title: Defects in the medial entorhinal cortex and dentate gyrus in the mouse model of Sanfilippo syndrome type B.
abstract: Sanfilippo syndrome type B (MPS IIIB) is characterized by profound mental retardation in childhood, dementia and death in late adolescence; it is caused by deficiency of α-N-acetylglucosaminidase and resulting lysosomal storage of heparan sulfate. A mouse model, generated by homologous recombination of the Naglu gene, was used to study pathological changes in the brain. We found earlier that neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and the dentate gyrus showed a number of secondary defects, including the presence of hyperphosphorylated tau (Ptau) detected with antibodies raised against Ptau in Alzheimer disease brain. By further use of immunohistochemistry, we now show staining in neurons of the same area for beta amyloid, extending the resemblance to Alzheimer disease. Ptau inclusions in the dentate gyrus of MPS IIIB mice were reduced in number when the mice were administered LiCl, a specific inhibitor of Gsk3β. Additional proteins found elevated in MEC include proteins involved in autophagy and the heparan sulfate proteoglycans, glypicans 1 and 5, the latter closely related to the primary defect. The level of secondary accumulations was associated with elevation of glypican, as seen by comparing brains of mice at different ages or with different mucopolysaccharide storage diseases. The MEC of an MPS IIIA mouse had the same intense immunostaining for glypican 1 and other markers as MPS IIIB, while MEC of MPS I and MPS II mice had weak staining, and MEC of an MPS VI mouse had no staining at all for the same proteins. A considerable amount of glypican was found in MEC of MPS IIIB mice outside of lysosomes. We propose that it is the extralysosomal glypican that would be harmful to neurons, because its heparan sulfate branches could potentiate the formation of Ptau and beta amyloid aggregates, which would be toxic as well as difficult to degrade.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmi
authors.forename: Hui-Zhi
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Elizabeth F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Neufeld
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D018891:Dentate Gyrus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D018728:Entorhinal Cortex / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D053673:Glypicans / Q000378:metabolism; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D009084:Mucopolysaccharidosis III / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D053673:Glypicans
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