Competitive binding of extracellular accumulated heparan sulfate reduces lysosomal storage defects and triggers neuronal differentiation in a model of Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB release_wcsmzt26nzf4rp2o2cgcm5p2aa

by Valeria De Pasquale, Gianluca Scerra, Melania Scarcella, Massimo D'Agostino, Luigi Michele Pavone

Published in BBA - Molecular Cell Research by Elsevier BV.

2021   Volume 1868, Issue 11, p119113

Abstract

Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are a group of inherited lysosomal storage disorders associated with the deficiency of lysosomal enzymes involved in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) degradation. The resulting cellular accumulation of GAGs is responsible for widespread tissue and organ dysfunctions. The MPS III, caused by mutations in the genes responsible for the degradation of heparan sulfate (HS), includes four subtypes (A, B, C, and D) that present significant neurological manifestations such as progressive cognitive decline and behavioral disorders. The established treatments for the MPS III do not cure the disease but only ameliorate non-neurological clinical symptoms. We previously demonstrated that the natural variant of the hepatocyte growth factor NK1 reduces the lysosomal pathology and reactivates impaired growth factor signaling in fibroblasts from MPS IIIB patients. Here, we show that the recombinant NK1 is effective in rescuing the morphological and functional dysfunctions of lysosomes in a neuronal cellular model of the MPS IIIB. More importantly, NK1 treatment is able to stimulate neuronal differentiation of neuroblastoma SK-NBE cells stable silenced for the NAGLU gene causative of the MPS IIIB. These results provide the basis for the development of a novel approach to possibly correct the neurological phenotypes of the MPS IIIB as well as of other MPSs characterized by the accumulation of HS and progressive neurodegeneration.
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