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Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases

BACKGROUND: The human APOE gene, which codes for apolipoprotein E (apoE), has three major polymorphic alleles: ε2, ε3, and ε4 that give rise to amino acid substitutions. APOE-ε4 is a strong risk factor of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but the reason why is still unknown despite intense research...

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Autores principales: Minta, K., Brinkmalm, G., Janelidze, S., Sjödin, S., Portelius, E., Stomrud, E., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Hansson, O., Andreasson, U.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32054532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-00585-7
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author Minta, K.
Brinkmalm, G.
Janelidze, S.
Sjödin, S.
Portelius, E.
Stomrud, E.
Zetterberg, H.
Blennow, K.
Hansson, O.
Andreasson, U.
author_facet Minta, K.
Brinkmalm, G.
Janelidze, S.
Sjödin, S.
Portelius, E.
Stomrud, E.
Zetterberg, H.
Blennow, K.
Hansson, O.
Andreasson, U.
author_sort Minta, K.
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description BACKGROUND: The human APOE gene, which codes for apolipoprotein E (apoE), has three major polymorphic alleles: ε2, ε3, and ε4 that give rise to amino acid substitutions. APOE-ε4 is a strong risk factor of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but the reason why is still unknown despite intense research for more than 20 years. The aim of the study was to investigate if the concentrations of total apoE and the specific apoE isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) differ between various neurodegenerative diseases and control individuals, as well as among the APOE genotypes. METHODS: Quantification of total apoE and specific apoE isoforms (E2, E3, and E4) in CSF was performed using high-resolution parallel reaction monitoring mass spectrometry. In total, 1820 individuals were involved in the study including clinically diagnosed AD patients (n = 228), cognitively unimpaired (CU) patients (n = 896), and patients with other neurodegenerative disorders (n = 696). Follow-up data was available for 100 individuals, assessed at two time points. Subjects were dichotomized based on an Aβ(42/40) CSF concentration ratio cut-off into Aβ positive (Aβ+, < 0.091) and Aβ negative (Aβ−, > 0.091) groups. RESULTS: Even though there was a significant increase of total apoE in the amyloid β-positive (Aβ+) group compared with amyloid β-negative (Aβ−) individuals (p < 0.001), the magnitude of the effect was very small (AUC = 0.55). Moreover, CSF total apoE concentrations did not differ between Aβ− CU controls and clinically diagnosed AD patients. There was a difference in concentration between isoforms in heterozygous individuals in an isoform-dependent manner (E2 < E3 < E4) (p < 0.001, AUC = 0.64–0.69), and these associations remained when dichotomizing the samples into Aβ+ and Aβ− groups (p < 0.01, AUC = 0.63–0.74). In the cohort with follow-up samples, neither total apoE nor isoform-specific apoE concentrations differed between the two time points (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that neither the concentrations of total apoE nor the different apoE isoforms in CSF are associated with APOE-ε4 carrier status, Aβ status, or clinical dementia diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-70205402020-02-20 Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases Minta, K. Brinkmalm, G. Janelidze, S. Sjödin, S. Portelius, E. Stomrud, E. Zetterberg, H. Blennow, K. Hansson, O. Andreasson, U. Alzheimers Res Ther Research BACKGROUND: The human APOE gene, which codes for apolipoprotein E (apoE), has three major polymorphic alleles: ε2, ε3, and ε4 that give rise to amino acid substitutions. APOE-ε4 is a strong risk factor of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but the reason why is still unknown despite intense research for more than 20 years. The aim of the study was to investigate if the concentrations of total apoE and the specific apoE isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) differ between various neurodegenerative diseases and control individuals, as well as among the APOE genotypes. METHODS: Quantification of total apoE and specific apoE isoforms (E2, E3, and E4) in CSF was performed using high-resolution parallel reaction monitoring mass spectrometry. In total, 1820 individuals were involved in the study including clinically diagnosed AD patients (n = 228), cognitively unimpaired (CU) patients (n = 896), and patients with other neurodegenerative disorders (n = 696). Follow-up data was available for 100 individuals, assessed at two time points. Subjects were dichotomized based on an Aβ(42/40) CSF concentration ratio cut-off into Aβ positive (Aβ+, < 0.091) and Aβ negative (Aβ−, > 0.091) groups. RESULTS: Even though there was a significant increase of total apoE in the amyloid β-positive (Aβ+) group compared with amyloid β-negative (Aβ−) individuals (p < 0.001), the magnitude of the effect was very small (AUC = 0.55). Moreover, CSF total apoE concentrations did not differ between Aβ− CU controls and clinically diagnosed AD patients. There was a difference in concentration between isoforms in heterozygous individuals in an isoform-dependent manner (E2 < E3 < E4) (p < 0.001, AUC = 0.64–0.69), and these associations remained when dichotomizing the samples into Aβ+ and Aβ− groups (p < 0.01, AUC = 0.63–0.74). In the cohort with follow-up samples, neither total apoE nor isoform-specific apoE concentrations differed between the two time points (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that neither the concentrations of total apoE nor the different apoE isoforms in CSF are associated with APOE-ε4 carrier status, Aβ status, or clinical dementia diagnoses. BioMed Central 2020-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7020540/ /pubmed/32054532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-00585-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Minta, K.
Brinkmalm, G.
Janelidze, S.
Sjödin, S.
Portelius, E.
Stomrud, E.
Zetterberg, H.
Blennow, K.
Hansson, O.
Andreasson, U.
Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title_full Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title_fullStr Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title_full_unstemmed Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title_short Quantification of total apolipoprotein E and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
title_sort quantification of total apolipoprotein e and its isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32054532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-00585-7
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