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Hyman, B.T., West, H.L., Rebeck, G.W., Buldyrev, S.V., Mantegna, R.N., Ukleja, M., Havlin, S. and Stanley, H.E. (1995) Quantitative Analysis of Senile Plaques in Alzheimer Disease: Observation of Log-Normal Size Distribution and Molecular Epidemiology of Differences Associated with Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 92, 3586-3590.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.92.8.3586

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• TITLE: Alzheimer’s Disease Aβ-Amyloid Plaque Morphology Varies According to APOE Isotype

  AUTHORS: Ina Caesar, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Per Hammarström, Mikael Lindgren, Stefan Prokop, James Schmeidler, Vahram Haroutunian, David M. Holtzman, Patrick R. Hof, Sam Gandy

  KEYWORDS: Alzheimer’s Disease, Amyloid, Apolipoprotein, Luminescent Conjugated Oligothiophenes, Hyperspectral Separation

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Neuroscience, Vol.13 No.3, August 4, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Background: The apolipoprotein E (APOE, gene; apoE, protein) ε4 allele is the most commonly identified genetic risk factor for typical late-onset sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Each APOE ε4 allele roughly triples the relative risk for AD compared to that of the reference allele, APOE ε3. Methods: We have employed hyperspectral fluorescence imaging with an amyloid-specific, conformation-sensing probe, p-FTAA, to elucidate protein aggregate structure and morphology in fresh frozen prefrontal cortex samples from human postmortem AD brain tissue samples from patients homozygous for either APOE ε3 or APOE ε4. Results: As expected APOE ε4/ε4 tissues had a significantly larger load of CAA than APOE ε3/ε3. APOE isoform-dependent morphological differences in amyloid plaques were also observed. Amyloid plaques in APOE ε3/ε3 tissue had small spherical cores and large coronas while amyloid plaques in APOE ε4/ε4 tissues had large irregular and multi-lobulated plaques with relatively smaller coronas. Despite the different morphologies of their cores, the p-FTAA stained APOE ε3/ε3 amyloid plaque cores had spectral properties identical to those of APOE ε4/ε4 plaque cores. Conclusions: These data support the hypothesis that one mechanism by which the APOE ε4 allele affects AD is by modulating the macrostructure of pathological protein deposits in the brain. APOE ε4 is associated with a higher density of amyloid plaques (as compared to APOE ε3). We speculate that multilobulated APOE ε4-associated plaques arise from multiple initiation foci that coalesce as the plaques grow.