title: Cerebrospinal Fluid from Alzheimer's disease patients promotes amyloid beta-protein oligomerization.
abstract: Oligomers of the amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) play an important role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We hypothesized that AD patients have a central nervous system environment that promotes Abeta oligomerization. We investigated the effect of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 33 patients with AD and 33 age-matched, non-demented controls on oligomerization of Abeta1-40 and Abeta1-42 using the technique of photo-induced cross-linking of unmodified proteins. CSF inhibited oligomerization of both Abeta1-40 and Abeta1-42. This inhibitory effect was significantly weaker in AD patients than in non-demented controls. Our results indicate that AD patients have a CSF environment favorable for Abeta oligomerization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Tokuhei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Kenjiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Elashoff
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Condron
authors.forename: Moeko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noguchi-Shinohara
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshita
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Teplow
authors.forename: Masahito
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000737:chemistry; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C078592:amyloid beta-protein (1-40); C075222:amyloid beta-protein (1-42)