Urinary proteome profiling for stratifying patients with familial Parkinson’s disease

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  • Sebastian Virreira Winter
  • Ozge Karayel
  • Maximilian T. Strauss
  • Shalini Padmanabhan
  • Matthew Surface
  • Kalpana Merchant
  • Roy N. Alcalay
  • Mann, Matthias

The prevalence of Parkinson's disease (PD) is increasing but the development of novel treatment strategies and therapeutics altering the course of the disease would benefit from specific, sensitive, and non-invasive biomarkers to detect PD early. Here, we describe a scalable and sensitive mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic workflow for urinary proteome profiling. Our workflow enabled the reproducible quantification of more than 2,000 proteins in more than 200 urine samples using minimal volumes from two independent patient cohorts. The urinary proteome was significantly different between PD patients and healthy controls, as well as between LRRK2 G2019S carriers and non-carriers in both cohorts. Interestingly, our data revealed lysosomal dysregulation in individuals with the LRRK2 G2019S mutation. When combined with machine learning, the urinary proteome data alone were sufficient to classify mutation status and disease manifestation in mutation carriers remarkably well, identifying VGF, ENPEP, and other PD-associated proteins as the most discriminating features. Taken together, our results validate urinary proteomics as a valuable strategy for biomarker discovery and patient stratification in PD.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere13257
JournalEMBO Molecular Medicine
Volume13
Issue number3
Number of pages19
ISSN1757-4676
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

    Research areas

  • biomarker, DIA, mass spectrometry, Parkinson’s disease, urinary proteome

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