Glycoconjugates in Storage Cytosomes from Ceroid-Lipofuscinosis (Batten’s Disease) and in Lipofuscin from Old-Age Brain
- 1 January 1990
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 266, 225-242
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5339-1_16
Abstract
The ceroid-lipofuscinoses (CL) are a group of inherited diseases characterised by the accumulation, in brain, of autofluorescent storage cytosomes which have similar histochemical staining properties to lipofuscin, the neuronal wear and tear pigment of old-age brain. The storage cytosomes stain strongly with periodic acid-Schiff reagent (PAS), indicating the presence of carbohydrate. In brain from each childhood form of CL, concentrations of phosphorylated dolichol (Dol-P) are 10- to 20- fold higher than in age-matched controls. Brain Dol-P concentrations are also increased between 2 and 5- fold in several different lipidoses and in elderly subjects. Much of the Dol-P which accumulates is located within the storage cytosomes. Dol-P constitutes 2-3% of the dry weight of storage cytosomes from juvenile and late-infantile CL, and 0.3-0.7% of storage cytosomes from infantile CL, ovine CL and of lipofuscin isolated from old age brain. The bulk of the Dol-P in CL brain and in isolated storage cytosomes is present as dolichyl pyrophosphoryl oligosaccharides (Dol-PP-OS). The constitutions of the oligosaccharide moieties differ in the various forms of the disease. Histochemical analysis of frozen sections of unfixed brain after extraction by various lipid solvents indicates that the major part of the PAS positive intraneuronal material in CL brain and in old-age brain has the extraction properties of Dol-PP-OS. Carbohydrate represents 4-7% of the dry weight of CL storage cytosomes and of lipofuscin. The major monosaccharide components are mannose, N-acetyl glucosamine, glucose and galactose. Depending on the form of the disease studied, up to 40% of this material can be accounted for by Dol-PP-OS. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of storage cytosomes followed by lectin blotting demonstrates several low molecular weight components which bind concanavalin A. These do not coelute with the major protein components and may well be Dol-PP-OS. We conclude that Dol-PP-OS are concentrated in storage cytosomes in CL and are one of their major glycoconjugate components.Keywords
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