Screening for proteins with polyglutamine expansions in autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias |
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Authors: | Stevanin G; Trottier Y; Cancel G; Durr A; David G; Didierjean O; Burk K; Imbert G; Saudou F; Abada-Bendib M; Gourfinkel-An I; Benomar A; Abbas N; Klockgether T; Grid D; Agid Y; Mandel JL; Brice A |
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Institution: | INSERM U289, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France. |
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Abstract: | Expansion of trinucleotide CAG repeats coding for polyglutamine has been
implicated in five neurodegenerative disorders, including spinocerebellar
ataxia (SCA) 1 and SCA3 or Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD), two forms of
type I autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCA). Using the 1C2 antibody
which specifically recognizes large polyglutamine tracts, particularly
those that are expanded, we recently reported the detection of proteins
with pathological glutamine expansions in lymphoblasts from another form of
ADCA type I, SCA2, as well as from patients presenting with the distinct
phenotype of ADCA type II. We now have screened a large series of patients
with ADCA or isolated cases with cerebellar ataxia, for the presence of
proteins with polyglutamine expansions. A 150 kDa SCA2 protein was detected
in 16 out of 40 families with ADCA type I. This corresponds to 24% of all
ADCA type I families, which is much more frequent than SCA1 in this series
of patients (13%). The signal intensity of the SCA2 protein was negatively
correlated to age at onset, as expected for an expanded and unstable
trinucleotide repeat mutation. The disease segregated with markers closely
linked to the SCA2 locus in all identified SCA2 families. In addition, a
specific 130 kDa protein, which segregated with the disease, was detected
in lymphoblasts of patients from nine families with ADCA type II. It was
also visualized in the cerebral cortex of one of the patients,
demonstrating its translation in the nervous system. Finally, no new
disease-related proteins containing expanded polyglutamine tracts could be
detected in lymphoblasts from the remaining patients with ADCA or isolated
cases with cerebellar ataxia.
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