Phenotypic diversity of genetic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a histo-molecular-based classification
Adult
Male
Genotype
PrPSc Proteins
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Insomnia, Fatal Familial
CJD subtypes; Fatal familial insomnia; FFI; Prion disease; Prion protein; Prion strains; PRNP
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Prion Proteins
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Prion protein gene (PRNP)
Codon
Aged
Original Paper
Prion strains
Middle Aged
3. Good health
Phenotype
Mutation
CJD subtypes
Fatal familial insomnia
Female
DOI:
10.1007/s00401-021-02350-y
Publication Date:
2021-07-29T08:02:52Z
AUTHORS (19)
ABSTRACT
AbstractThe current classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) includes six major clinicopathological subtypes defined by the physicochemical properties of the protease-resistant core of the pathologic prion protein (PrPSc), defining two major PrPSc types (i.e., 1 and 2), and the methionine (M)/valine (V) polymorphic codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP). How these sCJD subtypes relate to the well-documented phenotypic heterogeneity of genetic CJD (gCJD) is not fully understood. We analyzed molecular and phenotypic features in 208 individuals affected by gCJD, carrying 17 different mutations, and compared them with those of a large series of sCJD cases. We identified six major groups of gCJD based on the combination PrPSc type and codon 129 genotype on PRNP mutated allele, each showing distinctive histopathological characteristics, irrespectively of the PRNP associated mutation. Five gCJD groups, named M1, M2C, M2T, V1, and V2, largely reproduced those previously described in sCJD subtypes. The sixth group shared phenotypic traits with the V2 group and was only detected in patients carrying the E200K-129M haplotype in association with a PrPSc type of intermediate size (“i”) between type 1 and type 2. Additional mutation-specific effects involved the pattern of PrP deposition (e.g., a “thickened” synaptic pattern in E200K carriers, cerebellar “stripe-like linear granular deposits” in those with insertion mutations, and intraneuronal globular dots in E200K-V2 or -M”i”). A few isolated cases linked to rare PRNP haplotypes (e.g., T183A-129M), showed atypical phenotypic features, which prevented their classification into the six major groups. The phenotypic variability of gCJD is mostly consistent with that previously found in sCJD. As in sCJD, the codon 129 genotype and physicochemical properties of PrPSc significantly correlated with the phenotypic variability of gCJD. The most common mutations linked to CJD appear to have a variable and overall less significant effect on the disease phenotype, but they significantly influence disease susceptibility often in a strain-specific manner. The criteria currently used for sCJD subtypes can be expanded and adapted to gCJD to provide an updated classification of the disease with a molecular basis.
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