title: The amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide pattern in cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease: evidence of a novel carboxyterminally elongated Abeta peptide.
abstract: The patterns of amyloid beta (Abeta) peptides in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain homogenates were studied by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry, and the results were compared with those obtained by Abeta-SDS-PAGE/immunoblot. Apart from the peptides known in the literature to occur in the CSF, we postulate the existence of a novel, previously not described peptide, either Abeta1-45 or Abeta2-46. This peptide was observed exclusively in a pool of samples originating from patients with AD, i.e. CSF and postmortem brain homogenates, but not in either the pooled CSF samples nor the pooled brain homogenates of the non-demented controls. Similarly to our previous results, Abeta1-42 was decreased in the CSF in AD. Expectedly, brain homogenates of the control subjects did not show the presence of Abeta peptides. Compared with Abeta-SDS-PAGE/immunoblot, SELDI-TOF enabled more precise analysis of Abeta peptides in the human material. We conclude that SELDI-TOF offers a promising tool for dementia expression pattern profiling using a minute amount of a biological sample.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lewczuk
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Goettingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Esselmann
authors.affiliation: Ciphergen Biosystems GmbH, Hannah-Vogt-Str. 1, 37085 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Ciphergen Biosystems GmbH, Hannah-Vogt-Str. 1, 37085 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wollscheid
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuropathology, University of Munich, Marchionini-Str. 17, 81377 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Goettingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Juan Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Maler
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Goettingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Eckart
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rüther
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kornhuber
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiltfang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D003704:Dementia / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008970:Molecular Weight
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides