New information about amyloid filaments in neurodegenerative diseases
Date:
March 28, 2022
Source:
Indiana University School of Medicine
Summary:
Researchers have helped identify that a common protein found
in neurodegenerative diseases forms amyloid filaments in an
age-dependent manner without a connection to disease.
FULL STORY ========================================================================== Experts at Indiana University School of Medicine have helped identify
that a common protein found in neurodegenerative diseases forms amyloid filaments in an age-dependent manner without a connection to disease.
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Many age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, are characterized by amyloid abundance, or plaque. In a
new paper published in Nature, researchers from the MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom and colleagues
around the world, including several IU School of Medicine experts,
used electron cryo-microscopy structure determination to discover that lysosomal type II transmembrane protein, TMEM106B, also forms amyloid
filaments in human brains but, uniquely, it forms in an age-dependent
manner and might not be connected to a type of disease.
"Until now, the presence of abundant intraneuronal amyloid filaments in
human tissues has always been associated with disease," said Bernardino
Ghetti, MD, a distinguished professor and professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine at IU School of Medicine. "While TMEM106B has been associated with frontotemporal dementias and other diseases, the evidence
for a causal relationship between TMEM106B aggregation and disease now
remains unclear." Researchers studied 22 individuals with abundant
amyloid deposits, including sporadic and inherited Alzheimer's, as well
as the frontal cortex of three neurologically normal individuals. They
also studied three TMEM106B folds, with no clear relationships between
folds and diseases. The TMEM106B filaments discovered in the brains
of older, but not younger, neurologically normal individuals suggests
that these proteins form in an age-dependent manner and that there
was no clear relationship between protein folds and neurodegenerative
diseases. Previously, TMEM106B has been identified as a risk factor for frontotemporal lobar degeneration, but this research opens the dialogue
as the protein may no longer be associated with the cause of a disease.
"This insight encourages us to further assess the role of filament
formation, like TMEM106B, in relation to human aging and other
pathologies, as well as if they're found outside the nervous system,"
Ghetti said.
The study was supported by National Institutes of Health grants. Other
study authors from IU School of Medicine include Holly Garringer, PhD,
Grace Hallinan, PhD, Kathy Newell, MD and Ruben Vidal, PhD. Previously,
this research group also explored the pathological differences in
inherited versus sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Manuel Schweighauser, Diana Arseni, Mehtap Bacioglu, Melissa
Huang, Sofia
Lo"vestam, Yang Shi, Yang Yang, Wenjuan Zhang, Abhay Kotecha,
Holly J.
Garringer, Ruben Vidal, Grace I. Hallinan, Kathy L. Newell,
Airi Tarutani, Shigeo Murayama, Masayuki Miyazaki, Yuko
Saito, Mari Yoshida, Kazuko Hasegawa, Tammaryn Lashley,
Tamas Revesz, Gabor G. Kovacs, John van Swieten, Masaki Takao,
Masato Hasegawa, Bernardino Ghetti, Maria Grazia Spillantini,
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, Alexey G. Murzin, Michel Goedert, Sjors
H. W. Scheres. Age-dependent formation of TMEM106B amyloid filaments
in human brains. Nature, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04650-z ==========================================================================
Link to news story:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220328160645.htm
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