論文

査読有り 国際誌
2018年9月19日

Rapid dissemination of alpha-synuclein seeds through neural circuits in an in-vivo prion-like seeding experiment.

Acta neuropathologica communications
  • Ayami Okuzumi
  • Masaru Kurosawa
  • Taku Hatano
  • Masashi Takanashi
  • Shuuko Nojiri
  • Takeshi Fukuhara
  • Tomoyuki Yamanaka
  • Haruko Miyazaki
  • Saki Yoshinaga
  • Yoshiaki Furukawa
  • Tomomi Shimogori
  • Nobutaka Hattori
  • Nobuyuki Nukina
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開始ページ
96
終了ページ
96
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1186/s40478-018-0587-0

Accumulating evidence suggests that the lesions of Parkinson's disease (PD) expand due to transneuronal spreading of fibrils composed of misfolded alpha-synuclein (a-syn), over the course of 5-10 years. However, the precise mechanisms and the processes underlying the spread of these fibril seeds have not been clarified in vivo. Here, we investigated the speed of a-syn transmission, which has not been a focus of previous a-syn transmission experiments, and whether a-syn pathologies spread in a neural circuit-dependent manner in the mouse brain. We injected a-syn preformed fibrils (PFFs), which are seeds for the propagation of a-syn deposits, either before or after callosotomy, to disconnect bilateral hemispheric connections. In mice that underwent callosotomy before the injection, the propagation of a-syn pathology to the contralateral hemisphere was clearly reduced. In contrast, mice that underwent callosotomy 24 h after a-syn PFFs injection showed a-syn pathology similar to that seen in mice without callosotomy. These results suggest that a-syn seeds are rapidly disseminated through neuronal circuits immediately after seed injection, in a prion-like seeding experiment in vivo, although it is believed that clinical a-syn pathologies take years to spread throughout the brain. In addition, we found that botulinum toxin B blocked the transsynaptic transmission of a-syn seeds by specifically inactivating the synaptic vesicle fusion machinery. This study offers a novel concept regarding a-syn propagation, based on the Braak hypothesis, and also cautions that experimental transmission systems may be examining a unique type of transmission, which differs from the clinical disease state.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-018-0587-0
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30231908
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145187
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1186/s40478-018-0587-0
  • PubMed ID : 30231908
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC6145187

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