Subtype Specific CSF Biomarkers in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Clinical Dementia Center and DZNE, University Medical Center Gottingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany

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Saima Zafar
Department of Neurology, Clinical Dementia Center and DZNE
University Medical Centre Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
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E-mail: saima.zafar@med.uni-goettingen.de

Received date: May 02, 2017; Accepted date: May 31, 2017; Published date: June 07, 2017

Citation: Zafar S, Younas N, Zerr I (2017) Subtype Specific CSF Biomarkers in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 7:332. doi:10.4172/2161-0460.1000332

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Abstract

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare but fatal type of spongiform encephalopathy with unidentified origin. The conjoining methionine-valine polymorphism of PRNP gene at codon 129 and two types of prion protein (PrPsc types 1 and 2) described the six different molecular subtypes (MM1, MM2, MV1, MV2, VV1 and VV2) of sCJD. Presumptive subtype specific diagnosis showed differential clinical manifestations and levels of CSF 14-3-3 protein. Even with the above mentioned differential diagnostic guidelines, pre-mortem subtype specific diagnosis of sCJD can be unreliable with high rates of misdiagnosis. The need for more reliable biomarkers for improving the diagnosis as well as understanding the pathogenesis of this mysterious ailment is amplified. This review compiles the levels of CSF proteins, i.e., PrPC, PrPSC 14-3-3, tau, phosphorylated tau, S100B, neuron-specific enolase (NSE) alpha-synuclein and beta-amyloid to differential diagnosis subtype specific sCJD cases. The detection of pre-mortem distinction targets might be useful diagnostic tool for sCJD in subtype specific manner and might lead towards differential treatment approaches.

Keywords

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; CJD; PrP; Prion; 14-3-3; Tau; NSE; Alpha-synuclein

sCJD Subtype Specific CSF Proteins Signature

Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) is an inveterate disease caused by the misfolding of the cellular prion protein. The two major different PrP conformations (type 1 and type 2) in combination with methionine/valine polymorphic at codon 129 contributes to the manifestation of six different molecular subtypes (MM1, MM2, MV1, MV2, VV1 and VV2) leading to differential clinical pathological phenotypes [1,2].

However, the diagnosis of sCJD can only be made with certainty after a patient has deceased, by histological examination of brain tissue at autopsy or, rarely, following brain biopsy. Histopathology should reveal evidence of the distinctive hallmarks of CJD, which are extracellular accumulations of PrPsc aggregates.

Due to diverse phenotypic heterogeneity of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and atypical variants [3-5] differential diagnosis of CJD from other neurological diseases (sometimes reversible and treatable) is very challenging Initially diagnostic criteria of CJD were based on combination of clinical symptoms and biomarkers such as MRI, EEG and classical CSF protein marker 14-3-3 [6-9] protein. 14-3-3, which is released into interstitial fluid on death of neurons, indicates rapid neurodegeneration [6]. But this protein is not only present in CSF of CJD but also in other neurodegenerative diseases including some cases of rapidly progressing Alzheimer disease [10-14]. Later studies reported improved differential diagnosis between typical CJD and AD or between CJD and large clinically unselected dementia populations by using t-tau, t-tau to phosphorylatedtau ratio in combination to 14-3-3 [15-20]. Many studies have reported overall high diagnostic accuracy for CSF total-tau as compared to 14-3-3 or S100B [21-24]. Recent study has shown that level of total prion protein (t-PrP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is very useful marker to differentiate CJD from AD. Further a combination of t-PrP with CSF tau even provides more accuracy as compared to using 14-3-3 alone [25]. This review compiles the levels of CSF proteins i.e. PrPC, PrPSC, tau, phosphorylated tau, S100, NSE and alpha-synuclein to differential diagnosis of subtype specific sCJD cases (Figure 1).

PrPC and PrPSC

Over the current years, total PrP (t-PrP) level in CSF have been pronounced as a novel biomarker [25]. For clinicians the level of t-PrP in CSF might support the differential diagnosis of atypical cases in between the CJD and Alzheimer diseases. Additionally, the t-PrP ratio of CSF with tau proteins (Creutzfeldt-Jakob factor=Total tau/ (Phospho-tau × Total-PrP) lead to differentiate between CJD and atypical AD cases with 100% sensitivity and 95.7% specificity [25]. Many studies reported differential levels of t-PrP in in CJD (subtypes), Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and dementia with Lewy Bodies disease and found slightly but significant decrease in comparison to age matched controls [26,27]. We also reported CJD subtype (MM1 and VV2) t-PrP level correlation in between CSF and brain at mRNA level and protein levels [26,28-31]. Recent development and consolidation of innovative techniques lead to improve the detection system with more sensitivity and specificity by using RT-QuIC ultrasensitive in vitro assay lead to diagnose CJD patients. The diagnostic sensitivity of RT-QuIC is between 82-96% and practically full specificity. Nonetheless, technique still not that improved to discriminate CJD subtypes in comparison to age matched healthy and non-demented controls [32-36]. However, recent reports also showed lower detection sensitivity in CJD subtypes interrelated to type 2 abnormal prion protein (PrPSc) (VV2, MV2 and MM2) than in typical MM1 subtype of CJD.

Altogether, these studies indicate that the level of PrP in CSF are on average lower level in individuals with prion disease and could be a specific marker in symptomatic prion disease patients than in controls [25-28,37] but not at the subtype levels.

Tau and Phosphorylated Tau

Currently, CSF protein analysis in combination to advanced MRI techniques such as DWI and FLAIR are the most prominent in vivo diagnostic markers for sCJD [24,38]. Most widely used surrogate protein markers are brain derived CSF proteins (14-3-3, t-PrP, total (t)-tau and t-tau/phosphorylated (p)-tau ratio) with different level of specificity and sensitivity for differential diagnosis of CJD from other rapidly progressive dementias [8,18,20,39-43]. While many studies have analysed utility of these biomarkers for differential diagnosis, only few studies have particularly analysed the effect of the disease-subtypes on the specificity and sensitivity of the biomarkers [23,24,44]. Recently, we showed that CSF protein analysis (14-3-3, tau protein, phosphorylated tau (181P) (p-tau) protein, amyloid β1-42, S100B and NSE can be used as a marker for pre-mortem diagnosis of sCJD subtypes when genotype of codon 129 is known [44,45]. Authors have reported significantly high tau levels in PrP type 1 patient with MM and MV genotype but lower in VV cases. Authors claim that a combination of genotyping and CSF tau assay can be authentic approach for subtype differentiation of the disease [23,45]. A very recent study has provided novel evidence for a significantly improved value of CSF biomarkers for the clinical diagnosis of CJD subtypes [24]. This study has shown moderate superiority of t-tau levels in terms of both specificity and sensitivity for all sCJD subtypes as compared to conventional CJD marker 14-3-3-protein. More precisely authors have shown that t-tau resulted in a lesser number of false positive results, particularly in cases having inflammatory related disorders and sub–acute dementias; and it has higher sensitivity than 14-3-3 for the sCJD MV2K type [24]. Altogether, data suggest that the t-tau assay has technical advantages as compared to the standard western blot 14-3-3 assay, providing an evidence for a change in the current approvals to prioritise t-tau analysis over 14-3-3 although in case of differential diagnosis with Alzheimer disease, t-tau is less accurate than 14-3-3 [24,37,46]. For differential diagnosis with AD, combination of Aβ42, p-tau and total-PrP levels with the calculation of t-tau/p-tau and other ratios based on different combinations of these four biomarkers has considerably improved diagnostic accuracy [25,27,42].

Figure 1: Schematic representation of subtype CJD specific diagnostic CSF markers. The CSF biomarkers exhibit the pathological modifications in the neurons of the brain with and demonstrate the potential cellular origin of the biomarkers that are associated with CJD subtype specific pathology. The cascade of events starts by an alteration of alpha synuclein, PrPC/SC AND amyloid beta expression in CSF, nevertheless, with no significance (↔) alterations in between CJD-MM1 and VV2 subtypes. NSE and S100B demonstrate increased levels (↑) in CSF of CJD-VV1 verses (vs.) CJD-VV2, however, CJD-MM1 vs. CJD-MM2 showed decreased levels (↓) in CSF. The expression levels of Tau in CJD-MM1 vs. CJD-MM2 showed decreased levels (↓) in CSF. In addition, P-tau levels in CSF showed increased in CJD-MM1 vs. CJD-MM2 and CJD-MV1 vs. CJD-MV2 subtypes.

NSE and S100B

Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is reported to be elevated and was one of the first protein with potential for differential diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from other dementing illnesses [24,47-50]. In our sCJD patient cohort homozygous group (MM and VV) showed elevated levels of NSE as compared to the heterozygous [45]. S100B protein is a glial associated, calcium binding, cytoplasmic neurotrophic factor linked to neuronal survival and brain damage [51]. S100B showed similar trend like NSE levels in sCJD homozygous and heterozygous groups. Sensitivities and specificities of CSF S100b range from 65 to 98% and from 29 to 90%, with an area under the ROC of 0.98% [21,45,52,53]. Alone it does not have better predictive potential than the already used clinical markers or CSF 14�?�3�?�3, but the combination of S100b with other markers including CSF 14�?�3�?�3 may improve diagnostic capability. However, NSE, or S-100 contributed substantially to correctly classify into ‘CJD’ or ‘non-CJD’ but is worth to screen patients with dementia and not as first screening test. Furthermore, the levels of NSE and S100B enabled differentiation between VV1 and VV2 subtypes, with elevation being predictive for the VV2 subtype [45,54].

The differential pathological profile of the particular sCJD subtypes contributed to differential NSE and S100B levels in CSF. The differential brain region and subtype specific inflammatory response might contribute to the different S100B CSF profile [29].

Alpha-Synuclein and Beta-Amyloid

The common pathogenic signs such as deposition or aggregation of the proteins, plaque or fibril formation demonstrated in more than twenty degenerative diseases [55]. Alpha-synuclein is an emerging, well conserved target which has been detected in biological fluids such as CSF and serum [56,57]. Recently, many reports demonstrate the elevated levels of alpha-synuclein in the CSF of CJD patients [58-60]. However, the underline mechanisms leading to elevated CSF levels of alpha-synuclein in CJD cases are still not clear, nevertheless so far no synuclein-related pathology in sCJD brain tissue has been reported. In advancement of CSF alpha-synuclein based RT-QuiC analysis in Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease patients showed overall specificity of 100% in comparison with Alzheimer and control [61,62]. However, the CSF biomarkers of sCJD and dementia with Lew body sometime concomitant an overlap, with reduced levels of amyloid beta 42 and induced levels of tau [60,63-65]. Therefore, supplementation of alpha synuclein levels may be helpful for the perspective of differential diagnostics.

The expressional levels of beta-amyloid peptide in CSF are an extensive pragmatic diagnostic tool in Alzheimer’s disease [66,67]. A reduced level of Beta-amyloid has also been reported in the CSF of patients with sporadic CJD when compared to control samples [68]. These CSF biomarkers have proven to be an extremely valuable in the confirmatory diagnosis of CJD cases. However, all the known biomarkers are sensitive only when the disease is already at an advanced or terminal stage and there is no data available at preclinical stages of the prion disease.

Conclusion

Three core CSF CJD biomarkers have been evaluated in a great number of studies and may provide valuable information for differential CJD diagnostic from other rapidly progressive dementias. Though, diagnostic potential of CSF biomarkers and imaging techniques is very low for differentiation of CJD subtypes particularly for atypical variants of the disease. Efforts should be made to develop new biomarkers for pre-mortem differentiation of molecular subtypes in an attempt to treat the disease in a particular way depending on the disease subtype and underlying pathology related to that disease subtype.

However, all the known biomarkers are sensitive only when the disease is already at an advanced or terminal stage and there is no data available at preclinical stages of the prion disease.

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