Abstract
Misfolding and aggregation of disease-specific proteins, resulting in the formation of filamentous cellular inclusions, is a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease with characteristic filament structures, or conformers, defining each proteinopathy. Here we show that a previously unsolved amyloid fibril composed of a 135 amino acid C-terminal fragment of TMEM106B is a common finding in distinct human neurodegenerative diseases, including cases characterized by abnormal aggregation of TDP-43, tau, or α-synuclein protein. A combination of cryoelectron microscopy and mass spectrometry was used to solve the structures of TMEM106B fibrils at a resolution of 2.7 Å from postmortem human brain tissue afflicted with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology (FTLD-TDP, n = 8), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, n = 2), or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB, n = 1). The commonality of abundant amyloid fibrils composed of TMEM106B, a lysosomal/endosomal protein, to a broad range of debilitating human disorders indicates a shared fibrillization pathway that may initiate or accelerate neurodegeneration.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1346-1355.e15 |
Journal | Cell |
Volume | 185 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 14 2022 |
Keywords
- DLB
- FTLD-TDP
- PSP
- TMEM106B
- amyloid fibrils
- cryo-EM
- endosome
- lysosome
- neurodegeneration
- proteolysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)