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Ziel der Studie war, phosphoryliertes und trunkiertes Alpha-Synuclein in Nervenfasern der Haut zu untersuchen und herauszufinden, ob die posttranslationalen Modifikationen Phosphorylierung und Trunkierung des Alpha-Synucleins als potenzielle Biomarker für eine Diagnosestellung des M. Parkinson geeignet sind. Die Besonderheit der vorliegenden Studie war zum einen, dass ausschließlich Patienten in frühen Erkrankungsstadien (Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadien I und II) des idiopathischen M. Parkinson untersucht wurden und zum anderen der Versuch, die Detektionsrate anhand von Stufenschnitten zu erhöhen.
Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, dass phosphoryliertes Alpha-Synuclein ein hohes Potenzial als Biomarker für die Diagnosestellung und zur Differenzialdiagnostik eines M. Parkinson hat und Stufenschnitte die Nachweisrate deutlich erhöhen können.
In der Immunfluoreszenzdoppelfärbung mit dem Anti-Phospho-Alpha-Synuclein-Antikörper von BioLegend® (San Diego, USA) konnte bei beinahe 80% der Patienten das gesuchte Protein gefunden werden (Nachweisrate Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium I: 58,3%; Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium II: 93,8%), in der Immunfluoreszenzdoppelfärbung mit dem Anti-Phospho-Alpha-Synuclein-Antikörper von Prothena Biosciences Inc (San Francisco, USA) nur in etwas mehr als 46% der Patienten (Nachweisrate Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium I: 41,7%; Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium II: 50%).
In Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium I ist die Sensitivität jedoch noch nicht ausreichend hoch. Da insbesondere in frühen Stadien der Erkrankung eine Differenzierung zwischen atypischen Parkinson-Syndromen und idiopathischem M. Parkinson klinisch sehr schwierig ist, ist jedoch vor allem das frühdiagnostische Potential eines Biomarkers entscheidend. In Hoehn-und-Yahr-Stadium I müsste die Detektionsrate noch erhöht werden, um einen sinnvollen Einsatz des Biomarkers Phospho-Alpha-Synuclein in der Klinik gewährleisten zu können.
Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites are neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD). These depositions in the brain mostly consist of aggregated α-synuclein (α-syn) phosphorylated at Ser129. A number of studies reported detection of phosphorylated α-syn (p-α-syn) in the dermal nerve fibers in Parkinson’s disease. The objective of this study was to investigate whether pathological α-syn accumulations detected in the skin represent aggregated protein. A number of methods aimed at detecting α-syn oligomers and aggregates were first tested and optimized on the brain samples in PD and normal control. These methods included proximity ligation assay (PLA), PET-blot, immunohistochemical (IHC) stains with α-syn aggregate (5G4) or oligomer specific (ASyO5) antibodies and a stain against native α-syn (syn211) after proteinase K (PK) digestion. Subsequently, the most specific methods (stains with 5G4, ASyO5 and syn211 after PK digestion) were studied in two separate patient and control cohorts. Anti-p-α-syn stain was performed in parallel.
Single sections from at least 2 biopsy sites from 44 patients and 22 controls (cohort 1) as well as serial sections of 4 biopsy sites from 27 patients and 5 controls (cohort 2) were systematically studied for presence of aggregated and oligomeric α-syn. In total, 5G4 positive deposits were found in 24% (cohort 1) and 37% (cohort 2), ASyO5 positive lesions in 17,7% (cohort 1) and 33% (cohort 2), syn211 positive lesions after PK digestion in 38,7% (cohort 1) and 48% (cohort 2) of cases. There was a major overlap among positivity for a particular staining on the patient level and in most cases, the same nerve fiber was found to be positive for all 4 markers in neighboring sections. Among the skin biopsies which contained p-α-syn accumulation, 59% were also PK resistant, 41% were 5G4 positive and 45% were ASyO5 positive. The samples belonging to normal controls did not show any positive signal in either of the newly established stainings or in the anti-p-α-syn staining.
Using 3 distinct IHC methods, α-syn oligomers and aggregates were detectable in the majority of p-α-syn positive skin biopsies. This finding supports the hypothesis that α-syn aggregation occurs in the peripheral (i.e. dermal) nerves and can be specifically detected using skin biopsy.