Publication
Title
CSF proteomic Alzheimer's disease-predictive subtypes in cognitively intact amyloid negative individuals
Author
Institution/Organisation
ADNI
Abstract
We recently discovered three distinct pathophysiological subtypes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteomics: one with neuronal hyperplasticity, a second with innate immune system activation, and a third subtype with blood-brain barrier dysfunction. It remains unclear whether AD proteomic subtype profiles are a consequence of amyloid aggregation, or might exist upstream from aggregated amyloid. We studied this question in 127 older individuals with intact cognition and normal AD biomarkers in two independent cohorts (EMIF-AD MBD and ADNI). We clustered 705 proteins measured in CSF that were previously related to AD. We identified in these cognitively intact individuals without AD pathology three subtypes: two subtypes were seen in both cohorts (n = 49 with neuronal hyperplasticity and n = 44 with blood-brain barrier dysfunction), and one only in ADNI (n = 12 with innate immune activation). The proteins specific for these subtypes strongly overlapped with AD subtype protein profiles (overlap coefficients 92%-71%). Longitudinal p(181)-tau and amyloid beta 1-42 (A beta 42) CSF analysis showed that in the hyperplasticity subtype p(181)-tau increased (beta = 2.6 pg/mL per year, p = 0.01) and A beta 42 decreased over time (beta = -4.4 pg/mL per year, p = 0.03), in the innate immune activation subtype p(181)-tau increased (beta = 3.1 pg/mL per year, p = 0.01) while in the blood-brain barrier dysfunction subtype A beta 42 decreased (beta = -3.7 pg/mL per year, p = 0.009). These findings suggest that AD proteomic subtypes might already manifest in cognitively normal individuals and may predispose for AD before amyloid has reached abnormal levels.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Proteomes
Publication
2021
ISSN
2227-7382
DOI
10.3390/PROTEOMES9030036
Volume/pages
9 :3 (2021) , 15 p.
Article Reference
36
ISI
000702030800001
Pubmed ID
34449748
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
PATHAD: Pathways to Alzheimer's disease
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 26.08.2024
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