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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta | 2013

Human pathology in NCL.

Glenn Anderson; Hans H. Goebel; Alessandro Simonati

In childhood the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are the most frequent lysosomal diseases and the most frequent neurodegenerative diseases but, in adulthood, they represent a small fraction among the neurodegenerative diseases. Their morphology is marked by: (i) loss of neurons, foremost in the cerebral and cerebellar cortices resulting in cerebral and cerebellar atrophy; (ii) an almost ubiquitous accumulation of lipopigments in nerve cells, but also in extracerebral tissues. Loss of cortical neurons is selective, indiscriminate depletion in early childhood forms occurring only at an advanced stage, whereas loss of neurons in subcortical grey-matter regions has not been quantitatively documented. Among the fourteen different forms of NCL described to date, CLN1 and CLN10 are marked by granular lipopigments, CLN2 by curvilinear profiles (CVPs), CLN3 by fingerprint profiles (FPPs), and other forms by a combination of these features. Among extracerebral tissues, lymphocytes, skin, rectum, skeletal muscle and, occasionally, conjunctiva are possible guiding targets for diagnostic identification, the precise type of NCL then requiring molecular analysis within the clinical and morphological context. Autosomal-recessive adult NCL has been linked molecularly to different childhood forms, i.e. CLN1, CLN5, and CLN6, whilst autosomal-dominant adult NCL, now designated as CLN4, is caused by a newly identified separate gene, DNAJC5. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses or Batten Disease.


Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2015

Astrovirus VA1/HMO-C: An Increasingly Recognized Neurotropic Pathogen in Immunocompromised Patients

Julianne R. Brown; Sofia Morfopoulou; Jonathan Hubb; Warren Emmett; Winnie Ip; Divya Shah; Tony Brooks; Simon Paine; Glenn Anderson; Alex Virasami; C. Y. William Tong; Duncan A. Clark; Vincent Plagnol; Ts Jacques; Waseem Qasim; Mike Hubank; Judith Breuer

Brain biopsy from a child with unknown cause of encephalopathy was deep-sequenced. Astrovirus VA1/HMO-C was identified, highly divergent from human astroviruses and 95% identical to astrovirus previously associated with encephalitis. Findings suggest astrovirus VA1/HMO-C is an under-recognized cause of viral encephalitis.


Journal of Neurochemistry | 2014

The ketogenic diet component decanoic acid increases mitochondrial citrate synthase and complex I activity in neuronal cells

Sean David Hughes; Marta Kanabus; Glenn Anderson; Iain Hargreaves; Tricia Rutherford; Maura O’ Donnell; J. Helen Cross; Shamima Rahman; Simon Eaton; Simon Heales

The Ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment with regards to treating pharmaco‐resistant epilepsy. However, there are difficulties around compliance and tolerability. Consequently, there is a need for refined/simpler formulations that could replicate the efficacy of the KD. One of the proposed hypotheses is that the KD increases cellular mitochondrial content which results in elevation of the seizure threshold. Here, we have focussed on the medium‐chain triglyceride form of the diet and the observation that plasma octanoic acid (C8) and decanoic acid (C10) levels are elevated in patients on the medium‐chain triglyceride KD. Using a neuronal cell line (SH‐SY5Y), we demonstrated that 250‐μM C10, but not C8, caused, over a 6‐day period, a marked increase in the mitochondrial enzyme, citrate synthase along with complex I activity and catalase activity. Increased mitochondrial number was also indicated by electron microscopy. C10 is a reported peroxisome proliferator activator receptor γ agonist, and the use of a peroxisome proliferator activator receptor γ antagonist was shown to prevent the C10‐mediated increase in mitochondrial content and catalase. C10 may mimic the mitochondrial proliferation associated with the KD and raises the possibility that formulations based on this fatty acid could replace a more complex diet.


Biomaterials | 2015

The interaction of carbon nanotubes with an in vitro blood-brain barrier model and mouse brain in vivo

Houmam Kafa; Julie Tzu-Wen Wang; Noelia Rubio; Kerrie Venner; Glenn Anderson; Elzbieta Pach; Belén Ballesteros; Jane E. Preston; N. Joan Abbott; Khuloud T. Al-Jamal

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a novel nanocarriers with interesting physical and chemical properties. Here we investigate the ability of amino-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs-NH3+) to cross the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) in vitro using a co-culture BBB model comprising primary porcine brain endothelial cells (PBEC) and primary rat astrocytes, and in vivo following a systemic administration of radiolabelled f-MWNTs. Transmission Electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed that MWNTs-NH3+ crossed the PBEC monolayer via energy-dependent transcytosis. MWNTs-NH3+ were observed within endocytic vesicles and multi-vesicular bodies after 4 and 24 h. A complete crossing of the in vitro BBB model was observed after 48 h, which was further confirmed by the presence of MWNTs-NH3+ within the astrocytes. MWNT-NH3+ that crossed the PBEC layer was quantitatively assessed using radioactive tracers. A maximum transport of 13.0 ± 1.1% after 72 h was achieved using the co-culture model. f-MWNT exhibited significant brain uptake (1.1 ± 0.3% injected dose/g) at 5 min after intravenous injection in mice, after whole body perfusion with heparinized saline. Capillary depletion confirmed presence of f-MWNT in both brain capillaries and parenchyma fractions. These results could pave the way for use of CNTs as nanocarriers for delivery of drugs and biologics to the brain, after systemic administration.


Journal of Clinical Pathology | 2005

Blood film examination for vacuolated lymphocytes in the diagnosis of metabolic disorders; retrospective experience of more than 2500 cases from a single centre

Glenn Anderson; Virpi V. Smith; M Malone; Nj Sebire

Background: A range of metabolic diseases can result in abnormal accumulation of metabolic byproducts, resulting in abnormal lymphocyte cytoplasmic vacuolation, identifiable on routine blood film examination. Aims: This study retrospectively examines the usefulness of blood film examination for vacuolated lymphocytes in a specialist paediatric pathology department in relation to patient’s age and presentation. It also describes specific diagnostic features in relation to specific classes of metabolic disease. Methods: Retrospective review of a histopathology database to identify all blood films examined for the detection of vacuolated lymphocytes during a 15 year period (1989–2004). Results: In total, 2550 blood films were investigated. The median age at submission was 2 years (range, birth to 88), and > 90% of samples were from children < 18 years. The most common indications were developmental delay/regression, ataxia, seizures, and cardiomyopathy. Vacuolated lymphocytes were identified in 156 films (6.1%). The frequency of vacuolated lymphocytes varied with clinical presentation, with ophthalmic indications having the highest positive rate (40%). In cases with vacuolated lymphocytes, a wide range of underlying metabolic diagnoses was apparent, the most common being juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis and acid maltase deficiency, which accounted for more than half of the diagnoses. Conclusions: The examination of blood films for lymphocyte vacuolation is clinically useful in patients with a history suggestive of metabolic disease. The test is cheap, rapid, minimally invasive, and provides first line screening, with some findings indicating clues to a specific underlying diagnosis.


Journal of Clinical Pathology | 2004

Pathology of astrovirus associated diarrhoea in a paediatric bone marrow transplant recipient

Nj Sebire; M Malone; Neil P. Shah; Glenn Anderson; Hubert B. Gaspar; Wd Cubitt

Human astrovirus infection often causes outbreaks of self limiting diarrhoea, but may also infect patients who are immunodeficient or immunocompromised. Although there are previous publications relating to various aspects of astroviruses, there is a minimal amount of literature on the histopathological features of gastrointestinal astrovirus infection in humans. We report the histopathological findings, including immunohistochemical and electron microscopic features, of astrovirus infection in a bone marrow transplant recipient aged 4 years with diarrhoea. The appearance of a small intestinal biopsy did not suggest graft versus host disease, but demonstrated villous blunting, irregularity of surface epithelial cells, and an increase in lamina propria inflammatory cell density. Immunohistochemical staining with a murine astrovirus group specific monoclonal antibody demonstrated progressively more extensive staining in the duodenal and jejunal biopsies, predominantly restricted to the luminal surface and cytoplasm of surface epithelial cells, most marked at the villus tips. Electron microscopic examination demonstrated viral particles within the cytoplasm of enterocytes, focally forming paracrystalline arrays.


Acta Neuropathologica | 2010

Balloon cells in human cortical dysplasia and tuberous sclerosis: isolation of a pathological progenitor-like cell.

Shireena A. Yasin; Kate Latak; Francesca Becherini; Anita Ganapathi; Khadijah Miller; Oliver Campos; Simon R. Picker; Nelly Bier; Martin Smith; Maria Thom; Glenn Anderson; J. Helen Cross; William Harkness; Brian Harding; Ts Jacques

Neural stem cells are present in the human post-natal brain and are important in the development of brain tumours. However, their contribution to non-neoplastic human disease is less clear. We have tested the hypothesis that malformations of cortical development contain abnormal (pathological) stem cells. Such malformations are a major cause of epilepsy. Two of the most common malformations [focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and cortical tubers] are characterised by the presence of a population of abnormal cells known as balloon cells. The identity of these cells is unknown but one hypothesis is that they are an abnormal stem cell that contributes to the pathogenesis of the malformation. We have characterised in tissue, and isolated in culture, an undifferentiated population of balloon cells from surgical resections of FCD and cortical tubers. We show that β1-integrin labels a sub-population of balloon cells with a stem cell phenotype and show for the first time that these cells can be isolated in vitro. We have characterised the immunohistochemical, morphological and ultrastructural features of these cells. This is the first isolation of an abnormal cell with features of a progenitor/stem cell from a non-neoplastic disease of the brain.


American Journal of Human Genetics | 2014

Mutations in SNX14 Cause a Distinctive Autosomal-Recessive Cerebellar Ataxia and Intellectual Disability Syndrome

Anna Thomas; H Williams; Núria Setó-Salvia; Chiara Bacchelli; Dagan Jenkins; Mary O'Sullivan; Konstantinos Mengrelis; Miho Ishida; Louise Ocaka; Estelle Chanudet; Chela James; Francesco Lescai; Glenn Anderson; Deborah Morrogh; Mina Ryten; Andrew J. Duncan; Yun Jin Pai; Jorge M. Saraiva; Fabiana Ramos; Bernadette Farren; Dawn E. Saunders; Bertrand Vernay; Paul Gissen; Anna Straatmaan-Iwanowska; Frank Baas; Nicholas W. Wood; Joshua Hersheson; Henry Houlden; Jane L. Hurst; Richard H. Scott

Intellectual disability and cerebellar atrophy occur together in a large number of genetic conditions and are frequently associated with microcephaly and/or epilepsy. Here we report the identification of causal mutations in Sorting Nexin 14 (SNX14) found in seven affected individuals from three unrelated consanguineous families who presented with recessively inherited moderate-severe intellectual disability, cerebellar ataxia, early-onset cerebellar atrophy, sensorineural hearing loss, and the distinctive association of progressively coarsening facial features, relative macrocephaly, and the absence of seizures. We used homozygosity mapping and whole-exome sequencing to identify a homozygous nonsense mutation and an in-frame multiexon deletion in two families. A homozygous splice site mutation was identified by Sanger sequencing of SNX14 in a third family, selected purely by phenotypic similarity. This discovery confirms that these characteristic features represent a distinct and recognizable syndrome. SNX14 encodes a cellular protein containing Phox (PX) and regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) domains. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis predicts that SNX14 is highly coexpressed with genes involved in cellular protein metabolism and vesicle-mediated transport. All three mutations either directly affected the PX domain or diminished SNX14 levels, implicating a loss of normal cellular function. This manifested as increased cytoplasmic vacuolation as observed in cultured fibroblasts. Our findings indicate an essential role for SNX14 in neural development and function, particularly in development and maturation of the cerebellum.


Nature Genetics | 2014

Gain-of-function mutations in the phosphatidylserine synthase 1 (PTDSS1) gene cause Lenz-Majewski syndrome

Sérgio B. Sousa; Dagan Jenkins; Estelle Chanudet; Guergana Tasseva; Miho Ishida; Glenn Anderson; James Docker; Mina Ryten; Joaquim de Sá; Jorge M. Saraiva; Angela Barnicoat; Richard W. Scott; Alistair Calder; Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon; Krystyna H. Chrzanowska; Martina Simandlova; Lionel Van Maldergem; Philip Stanier; Philip L. Beales; Jean E. Vance; Gudrun E. Moore

Lenz-Majewski syndrome (LMS) is a syndrome of intellectual disability and multiple congenital anomalies that features generalized craniotubular hyperostosis. By using whole-exome sequencing and selecting variants consistent with the predicted dominant de novo etiology of LMS, we identified causative heterozygous missense mutations in PTDSS1, which encodes phosphatidylserine synthase 1 (PSS1). PSS1 is one of two enzymes involved in the production of phosphatidylserine. Phosphatidylserine synthesis was increased in intact fibroblasts from affected individuals, and end-product inhibition of PSS1 by phosphatidylserine was markedly reduced. Therefore, these mutations cause a gain-of-function effect associated with regulatory dysfunction of PSS1. We have identified LMS as the first human disease, to our knowledge, caused by disrupted phosphatidylserine metabolism. Our results point to an unexplored link between phosphatidylserine synthesis and bone metabolism.


European Journal of Human Genetics | 2013

Nebulin (NEB) mutations in a childhood onset distal myopathy with rods and cores uncovered by next generation sequencing.

M. Scoto; Thomas Cullup; Sebahattin Cirak; Shu Yau; Adnan Y. Manzur; L. Feng; Ts Jacques; Glenn Anderson; Stephen Abbs; Caroline Sewry; Heinz Jungbluth; Francesco Muntoni

Recessive nebulin (NEB) mutations are a common cause of nemaline myopathy (NM), typically characterized by generalized weakness of early-onset and nemaline rods on muscle biopsy. Exceptional adult cases with additional cores and an isolated distal weakness have been reported. The large NEB gene with 183 exons has been an obstacle for the genetic work-up. Here we report a childhood-onset case with distal weakness and a core-rod myopathy, associated with recessive NEB mutations identified by next generation sequencing (NGS). This 6-year-old boy presented with a history of gross-motor difficulties following a normal early development. He had distal leg weakness with bilateral foot drop, as well as axial muscle weakness, scoliosis and spinal rigidity; additionally he required nocturnal respiratory support. Muscle magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed distal involvement in the medial and anterior compartment of the lower leg. A muscle biopsy featured both rods and cores. Initial targeted testing identified a heterozygous Nebulin exon 55 deletion. Further analysis using NGS revealed a frameshifting 4 bp duplication, c.24372_24375dup (P.Val8126fs), on the opposite allele. This case illustrates that NEB mutations can cause childhood onset distal NM, with additional cores on muscle biopsy and proves the diagnostic utility of NGS for myopathies, particularly when large genes are implicated.

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Ts Jacques

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

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Nj Sebire

Great Ormond Street Hospital

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M Malone

Great Ormond Street Hospital

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Simon Paine

University of Nottingham

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Paul Gissen

University College London

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Peter Clayton

University of Manchester

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Shamima Rahman

Great Ormond Street Hospital

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William Harkness

Great Ormond Street Hospital

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Dagan Jenkins

UCL Institute of Child Health

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Jh Cross

Great Ormond Street Hospital

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