Genes involved in early aging and cognitive loss: is PKU also at risk?

Genes involved in early aging and cognitive
loss:
Dr. Andrea Pilotto
is PKU also at risk?
Prof. Daniela Berg
Prof. Walter
Maetzler
Department of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Hertie Institut for Clinical Brain Research
DZNE German Center For Neurodegenerative
Disorders
Uniklinikum Tübingen
Uniklinikum
Tübingen
Genes involved in early aging and cognitive loss: is PKU also at risk?
Neurodegenerative disorders: genes and proteins
Link between PKU and neurodegenerative disorders
Role of treatment, diet and normal aging
How can we detect neurodegenerative disorders in PKU?
Uniklinikum
Tübingen
PKU
Neurodegenerative disorders
Genes?
Protein aggregation?
proteosome
lysosome
PKU and Neurodegenerative disorders
Really at-risk
population?
Which
neurodegenerative
disorder?
A model for neurodegeneration?
Diet and PKU treatment?
ADULT- ETPKU subjects:
High heterogeneity:
Different mutations
Psycho-Social level and cognition
Diet and treatment duration
Trefz 2011 Mol Genet Metabol
Progressive neuropsychiatric
manifestations of PKU in adulthood
Parkinsonism
Psychiatric involvement
Spastic paraparesis
Many cases had no diet
Thomspon 1990 Lancet
Daelman 2014 Rev Neurol
What is the role of White-Matter (WM)
damage?
Are all WM lesions
reversible?
Phenylalanine long-term toxicity?
Neurodegenerative disorders
Aβamyloid
Alzheimer’s Disease: Aβ-amyloid and TAU
pathology
TAU
Jucker Nature 2013
Lewy
Body
Parkinson’s Disease: Lewy Body and alpha-synuclein
Alzheimer’s Disease
5.2 million cases in U.S.A
Incidence and prevalence increased with age
Parkinson’s
1,5 million
cases in U.S.A.
Disease
Peak incidence by the age of 60-65
years
Early-Onset Disease
Late-Onset “classical” Disease
2-5% Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
10-15% Early-Onset Parkinson’s
Disease
Number of cases
age
Probability of monogenic cause of Disease
GENETICS
Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease
APP, PSEN1, PSEN2
APOE
Manolio 2009 Nature
Genome-wide association
studies
ABCA7, APOE,
BIN1, CASS4,
CD2AP, CELF1,
CLU, CR1, EPHA1,
FERMT2,
FRMD4A, HLADRB1, INPP5D,
MEF2C, MS4A6A,
NME8, PICALM,
PTK2B, SCL24A4,
SORL1
Alzheimer’s Disease
PSEN1, PSEN2
APP
APOE
genetics
APOE
“Amyloid
Cascade
Hypothesis”
Cummings 2004 NEJM
Amyloid pathology and PKU
Reches 2002 J Biol Chem
Short aromatic peptide fragments are fybrillogenic
Diphenylalanine represent the core-peptide of Aβ-amyloid
Abramovic Nature Ch Biol
2012
Phenylalanine assembly into toxic fibrils
suggests amyloid etiology in phenylketonuria
In vitro assembly
Phenylalanine fibrils and Cellular
toxicity
Phenylalanine long-term toxicity?
In vivo staining
Parkinson’s Disease Genetics
Monogenic forms
Autosomal Dominant
Autosomal Recessive
SNCA (PARK1/4)
LRRK2 (PARK8)
VPS35
EIF4G1
GBA
PARKIN (PARK2)
PINK1 (PARK6)
DJ1 (PARK7)
GBA
ATP13A2 (PARK9)
PLA2G6 (PARK14)
FBXO7 (PARK15)
Sporadic forms
LRRK2
GBA
SNCA
MAPT
HLA
SMPD1
Parkinson’s Disease Genetics and pathophysiology
Obeso Nature 2010
Gaucher and Parkinsons’s
Lysosomal
involvement
Rosenbloom 2011 Blood Cell Mol
Dis
disease
8–12% of Gaucher patients have Parkinson’s disease
McNeill 2012 JNNP
Parkinson risk in heterozygous GBA mutations carriers is 10–15% by age
80
Lysosomes and Parkinsons’s disease
Sidransky 2012 Lancet Neurol
Parkinson’s Disease and PKU: a possible link?
Porta 2011 Mol Genet Metab
Higher lysosomal activity compared with age-matched controls
Phenylalanine long-term toxicity and lysosomes?
Dopamine and serotonin
Feillet 2011 Pediatrics
deficits
Parkinsonism and psychiatric involvement in PKU
Late-onset PKU case with parkinsonism
Daelman 2014 Rev
Neurol
Abnormal pre-synaptic dopamine
activity
Alzheimer’s Disease
BIOMARKERS
Parkinson’s Disease
From monogenic and sporadic
Bateman 2012
cases..
NEJM
Jack 2013 Neuron
Berg 2012 Mov Disord
Hyposmia, autonomic dysfunction
REM behavioral disorders,
Depression
Enlarged Hyperechogenic
Substantia Nigra
Combination of CSF and imaging
markers
Berg 2001 Neurology
Alzheimer’s Disease
Parkinson’s Disease
BIOMARKERS
In Early-treated
Phenylketonuria Adults
patients ?
EN-ETPKU Study
a pilot-study to assess the risk of Early Neurodegeneration
in early-treated PKU adult patients
Prof. Trefz
Prof. Freisinger
Klinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin
Reutlingen
Prof. Hoffmann
Zentrum für Kinder und
Jugendmedizin
Heidelberg University
Phenylalanine long-term brain toxicity: proposed mechanisms
Amyloid Deposition
Increased lysosomal
activity
Alzheimer’s
Disease
Parkinson’s
Disease
WM-related damage?
Modified by
Feillet F , Pediatrics (2010)
Thank you..
Prof. Daniela Berg
Prof. Walter Maetzler
Department of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Hertie Institut for Clinical Brain Research
DZNE German Center For Neurodegenerative
Disorders
Uniklinikum Tübingen
Prof. Trefz
Prof. Freisinger
Klinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin Reutlingen
Uniklinikum
Tübingen