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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology

Accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into Lewy bodies (LBs) and mitochondrial abnormalities are the two cardinal pathobiological features of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which are associated with the loss of dopaminergic neurons. Although α-syn accumulates in many different cellular and mouse models, th...

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Autores principales: Diao, Xiaojun, Wang, Fei, Becerra-Calixto, Andrea, Soto, Claudio, Mukherjee, Abhisek
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34572052
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10092402
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author Diao, Xiaojun
Wang, Fei
Becerra-Calixto, Andrea
Soto, Claudio
Mukherjee, Abhisek
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Wang, Fei
Becerra-Calixto, Andrea
Soto, Claudio
Mukherjee, Abhisek
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description Accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into Lewy bodies (LBs) and mitochondrial abnormalities are the two cardinal pathobiological features of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which are associated with the loss of dopaminergic neurons. Although α-syn accumulates in many different cellular and mouse models, these models generally lack LB features. Here, we generated midbrain dopaminergic (mDA) neuronal cultures from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from familial PD (fPD) patients and healthy controls. We show that mDA neuronal cultures from fPD patients with A53T mutation and α-syn gene (SNCA) triplication display pathological α-syn deposits, which spatially and morphologically resemble LBs. Importantly, we did not find any apparent accumulation of pathological α-syn in mDA neuronal culture derived from a healthy donor. Furthermore, we show that there are morphological abnormalities in the mitochondrial network in mDA neuronal cultures from fPD patients. Consequently, these cells were more susceptible to mitochondrial damage compared with healthy donor-derived mDA neuronal cultures. Our results indicate that the iPSC-derived mDA neuronal culture platform can be used to investigate the spatiotemporal appearance of LBs, as well as their composition, architecture, and relationship with mitochondrial abnormalities.
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spelling pubmed-84670692021-09-27 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology Diao, Xiaojun Wang, Fei Becerra-Calixto, Andrea Soto, Claudio Mukherjee, Abhisek Cells Article Accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into Lewy bodies (LBs) and mitochondrial abnormalities are the two cardinal pathobiological features of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which are associated with the loss of dopaminergic neurons. Although α-syn accumulates in many different cellular and mouse models, these models generally lack LB features. Here, we generated midbrain dopaminergic (mDA) neuronal cultures from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from familial PD (fPD) patients and healthy controls. We show that mDA neuronal cultures from fPD patients with A53T mutation and α-syn gene (SNCA) triplication display pathological α-syn deposits, which spatially and morphologically resemble LBs. Importantly, we did not find any apparent accumulation of pathological α-syn in mDA neuronal culture derived from a healthy donor. Furthermore, we show that there are morphological abnormalities in the mitochondrial network in mDA neuronal cultures from fPD patients. Consequently, these cells were more susceptible to mitochondrial damage compared with healthy donor-derived mDA neuronal cultures. Our results indicate that the iPSC-derived mDA neuronal culture platform can be used to investigate the spatiotemporal appearance of LBs, as well as their composition, architecture, and relationship with mitochondrial abnormalities. MDPI 2021-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8467069/ /pubmed/34572052 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10092402 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Diao, Xiaojun
Wang, Fei
Becerra-Calixto, Andrea
Soto, Claudio
Mukherjee, Abhisek
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title_full Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title_fullStr Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title_full_unstemmed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title_short Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Familial Parkinson’s Disease Patients Display α-Synuclein Pathology and Abnormal Mitochondrial Morphology
title_sort induced pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons from familial parkinson’s disease patients display α-synuclein pathology and abnormal mitochondrial morphology
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34572052
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10092402
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