Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Mol Neurodegener. 2024 Aug 6;19(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s13024-024-00749-1.
Lewy body dementia (LBD), a class of disorders comprising Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), features substantial clinical and pathological overlap with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The identification of biomarkers unique to LBD pathophysiology could meaningfully advance its diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment. Using quantitative mass spectrometry (MS), we measured over 9,000 proteins across 138 dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) tissues from a University of Pennsylvania autopsy collection comprising control, Parkinson's disease (PD), PDD, and DLB diagnoses. We then analyzed co-expression network protein alterations in those with LBD, validated these disease signatures in two independent LBD datasets, and compared these findings to those observed in network analyses of AD cases. The LBD network revealed numerous groups or "modules" of co-expressed proteins significantly altered in PDD and DLB, representing synaptic, metabolic, and inflammatory pathophysiology. A comparison of validated LBD signatures to those of AD identified distinct differences between the two diseases. Notably, synuclein-associated presynaptic modules were elevated in LBD but decreased in AD relative to controls. We also found that glial-associated matrisome signatures consistently elevated in AD were more variably altered in LBD, ultimately stratifying those LBD cases with low versus high burdens of concurrent beta-amyloid deposition. In conclusion, unbiased network proteomic analysis revealed diverse pathophysiological changes in the LBD frontal cortex distinct from alterations in AD. These results highlight the LBD brain network proteome as a promising source of biomarkers that could enhance clinical recognition and management.
路易体痴呆症(LBD)是一类包含帕金森病痴呆症(PDD)和路易体痴呆症(DLB)的疾病,其临床表现和病理特征与阿尔茨海默病(AD)有很大的重叠。鉴定出 LBD 病理生理学特有的生物标志物,将有助于其诊断、监测和治疗。本研究采用定量质谱(MS),对宾夕法尼亚大学尸检样本中 138 例背外侧前额叶皮质(DLPFC)组织中的 9000 多种蛋白质进行了测量,这些样本包括对照组、帕金森病(PD)、PDD 和 DLB 患者。然后,我们分析了 LBD 患者中共同表达网络蛋白的改变,在两个独立的 LBD 数据集验证了这些疾病特征,并将这些发现与 AD 病例的网络分析结果进行了比较。LBD 网络揭示了大量的共同表达蛋白“模块”,这些模块在 PDD 和 DLB 中显著改变,代表了突触、代谢和炎症的病理生理学。将验证的 LBD 特征与 AD 的特征进行比较,发现两种疾病之间存在明显的差异。值得注意的是,与对照组相比,突触相关的前突触模块在 LBD 中升高,而在 AD 中则降低。我们还发现,AD 中持续升高的胶质相关基质标志物在 LBD 中改变程度不一,最终对 LBD 病例进行了分层,以区分那些伴有低水平和高水平的同时存在的β-淀粉样蛋白沉积的病例。总之,无偏倚的网络蛋白质组学分析揭示了 LBD 额叶皮层中与 AD 改变不同的多种病理生理学变化。这些结果突出了 LBD 大脑网络蛋白质组作为生物标志物的潜在来源,可能增强临床识别和管理。
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