Characterization of a transthyretin-related amyloid fibril protein from cerebral amyloid angiopathy in type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy

J Neurol Sci. 1992 Apr;108(2):178-83. doi: 10.1016/0022-510x(92)90048-p.

Abstract

Recently, it has been reported that transthyretin (TTR)-immunoreactive amyloid deposition with cerebral amyloid angiopathy in central nervous system is a common pathological finding in type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP). In the present study, we performed isolation and sequence analysis of TTR-related amyloid fibril protein from the meninges of a patient with type I FAP. Purified major amyloid fibril protein had a molecular weight of 15 kDa. Complete sequence analysis revealed that this amyloid fibril protein was a variant TTR with a single amino acid substitution of methionine for valine at position 30. This variant TTR is a previously unrecognized as cerebrovascular amyloid fibril protein. Furthermore, the patients with type I FAP are well known to have the variant TTR in the serum. These suggest that cerebrovascular amyloid fibril protein in type I FAP may derive from a serum precursor.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amyloid / analysis
  • Amyloid / genetics*
  • Amyloidosis / genetics*
  • Amyloidosis / pathology*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy / genetics*
  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy / pathology
  • DNA / blood
  • DNA / genetics
  • DNA / isolation & purification
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Exons
  • Humans
  • Immunoblotting
  • Leukocytes / physiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Molecular Weight
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prealbumin / analysis*
  • Prealbumin / genetics*

Substances

  • Amyloid
  • Prealbumin
  • transthyretin-related amyloid fibril protein, human
  • DNA