Journal: Acta Neuropathologica
Article Title: Galectin-3 shapes toxic alpha-synuclein strains in Parkinson’s disease
doi: 10.1007/s00401-023-02585-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: Recombinant galectin-3 (Gal3) impairs synuclein aggregation in vitro. a Thioflavin-T (ThT) aggregation assay showed a rapid aggregation for recombinant human α-synuclein (αSyn) that was impaired in the presence of recombinant Gal3 (purple line). Notably, carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) mutation (Gal3 R186S ) reverted this effect. b Proteinase K (PK) digestion at increasing concentration of resultant conditions from a) showed a lower stability in the presence of Gal3 (red line). c When Gal3 was added to αSyn pre-formed fibrils (PFF) after aggregation was completed, an increased signal was observed in the presence of ThT after 15 h. d PK digestion at increasing concentration of resultant fibrils from ( c ) showed similar stability of PFF in the presence of Gal3. e Electron microscopy images after uranyl negative staining of PFF after 24 h incubation with Gal3 (right panels). Note a marked disorganization of the fibrils network after Gal3 incubation with increased shortened species (upper right panel), and the change of morphology (lower right panel) with rounded structures attached to the fibrils. Scale bar 1 µm (upper panels) and 200 nm (lower panels). f Native PAGE Western Blot of the final results obtained in c ) Note that Gal3 promoted an increase in smaller soluble species released by αSyn fibrils. g Direct interaction of Gal3 with different αSyn species was investigated by ELISA. 2 µM Gal3 concentration were precoated in a 96 well plate and 2 µM αSyn species were incubated. 450 nm absorbance was measured to detect bounded protein. All types of species presented high affinity for Gal3 coated well compared with the control condition in absence of αSyn ( p < 0.001). No relevant absorbance was detected in the absence of precoated Gal3 (data not shown). h Addition of sonicated PFF pre-incubated with gal3 (PFFgal3) for 30 min to dopaminergic cell line N27 for 48 h led to a decreased number of cells compared with PFF alone (** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001). i Graphical abstract representing the hypothesis proposed based on our in vitro studies about Gal3-αSyn interaction. Gal3 could impact αSyn elongation in de novo formation of fibrils while also affecting structured fibrils with little impact on the dense core but release of small species
Article Snippet: Goat anti-GAL3 , R&D Systems, Bio-techne , Minneapolis, MN, USA , AF-1197 , 1:1000.
Techniques: Recombinant, In Vitro, Mutagenesis, Concentration Assay, Electron Microscopy, Negative Staining, Incubation, Clear Native PAGE, Western Blot, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Sonication