleave the beta-amyloid precursor protein to generate Abeta, has recently been cloned. We tested the hypothesis that BACE might be genetically associated with AD by linkage analysis (56 pedigrees), by direct nucleotide sequencing of the entire open reading frame (20 subjects with familial AD, and 10 subjects with sporadic AD) and by allelic association analysis (155 AD cases and 173 non-demented controls). Our results revealed no evidence for either genetic linkage or allelic association between BACE and AD, and no coding sequence mutations were detected in the open reading frame of the BACE gene. These data suggest that while BACE protein plays an important role in the pathogenesis of AD, and may be a robust therapeutic target, it is unlikely to be a major AD susceptibility locus.
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- M Nicolaou
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118, USA
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Chen F, Yu G, Arawaka S, Nishimura M, Kawarai T, Yu H, Tandon A, Supala A, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Milman P, Sato C, Yu C, Janus C, Lee J, Song L, Zhang L, Fraser PE, St George-Hyslop PH. Nicastrin binds to membrane-tethered Notch. Nat Cell Biol 2001; 3:751-4. [PMID: 11483961 DOI: 10.1038/35087069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The presenilins and nicastrin, a type 1 transmembrane glycoprotein, form high molecular weight complexes that are involved in cleaving the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) and Notch in their transmembrane domains. The former process (termed gamma-secretase cleavage) generates amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta), which is involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. The latter process (termed S3-site cleavage) generates Notch intracellular domain (NICD), which is involved in intercellular signalling. Nicastrin binds both full-length betaAPP and the substrates of gamma-secretase (C99- and C83-betaAPP fragments), and modulates the activity of gamma-secretase. Although absence of the Caenorhabditis elegans nicastrin homologue (aph-2) is known to cause an embryonic-lethal glp-1 phenotype, the role of nicastrin in this process has not been explored. Here we report that nicastrin binds to membrane-tethered forms of Notch (substrates for S3-site cleavage of Notch), and that, although mutations in the conserved 312-369 domain of nicastrin strongly modulate gamma-secretase, they only weakly modulate the S3-site cleavage of Notch. Thus, nicastrin has a similar role in processing Notch and betaAPP, but the 312-369 domain may have differential effects on these activities. In addition, we report that the Notch and betaAPP pathways do not significantly compete with each other.
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- F Chen
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases; Departments of Medicine and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, 6 Queen's Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H2, Canada
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Yu G, Chen F, Nishimura M, Steiner H, Tandon A, Kawarai T, Arawaka S, Supala A, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Holmes E, Zhang DM, Milman P, Fraser P, Haass C, St George-Hyslop P. Mutation of conserved aspartates affect maturation of presenilin 1 and presenilin 2 complexes. Acta Neurol Scand Suppl 2001; 176:6-11. [PMID: 11261807 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2000.00301.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Presenilin (PS1 and PS2) holoproteins are transiently incorporated into low molecular weight (MW) complexes. During subsequent incorporation into a higher MW complex, they undergo endoproteolysis to generate stable N- and C-terminal fragments (NTF/CTF). Mutation of either of two conserved aspartate residues in transmembrane domains inhibits both presenilin-endoproteolysis and the proteolytic processing of APP and Notch. We show that aspartate-mutant holoprotein presenilins are not incorporated into the high molecular weight, NTF/CTF-containing complexes. Aspartate-mutant presenilin holoproteins also preclude entry of endogenous wild-type PS1/PS2 into the high molecular weight complexes, but do not affect the incorporation of wild-type holoproteins into lower molecular weight holoprotein complexes. These data suggest that the loss-of-function aspartate-mutants cause altered PS complex maturation, and argue that the functional presenilin moieties are contained in the high molecular weight presenilin NTF/CTF-containing complexes.
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- G Yu
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Medical, Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Lippa CF, Zhukareva V, Kawarai T, Uryu K, Shafiq M, Nee LE, Grafman J, Liang Y, St George-Hyslop PH, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VMY. Frontotemporal dementia with novel tau pathology and a Glu342Valtau mutation. Ann Neurol 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(200012)48:6<850::aid-ana5>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Lippa CF, Zhukareva V, Kawarai T, Uryu K, Shafiq M, Nee LE, Grafman J, Liang Y, St George-Hyslop PH, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM. Frontotemporal dementia with novel tau pathology and a Glu342Val tau mutation. Ann Neurol 2000; 48:850-8. [PMID: 11117541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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It is unclear how tau gene mutations cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), but those in exon 10 (E10) or the following intron may be pathogenic by altering E10 splicing, perturbing the normal 1:1 ratio of four versus three microtubule-binding repeat tau (4R:3R tau ratio) and forming tau inclusions. We report on a 55-year old woman with frontotemporal dementia and a family history of FTDP-17 in whom we found a novel E12 (Glu342Val) tau gene mutation, prominent frontotemporal neuron loss, intracytoplasmic tau aggregates, paired helical tau filaments, increased 4R tau messenger RNA, increased 4R tau without E2 or E3 inserts, decreased 4R tau with these inserts, and a 4R:3R tau ratio greater than 1 in gray and white matter. Thus, this novel Glu342Val mutation may cause FTDP-17 by unprecedented mechanisms that alter splicing of E2, E3, and E10 to preferentially increase 4R tau without amino terminal inserts and promote aggregation of tau filaments into cytopathic inclusions.
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- C F Lippa
- Department of Neurology, Medical College of Pennsylvania- Hahnemann University, Philadelphia 19129, USA
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Chen F, Yang DS, Petanceska S, Yang A, Tandon A, Yu G, Rozmahel R, Ghiso J, Nishimura M, Zhang DM, Kawarai T, Levesque G, Mills J, Levesque L, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Westaway D, Mount H, Gandy S, St George-Hyslop P, Fraser PE. Carboxyl-terminal fragments of Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein accumulate in restricted and unpredicted intracellular compartments in presenilin 1-deficient cells. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:36794-802. [PMID: 10962005 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006986200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Absence of functional presenilin 1 (PS1) protein leads to loss of gamma-secretase cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP), resulting in a dramatic reduction in amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) production and accumulation of alpha- or beta-secretase-cleaved COOH-terminal fragments of betaAPP (alpha- or beta-CTFs). The major COOH-terminal fragment (CTF) in brain was identified as betaAPP-CTF-(11-98), which is consistent with the observation that cultured neurons generate primarily Abeta-(11-40). In PS1(-/-) murine neurons and fibroblasts expressing the loss-of-function PS1(D385A) mutant, CTFs accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and lysosomes, but not late endosomes. There were some subtle differences in the subcellular distribution of CTFs in PS1(-/-) neurons as compared with PS1(D385A) mutant fibroblasts. However, there was no obvious redistribution of full-length betaAPP or of markers of other organelles in either mutant. Blockade of endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi trafficking indicated that in PS1(-/-) neurons (as in normal cells) trafficking of betaAPP to the Golgi compartment is necessary before alpha- and beta-secretase cleavages occur. Thus, although we cannot exclude a specific role for PS1 in trafficking of CTFs, these data argue against a major role in general protein trafficking. These results are more compatible with a role for PS1 either as the actual gamma-secretase catalytic activity or in other functions indirectly related to gamma-secretase catalysis (e.g. an activator of gamma-secretase, a substrate adaptor for gamma-secretase, or delivery of gamma-secretase to betaAPP-containing compartments).
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- F Chen
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medical Biophysics and Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Zhang DM, Levitan D, Yu G, Nishimura M, Chen F, Tandon A, Kawarai T, Arawaka S, Supala A, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Liang Y, Holmes E, Milman P, Sato C, Zhang L, St George-Hyslop P. Mutation of the conserved N-terminal cysteine (Cys92) of human presenilin 1 causes increased A beta42 secretion in mammalian cells but impaired Notch/lin-12 signalling in C. elegans. Neuroreport 2000; 11:3227-30. [PMID: 11043553 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200009280-00035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The presenilin proteins are involved in the proteolytic processing of transmembrane proteins such as Notch/lin-12 and the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP). Mutation of a conserved cysteine (Cys60Ser) in the C. elegans presenilin sel-12 has a loss-of-function effect on Notch/lin-12 processing similar to that of null mutations in sel-12. In contrast, in mammalian cells, most missense mutations increase gamma-secretase cleavage of betaAPP. We report here that mutation of this conserved cysteine (Cys92Ser) in human presenilin 1 confers a loss-of-function effect in C. elegans, but causes increased A beta42 secretion in mammalian cells. These data suggest that the role of presenilins in Notch/lin-12 signalling and betaAPP processing are either separately regulated activities or independent activities of the presenilins.
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- D M Zhang
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Medicine (Neurology), The University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Yu G, Nishimura M, Arawaka S, Levitan D, Zhang L, Tandon A, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Chen F, Kawarai T, Supala A, Levesque L, Yu H, Yang DS, Holmes E, Milman P, Liang Y, Zhang DM, Xu DH, Sato C, Rogaev E, Smith M, Janus C, Zhang Y, Aebersold R, Farrer LS, Sorbi S, Bruni A, Fraser P, St George-Hyslop P. Nicastrin modulates presenilin-mediated notch/glp-1 signal transduction and betaAPP processing. Nature 2000; 407:48-54. [PMID: 10993067 DOI: 10.1038/35024009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 697] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Nicastrin, a transmembrane glycoprotein, forms high molecular weight complexes with presenilin 1 and presenilin 2. Suppression of nicastrin expression in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos induces a subset of notch/glp-1 phenotypes similar to those induced by simultaneous null mutations in both presenilin homologues of C. elegans (sel-12 and hop-1). Nicastrin also binds carboxy-terminal derivatives of beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP), and modulates the production of the amyloid beta-peptide (A beta) from these derivatives. Missense mutations in a conserved hydrophilic domain of nicastrin increase A beta42 and A beta40 peptide secretion. Deletions in this domain inhibit A beta production. Nicastrin and presenilins are therefore likely to be functional components of a multimeric complex necessary for the intramembranous proteolysis of proteins such as Notch/GLP-1 and betaAPP.
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- G Yu
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, and Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Yu G, Chen F, Nishimura M, Steiner H, Tandon A, Kawarai T, Arawaka S, Supala A, Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Holmes E, Zhang DM, Milman P, Fraser PE, Haass C, George-Hyslop PS. Mutation of conserved aspartates affects maturation of both aspartate mutant and endogenous presenilin 1 and presenilin 2 complexes. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:27348-53. [PMID: 10856299 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002982200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Presenilin (PS1 and PS2) holoproteins are transiently incorporated into low molecular weight (MW) complexes. During subsequent incorporation into a higher MW complex, they undergo endoproteolysis to generate stable N- and C-terminal fragments. Mutation of either of two conserved aspartate residues in transmembrane domains inhibits both presenilin-endoproteolysis and the proteolytic processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein and Notch. We show that although PS1/PS2 endoproteolysis is not required for inclusion into the higher MW N- and C-terminal fragment-containing complex, aspartate mutant holoprotein presenilins are not incorporated into the high MW complexes. Aspartate mutant presenilin holoproteins also preclude entry of endogenous wild type PS1/PS2 into the high MW complexes but do not affect the incorporation of wild type holoproteins into lower MW holoprotein complexes. These data suggest that the loss of function effects of the aspartate mutants result in altered PS complex maturation and argue that the functional presenilin moieties are contained in the high molecular weight complexes.
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- G Yu
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Departments of Medical Biophysics and Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Orlacchio A, Kawarai T, Massaro AM, St George-Hyslop PH, Sorbi S. Absence of linkage between familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and copper chaperone for the superoxide dismutase gene locus in two Italian pedigrees. Neurosci Lett 2000; 285:83-6. [PMID: 10793232 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01032-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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We investigated the segregation of the copper chaperone for the superoxide dismutase (CCS) gene in two Italian families with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lacking the mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 gene. We analyzed a total of 56 individuals; six people were affected. Diagnoses were made using the El Escorial criteria. The results of our study provide no evidence of a linkage between markers flanking the CCS gene and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) in these FALS kindreds.
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- A Orlacchio
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tanz Neuroscience Building, University of Toronto, 6 Queen's Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Morino H, Kawarai T, Izumi Y, Kazuta T, Oda M, Komure O, Udaka F, Kameyama M, Nakamura S, Kawakami H. A single nucleotide polymorphism of dopamine transporter gene is associated with Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol 2000; 47:528-31. [PMID: 10762168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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We identified two polymorphisms out of all coding regions of the dopamine transporter gene. One existed in exon 9 (1215A/G) and another in exon 15 (1898T/C). The 1215G was significantly less frequent among patients with Parkinson's disease than the controls. Although the polymorphism caused no amino acid substitution, we concluded that it was associated with decreasing the susceptibility to Parkinson's disease through mechanisms other than the protein function of dopamine transporter.
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- H Morino
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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Kertesz A, Kawarai T, Rogaeva E, St George-Hyslop P, Poorkaj P, Bird TD, Munoz DG. Familial frontotemporal dementia with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions. Neurology 2000; 54:818-27. [PMID: 10690970 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.4.818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features, neuropathology, and genetic studies in a family with autosomal dominant frontotemporal dementia (FTD). BACKGROUND Clinical Pick's disease, or FTD with parkinsonism, has been described in several families linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Most of these have shown tau protein mutations. The clinical and pathologic variations in these families resemble the spectrum of sporadic FTD or "Pick complex." METHODS Clinical and behavioral analysis of the affected members with extensive histochemical and neuropathologic description of three cases, genetic analysis of three clinically affected members and seven at risk members to assess linkage to chromosome 17, and sequencing of the tau gene in two patients were performed. RESULTS The clinical pattern shows a highly stereotypic disinhibition dementia with late extrapyramidal features, progressive mutism, and terminal dysphagia in three generations of affected individuals. Neuropathology showed frontotemporal atrophy, and microscopically tau- and synuclein-negative and ubiquitin-positive neuronal inclusions, in the background of superficial cortical spongiosis, neuronal loss, and gliosis. Tau expression was restricted to oligodendroglia. All exons and surrounding introns of the tau gene were sequenced, and no mutation or disease-related polymorphisms were detected in either of two affected pedigree members. CONCLUSION This family with autosomal dominant frontotemporal dementia (FTD) shows no tau expression in neurons. The ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions have been described before in FTD with and without motor neuron disease, but not in a familial form. The clinical and some pathologic features are similar to those of several of the families included in descriptions of FTD with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17, but the linkage to tau has been excluded. The defect in this family, however, could be functionally related to tau mutations.
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- A Kertesz
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, St. Joseph's Health Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Rogaeva EA, Premkumar S, Grubber J, Serneels L, Scott WK, Kawarai T, Song Y, Hill DL, Abou-Donia SM, Martin ER, Vance JJ, Yu G, Orlacchio A, Pei Y, Nishimura M, Supala A, Roberge B, Saunders AM, Roses AD, Schmechel D, Crane-Gatherum A, Sorbi S, Bruni A, Small GW, Conneally PM, Haines JL, Van Leuven F, St George-Hyslop PH, Farrer LA, Pericak-Vance MA. An alpha-2-macroglobulin insertion-deletion polymorphism in Alzheimer disease. Nat Genet 1999; 22:19-22. [PMID: 10319855 DOI: 10.1038/8729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Recent reports have revealed that Nurr1 (also known as NOT/TINUR/RNR-1/HZF-3), a member of the steroid/thyroid hormone nuclear receptor superfamily, is predominantly expressed in the midbrain; substantia nigra (SN) and ventral tegmental area (VTA). Nurr1 null mice are born lethal, lacking the midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons, suggesting that Nurr1 is essential for the development and differentiation of midbrain DA neurons. Human Nurr1 gene has been mapped on chromosome 2q22-23, which is reported to associate weakly with schizophrenia. We cloned and sequenced the human Nurr1 gene, which is approximately 8.3kb long, consisting of eight exons and seven introns. Comparisons of the human Nurr1 with the mouse Nurr1, mouse Nur77 and human NOR-1 revealed that their genomic structures were highly conserved. The 5'-flanking region of the human Nurr1 included three transcriptional regulatory elements, cAMP-response element (CRE), CArG-like element and Sp-1 site, which were surrounded by CpG island, and showed a strong homology with the mouse Nurr1. We performed a primer extension analysis using mRNA from HeLa S3 cells stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), Ca2+ ionophore A23187 and cycloheximide (CHX) in order to induce the Nurr1 mRNA expression, and determined one transcription initiation site within CRE. The transient transfection assay indicates that the regulatory elements in the 5'-flanking region are robust for mitogen-induced expression of the human Nurr1. Further analysis of the polymorphism of the human Nurr1 gene may reveal the association with diseases characterized by changes of the DA system, such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
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- T Torii
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 7348551, Japan
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Nishimura M, Yu G, Levesque G, Zhang DM, Ruel L, Chen F, Milman P, Holmes E, Liang Y, Kawarai T, Jo E, Supala A, Rogaeva E, Xu DM, Janus C, Levesque L, Bi Q, Duthie M, Rozmahel R, Mattila K, Lannfelt L, Westaway D, Mount HT, Woodgett J, St George-Hyslop P. Presenilin mutations associated with Alzheimer disease cause defective intracellular trafficking of beta-catenin, a component of the presenilin protein complex. Nat Med 1999; 5:164-9. [PMID: 9930863 DOI: 10.1038/5526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The presenilin proteins are components of high-molecular-weight protein complexes in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus that also contain beta-catenin. We report here that presenilin mutations associated with familial Alzheimer disease (but not the non-pathogenic Glu318Gly polymorphism) alter the intracellular trafficking of beta-catenin after activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signal transduction pathway. As with their effect on betaAPP processing, the effect of PS1 mutations on trafficking of beta-catenin arises from a dominant 'gain of aberrant function' activity. These results indicate that mistrafficking of selected presenilin ligands is a candidate mechanism for the genesis of Alzheimer disease associated with presenilin mutations, and that dysfunction in the presenilin-beta-catenin protein complexes is central to this process.
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- M Nishimura
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Mitsuoka T, Kawarai T, Watanabe C, Katayama S, Nakamura S. [Comparison of clinical pictures of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with tRNA(Leu(UUR)) mutation in 3243 with that in 3254]. No To Shinkei 1998; 50:1089-92. [PMID: 9989353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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We compared clinical pictures of a case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with tRNA(Leu(UUR)) point mutation at nucleotide position 3254 of mitochondrial DNA with those at position 3243. The mutation 3254 was a 19-year-old male patient with cardiomyopathy accompanied with muscle atrophy. The first mutant 3243 was a 31-year-old female patient showing clinical features of MELAS and endocrinological abnormalities. The second 3243 mutant was a 27-year-old male patient who had an external ophthalmoplegia and slight mental decline. In all cases, muscle biopsy specimen showed ragged red fibers and strongly SDH-reactive blood vessels, but their limb weakness were unremarkable. These results suggest that tRNA(Leu(UUR)) point mutation 3254 exhibits similar clinical phenotypes as those observed in 3243 mutant.
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- T Mitsuoka
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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Rogaeva E, Premkumar S, Song Y, Sorbi S, Brindle N, Paterson A, Duara R, Levesque G, Yu G, Nishimura M, Ikeda M, O'Toole C, Kawarai T, Jorge R, Vilarino D, Bruni AC, Farrer LA, St George-Hyslop PH. Evidence for an Alzheimer disease susceptibility locus on chromosome 12 and for further locus heterogeneity. JAMA 1998; 280:614-8. [PMID: 9718052 DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.7.614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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CONTEXT Alzheimer disease (AD) susceptibility genes have been identified on chromosomes 1, 14, 19, and 21, and a recent study has suggested a locus on chromosome 12. OBJECTIVE To confirm or refute the existence of a familial AD susceptibility locus on chromosome 12 in an independent sample of familial AD cases. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. DNA data for 6 chromosome 12 genetic markers were evaluated using parametric lod score and nonparametric linkage methods and linkage heterogeneity tests. The latter include the admixture test of homogeneity in the total group of families and the predivided sample test in families stratified by the presence or absence of an apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele among affected members. Parametric analyses were repeated assuming autosomal dominant inheritance of AD and either age- and sex-dependent penetrance or zero penetrance for the analysis of unaffected relatives. SETTING Clinical populations in the continental United States, Canada, Argentina, and Italy. PATIENTS Fifty-three white families composed of multiple members affected with AD, from whom DNA samples were obtained from 173 patients with AD whose conditions were diagnosed using established criteria and from 146 nondemented relatives. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Presence of an APOE epsilon4 allele among affected family members. RESULTS Using parametric methods, no evidence for linkage to the region spanned by the chromosome 12 markers could be detected if familial AD is assumed to arise from the same genetic locus in all 53 families. However, significant evidence for linkage was detected in the presence of locus heterogeneity using the admixture test (odds ratio, 15, 135:1). The estimated proportion of linked families within the 53 families examined varied between 0.40 and 0.65, depending on the genetic model assumed and APOE status. The precise location of the AD gene could not be determined, but includes the entire region suggested previously. Nonparametric linkage analysis confirmed linkage to chromosome 12 with the strongest evidence at D12S96 (P<.001). CONCLUSIONS Our data provide independent confirmation of the existence of an AD susceptibility locus on chromosome 12 and suggest the existence of AD susceptibility genes on other chromosomes. Screening a larger set of families with additional chromosome markers will be necessary for identifying the chromosome 12 AD gene.
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- E Rogaeva
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, The Toronto Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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Song YQ, Rogaeva E, Premkumar S, Brindle N, Kawarai T, Orlacchio A, Yu G, Levesque G, Nishimura M, Ikeda M, Pei Y, O'Toole C, Duara R, Barker W, Sorbi S, Freedman M, Farrer L, St George-Hyslop P. Absence of association between Alzheimer disease and the -491 regulatory region polymorphism of APOE. Neurosci Lett 1998; 250:189-92. [PMID: 9708864 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(98)00470-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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A novel polymorphism (-491 A/T) within the regulatory region on the apolipoprotein E gene has recently been reported to be associated with risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). To test this association in an independent data set, we have examined this polymorphism in a sample of 88 well-characterized AD cases and compared the allele frequency and genotype frequencies for this polymorphism with those observed in 112 cognitively normal subjects drawn from the same ethnic group. These results suggest that in the current data set at least, the -491 A/T polymorphism is not associated with risk for AD, but may be in partial linkage disequilibrium with the APOE epsilon2/epsilon3/epsilon4 polymorphism.
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- Y Q Song
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, The Toronto Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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Toji H, Kawakami H, Kawarai T, Nakayama T, Komure O, Kuno S, Nakamura S. No association between apolipoprotein E alleles and olivopontocerebellar atrophy. J Neurol Sci 1998; 158:110-2. [PMID: 9667788 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(98)00099-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Apolipoprotein E (apo E) epsilon4 is a risk factor for sporadic and late-onset familial Alzheimer's disease, but it is not well known whether the apo E is associated with spinocerebellar degeneration. We studied the frequency of apo E allele in 59 olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) patients, including 13 pathologically confirmed cases. The distribution of the apo E allele frequency did not differ between OPCA patients and controls. Apo E allele does not influence the development of OPCA.
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- H Toji
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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The human dopamine transporter (hDAT) is a member of the subfamily of monoamine transporters which show a common topological structure and possess significant amino acid sequence homology. We isolated and characterized the hDAT gene including about 1 kb of 5'-flanking region. The hDAT gene spans over 64 kb, consisting of 15 exons separated by 14 introns. The intron-exon structure of the hDAT gene is most similar to that of the human noradrenaline transporter (hNAT) gene. Promoter sequence analysis demonstrated a 'TATA'-less, 'CAT'-less and G+C-rich structure. Two E box and several Sp-1-binding sites exist in the promoter region. These structural features are similar to that of the human D1A dopamine receptor gene and the human monoamine oxidase A gene. The transcription start site was determined by both 5'-RACE and RNase protection assay. We determined the 5' end of the mRNA by identifying the 5'-terminal cap-G residue in 5'-RACE and RNase protection assay.
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- T Kawarai
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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Kawarai T, Kawakami H, Kozuka K, Izumi Y, Matsuyama Z, Watanabe C, Kohriyama T, Nakamura S. A new mitochondrial DNA mutation associated with mitochondrial myopathy: tRNA(Leu)(UUR) 3254C-to-G. Neurology 1997; 49:598-600. [PMID: 9270605 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.49.2.598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We investigated a patient with mitochondrial myopathy accompanied by cardiomyopathy. Molecular analysis disclosed a C-to-G substitution at nucleotide position 3254 of the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu)(UUR). Pedigree analysis revealed that this mutation was inherited maternally. Mutation C3254G may also be a candidate for genetic defects in mitochondrial myopathy.
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- T Kawarai
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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