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The aim of the investigations was to find to what extent neurodegenerative changes develop in the brains of patients with no clinical symptoms of dementia, parkinsonism and other neurodegenerative diseases. It has been found that neurodegenerative pathology, as evaluated using immunohistochemical methods with monoclonal antibodies (Mab) against ubiquitin, tau protein, alpha-synuclein, and beta-amyloid, occurs more frequently than the presence of Lewy bodies. The degenerative changes involved the neurones of cerebral and cerebellar cortex, basal ganglia and medulla oblongata, where neurofibrillary tangles were found. Mab positive materials have been found in the cytoplasm of the cell body and the cell processes (axons) of the neurones and glial cells. Senile plaques, beta-amyloid positive, were frequently noted.
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PMID:An attempt at evaluating borderline conditions of Parkinson's disease and its preclinical stage on the basis of clinical and morphological correlation. 1223 Feb 57

Approximately 60% of familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases manifest Lewy bodies (LBs), of which a major component is alpha-synuclein. Although the pathogenic role of alpha-synuclein in AD remains unclear, LB formation might be associated with pathological beta-amyloid (Abeta) overproduction. Here, we present the clinical and pathological characteristics of two affected family members from a pedigree with the E184D mutation of presenilin-1. One case presented with typical clinical features of AD, but the other case also developed clinical characteristics of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), including visual hallucinations, delusions, and parkinsonism. In both cases, neuropathological examination revealed numerous neurofibrillary tangles and severe Abeta deposition in senile plaques and amyloid angiopathy, in which Abeta42 rather than Abeta40 was predominant. Furthermore, remarkable alpha-synuclein pathology, including LBs and the accumulation of the non-Abeta component of AD amyloid (NAC) in plaques and astrocytes, was detected only in the case that presented with the symptoms of DLB. These findings suggest that (1) LB pathology can influence the clinical features of familial AD, (2) the E184D mutation of presenilin-1 may be associated with the LB formation through Abeta overproduction, although the process of LB formation is strongly affected by other unknown mechanisms, (3) in neurodegenerative disorders with LBs, there is a common pathophysiological background inducing NAC accumulation in neuritic plaques and astrocytes, and (4) the NAC accumulation in neuritic plaques is modulated by the abnormally aggregated tau protein.
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PMID:NACP/alpha-synuclein, NAC, and beta-amyloid pathology of familial Alzheimer's disease with the E184D presenilin-1 mutation: a clinicopathological study of two autopsy cases. 1241 Mar 85

Molecular chaperones and their functions in protein folding have been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, which are characterized by accumulation of protein aggregates (e.g., alpha-synuclein and huntingtin, respectively). These aggregates have been shown in various experimental systems to respond to changes in levels of molecular chaperones suggesting the possibility of therapeutic intervention and a role for chaperones in disease pathogenesis. It remains unclear whether chaperones also play a role in Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by beta-amyloid and tau protein aggregates. Here, we report an inverse relationship between aggregated tau and the levels of heat shock protein (Hsp)7090 in tau transgenic mouse and Alzheimer's disease brains. In various cellular models, increased levels of Hsp70 and Hsp90 promote tau solubility and tau binding to microtubules, reduce insoluble tau and cause reduced tau phosphorylation. Conversely, lowered levels of Hsp70 and Hsp90 result in the opposite effects. We have also demonstrated a direct association of the chaperones with tau proteins. Our results suggest that up-regulation of molecular chaperones may suppress formation of neurofibrillary tangles by partitioning tau into a productive folding pathway and thereby preventing tau aggregation.
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PMID:Chaperones increase association of tau protein with microtubules. 1252 69

Tau phosphorylation was examined in argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) by using the phosphospecific tau antibodies Thr181, Ser202, Ser214, Ser 396 and Ser422, and antibodies to non-phosphorylated and phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK), stress-activated kinase (SAPK), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), p38 kinase (p-38), alpha-calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (alphaCaM kinase II), and glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3), all of which regulate phosphorylation at specific sites of tau. This is the first study in which the role of protein kinases in tau phosphorylation has been examined in AGD. Hyperphosphorylated tau accumulated in grains and pre-tangles in the hippocampus, dentate gyrus, entorhinal and trans-entorhinal cortices, and amygdala in all cases. Ballooned neurons in the amygdala, entorhinal, insular and cingulate cortex, and claustrum contained alphaB-crystallyn and phosphorylated neurofilament epitopes. Some astrocytes and scattered oligodendrocytes containing coiled bodies were recognized with anti-tau antibodies. A few tangles were observed in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus corresponding to Alzheimer's disease (AD) stages I-III of Braak and Braak. None of the present cases was associated with progressive supranuclear palsy or with alpha-synuclein pathology. Two bands of phospho-tau of 64 and 68 kDa were observed in Western blots of sarkosyl-insoluble fractions enriched with abnormal filaments in AGD, a pattern that contrasts with the 4-band pattern obtained in AD. No modifications in the expression of non-phosphorylated MEK-1, ERK2 and GSK-3alpha/beta, as revealed by immunohistochemistry, were seen in AGD, but sarkosyl-insoluble fractions were particularly enriched in JNK-1 and alphaCaM kinase II. Increased expression of the phosphorylated (P) forms of MAPK/ERK, SAPK/JNK, p38 and GSK-3beta was found in grains and tau-containing cells in AGD. MAPK/ERK-P immunoreactivity was observed in pre-tangles and, diffusely, in the cytoplasm of ballooned neurons, but not in grains. Strong SAPK/JNK-P and P38-P, and moderate GSK-3b-P immunoreactivities selectively occured in grains, in neurons with pre-tangles and in the peripheral region of the cytoplasm of ballooned neurons. MAPK/ERK-P, SAPK/JNK-P, p38-P and GSK-3beta-P were expressed in tau-containing astrocytes and in oligodendrocytes with coiled bodies. Western blots revealed kinase expression in sarkosyl-insoluble fractions but none of the phospho-kinase antibodies recognized hyper-phosphorylated tau protein. These findings indicate complex, specific profiles of tau phosphorylation and concomitant activation of precise kinases that have the capacity to phosphorylate tau at specific sites in AGD. These kinases co-localize abnormal tau in selected structures and cells, including neurons with pre-tangles, ballooned neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. Most of these kinases are involved in cell death and cell survival in certain experimental paradigms. However, double-labeling studies with the method of in situ end-labeling of nuclear DNA fragmentation and cleaved (active) caspase-3 immunohistochemistry show no expression of apoptosis and death markers in cells bearing phosphorylated kinases.
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PMID:Phosphorylated protein kinases associated with neuronal and glial tau deposits in argyrophilic grain disease. 1258 May 46

Sandhoff disease (SD) is a heritable lysosomal storage disease resulting from impaired degradation of GM2 ganglioside. The hallmark pathology of the SD model mouse brain is GM2 ganglioside accumulation in neurons. In the present study, we immunohistochemically investigated the neuronal pathology in SD mouse brains, and demonstrated neuronal accumulation of alpha- and beta-synucleins in addition to GM2 ganglioside. Synuclein-positive neurons were extensively observed throughout SD mouse brains, although the distribution of beta-synuclein was less extensive than that of alpha-synuclein. Synuclein-positive neurons were negative to ubiquitin and PHF-tau. These findings suggest that neuronal synucleins may accumulate secondarily to GM2 ganglioside in SD mouse brains, and that neuronal accumulation of synucleins may be more critical than that of GM2 ganglioside for SD mice.
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PMID:Neuronal accumulation of alpha- and beta-synucleins in the brain of a GM2 gangliosidosis mouse model. 1265 83

The major protein constituent of Lewy bodies (LBs), the pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, is considered to be alpha-synuclein, but other proteins, in particular the microtubule-associated protein tau, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of LBs. Tau is the major structural component of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Both direct immunochemical studies of partially purified LBs and indirect immunohistochemical studies have suggested that LBs may contain tau, but most of these studies were based upon a single tau antibody, and immunologic cross-reactivity was not completely excluded. To gain insight into the relation between tau and alpha-synuclein in LBs, double immunostaining was performed in Lewy body cases with a rabbit polyclonal antibody to alpha-synuclein and a panel of monoclonal antibodies to phospho- and nonphospho-tau epitopes (Alz50, CP9, CP13, PG5, TG3, PHFI) that spanned the length of the tau molecule. Tau-immunoreactive LBs were present in the medulla in 80% of the cases, irrespective of Braak stage. All tau antibodies recognized at least some LBs, arguing against nonspecific antibody cross-reactivity. In most lesions the tau immunostaining was present at the periphery of the LB. The phospho-tau antibody, TG3, detected more LBs than any of the other tau antibodies. The proportion of LBs with tau immunoreactivity was greatest in neurons vulnerable to NETs, such as those in the locus ceruleus and basal nucleus of Meynert, and least in neurons resistant to NFTs, such as the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in the medulla. The present results suggest that tau may coaggregate with alpha-synuclein in LBs, especially in neuronal populations vulnerable to both NFTs and LBs.
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PMID:Colocalization of tau and alpha-synuclein epitopes in Lewy bodies. 1272 31

Quantitative neuropsychiatry has provided increasingly precise descriptions of behavioral phenotypes associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Degenerative diseases of the brain are disturbances of protein metabolism, with failure of protein degredation by the ubiquitin-proteosome system, production of neurotoxic peptide oligomers, and accumulation of intracellular protein deposits. Abnormalities of amyloid beta peptide, alpha-synuclein protein, and hyperphosphorylated tau protein account for more than 90% of degenerative dementias. Functionally related neuroanatomical systems have shared metabolic characteristics and common vulnerabilities to protein dysmetabolism, providing the basis for phenotypes that reflect the underlying proteotype. Patients with alpha-synuclein disorders are particularly prone to hallucinations, delusions, and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. Patients with tauopathies manifest disproportionate disinhibition and apathy, and may exhibit compulsions. Alzheimer's disease is a triple proteinopathy with abnormalities of A-beta, tau, and alpha-synculein leading to a complex behavioral phenotype. This molecular approach to neuropsychiatry may assist in understanding the mechanisms of degenerative diseases, provide insight into the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric symptoms, and contribute to monitoring disease-modifying therapies.
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PMID:Toward a molecular neuropsychiatry of neurodegenerative diseases. 1289 66

Intracellular accumulations of filamentous material composed of tau proteins are defining features of sporadic and familial neurodegenerative disorders termed "tauopathies." In Alzheimer's disease, the most common tauopathy, tau pathology is predominantly localized within neurons; however, robust glial pathology occurs in other tauopathies. Although the pathogenesis of tauopathies remains primarily unknown, molecular chaperones such as heat-shock proteins (HSPs) are implicated in these tau disorders as well as other neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates such as alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease and polyglutamine in Huntington's disease. We analyzed a variety of tauopathies with antibodies to a panel of HSPs to determine their role in the pathogenesis of these disorders. Although HSPs are not found in neuronal tau inclusions, we demonstrate increased expression of the small HSP alphaB-crystallin in glial inclusions of both sporadic and familial tauopathies. alphaB-crystallin was observed in a subset of astrocytic and oligodendrocytic tau inclusions as well as the neuropil thread pathology in cellular processes, but the co-expression of alphaB-crystallin with tau inclusions was relatively specific to tauopathies with extensive glial pathology. Thus, increased alphaB-crystallin expression in glial tau inclusions may represent a response by glia to the accumulation of misfolded or aggregated tau protein that is linked to the pathogenesis of the glial pathology and distinct from mechanisms underlying neuronal tau pathology in neurodegenerative disease.
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PMID:Expression of the small heat-shock protein alphaB-crystallin in tauopathies with glial pathology. 1469 29

Pathological examinations, using a panel of tau and other antibodies, were performed on the brains from 55 consecutively acquired cases of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Clinically, these comprised 31 cases of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), 10 cases of motor neurone disease inclusion dementia (MNDID), seven cases of progressive aphasia (PA), four cases of semantic dementia (SD) and three cases of progressive apraxia (PAX). Tau pathology, in the form of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and glial cell tangles, was present in six cases of FTD with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17, five of these cases resulting from +16 splice-site mutation and one from +13 mutation in the tau gene. The insoluble tau proteins were comprised mostly of four-repeat (4-R) isoforms. Eight other cases of FTD, one of PA and all three cases of PAX showed tau-positive inclusions (Pick bodies) and swollen cells (Pick cells), characteristic of Pick's disease. In these cases, the insoluble tau proteins were present in most instances as three-repeat (3-R) tau isoforms, although two cases with a mixture of 3-R and 4-R isoforms were seen. One other case of FTD showed an unusual pathology characterized by massive extracellular deposition of tau protein, composed of 4-R tau isoforms, within white matter without neuronal or glial cell inclusions. However, 33 (60%) of 55 FTLD cases showed no tau pathology in the brain, except for the rare NFTs, composed of a mix of 3-R and 4-R isoforms, in some of the more elderly cases. Of these 33 cases, 13 had FTD, 10 had MNDID, six had PA and four had SD. The pathological changes present were those of a superficial cortical laminar microvacuolation with mild subpial and subcortical gliosis; the 10 MNDID cases had ubiquitin-positive inclusions in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus. These 33 nontau FTLD cases, along with five Alzheimer's disease (AD) and six Huntington's disease (HD) cases with severe pathology, showed a variable loss of soluble tau proteins, broadly comparable with the extent of neuronal loss from the cortex and loss of the intracortical perikaryal marker, NeuN, but unrelated to proteins within afferent projection fibres such as neurofilament and alpha-synuclein. Levels of tau mRNA were decreased in parallel in the tau-negative FTLD cases and in the severe AD and HD cases. Hence, the loss of tau from these 33 nontau FTLD cases is just one aspect of a neurodegenerative process that destroys many components of the nerve cell machinery and does not represent a specific disordering of the cell's ability to form tau proteins or incorporate these into microtubules.
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PMID:The neuropathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with respect to the cytological and biochemical characteristics of tau protein. 1472 Jan 72

The 20S proteasome is responsible for the degradation of protein substrates implicated in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative disorders, such as alpha-synuclein and tau protein. Here we show that the 20S proteasome isolated from bovine brain directly hydrolyzes, in vitro, the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Furthermore, the DHFR susceptibility to proteolysis is enhanced by oxidative conditions induced by peroxynitrite, mimicking the oxidative environment typical of these disorders. The results obtained suggest that the folate metabolism may be impaired by an increased degradation of DHFR, mediated by the 20S proteasome.
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PMID:20S proteasome mediated degradation of DHFR: implications in neurodegenerative disorders. 1475 4

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