Identification of a highly neurotoxic α-synuclein species inducing mitochondrial damage and mitophagy in Parkinson's disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Diego GrassiCorinne Ida Lasmézas

Abstract

Exposure of cultured primary neurons to preformed α-synuclein fibrils (PFFs) leads to the recruitment of endogenous α-synuclein and its templated conversion into fibrillar phosphorylated α-synuclein (pα-synF) aggregates resembling those involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis. Pα-synF was described previously as inclusions morphologically similar to Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in PD patients. We discovered the existence of a conformationally distinct, nonfibrillar, phosphorylated α-syn species that we named "pα-syn*." We uniquely describe the existence of pα-syn* in PFF-seeded primary neurons, mice brains, and PD patients' brains. Through immunofluorescence and pharmacological manipulation we showed that pα-syn* results from incomplete autophagic degradation of pα-synF. Pα-synF was decorated with autophagic markers, but pα-syn* was not. Western blots revealed that pα-syn* was N- and C-terminally trimmed, resulting in a 12.5-kDa fragment and a SDS-resistant dimer. After lysosomal release, pα-syn* aggregates associated with mitochondria, inducing mitochondrial membrane depolarization, cytochrome C release, and mitochondrial fragmentation visualized by confocal and stimulated emission depletion nanoscopy. Pα-syn* recru...Continue Reading

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