Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-synuclein quantification in cerebrospinal fluid by multiple reaction monitoring reveals increased concentrations in Alzheimer's and creutzfeldt-jakob disease but no alteration in synucleinopathies

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α-Synuclein (αSyn) is a major constituent of proteinaceous aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and a potential biomarker candidate for diagnosis and treatment effects. However, studies about αSyn in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in diseases are inconsistent and mainly based on immunological assays. Quantitative information about β-synuclein (βSyn) and γ-synuclein (γSyn) in CSF is not available. Here, we present an alternative method for the simultaneous quantification of αSyn, βSyn and γSyn in CSF by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) with a high sequence coverage (70%) of αSyn to validate previous, ELISA-based results and characterize synucleins in CSF in more detail. The MRM has high sensitivity in the low pg/ml range (3-30pg/ml full-length αSyn) using 200 l CSF. A high portion of CSF αSyn is present in the N-terminally acetylated form and the concentration of unmodified peptides in the nonamyloid component region is about 40% lower than in the N-terminal region. Synuclein concentrations show a high correlation with each other in CSF (r>0.80) and in contrast to αSyn and γSyn, βSyn is not affected by blood contamination. CSF αSyn, βSyn and γSyn concentrations were increased in Alzheimerαs and CreutzfeldtJakob disease but not altered in PD, PD dementia (PDD), Lewy body dementia and atypical parkinsonian syndromes. The ratio βSyn/αSyn was increased in PDD (1.49 ± 0.38, p < 0.05) compared with PD (1.11 ± 0.26) and controls (1.15 ± 0.28). βSyn shows a high correlation with CSF tau concentrations (r = 0.86, p < 0.0001, n = 125). In conclusion, we could not confirm previous observations of reduced αSyn in PD and our results indicate that CSF synuclein concentrations are rather general markers of synaptic degeneration than specific for synucleinopathies. βsyn is an attractive biomarker candidate that might be used as an alternative to or in combination with tau in AD and CJD diagnosis and in combination with αSyn it is a biomarker candidate for PDD.

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Oeckl, P., Metzger, F., Nagl, M., Von Arnim, C. A. F., Halbgebauer, S., Steinacker, P., … Otto, M. (2016). Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-synuclein quantification in cerebrospinal fluid by multiple reaction monitoring reveals increased concentrations in Alzheimer’s and creutzfeldt-jakob disease but no alteration in synucleinopathies. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 15(10), 3126–3138. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M116.059915

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