Journal article
Histochemical Analysis of Glaucoma Caused by a Myocilin Mutation in a Human Donor Eye
Ophthalmology Glaucoma, Vol.1(2), pp.132-138
2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.ogla.2018.08.004
PMID: 30906929
Abstract
Objective: Mutations in myocilin (MYOC) may cause either juvenile open angle glaucoma (JOAG) or adult-onset primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). MYOC encodes a glycoprotein that is normally secreted from trabecular meshwork cells that regulate intraocular pressure. Prior in vitro, transgenic rodent, and organ culture experiments have suggested that abnormal accumulation of MYOC protein within trabecular meshwork cells is a key step in glaucoma pathophysiology. We investigated the pathogenesis of MYOC glaucoma by examining a donor eye from a patient with JOAG caused by a Tyr437His MYOC mutation.Design: Case-control, immunohistochemical study of a donor eye from a patient with JOAG caused by a Tyr437His MYOC mutation and age-matched control donor eyes.Subjects: An eye from a 59-year-old male with JOAG caused by a Tyr437His MYOC mutation and eyes from five donors (ages 51-66) with no known ocular disease were examined.Methods: Frozen fixed sections of the iridocorneal angle were prepared from the donor eyes of the MYOC glaucoma patient and control eyes. We used antibodies directed against MYOC, collagen IV, and BiP/GRP78 as well as wheat germ agglutinin and concanavalin A lectins to localize MYOC protein in the trabecular meshwork.Main Outcome Measure: Qualitative comparison of MYOC protein labeling and localization in the trabecular meshwork of donor eyes from a glaucoma patient with a MYOC mutation and from control subjects.Results: Using immunohistochemistry, we detected more abundant MYOC protein within the trabecular meshwork of the MYOC glaucoma patient's eye than in control eyes. We further localized MYOC protein within the trabecular meshwork cells of the MYOC glaucoma patient's eye by co-labeling with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker GRP78 (BiP). Little to no MYOC was identified within the trabecular meshwork cells of control eyes. Minimal extracellular MYOC was detected in both MYOC glaucoma eyes and control eyes.Conclusions: This is the first histopathological analysis of an eye from a glaucoma patient with a MYOC mutation. Furthermore, this analysis supports our model of MYOC-associated glaucoma, in which MYOC mutations cause abnormal intracellular retention of MYOC within the ER of trabecular meshwork cells as a key step towards development of glaucoma.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Histochemical Analysis of Glaucoma Caused by a Myocilin Mutation in a Human Donor Eye
- Creators
- Carly van der HeideWallace AlwardMiles Flamme-WieseMegan RikerNasreen SyedMichael AndersonKeith CarterMarkus KuehnEdwin StoneRobert MullinsJohn Fingert
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ophthalmology Glaucoma, Vol.1(2), pp.132-138
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ogla.2018.08.004
- PMID
- 30906929
- NLM abbreviation
- Ophthalmol Glaucoma
- ISSN
- 2589-4196
- eISSN
- 2589-4196
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: R01EY023512, P30 EY025580; name: Marlene and Leonard Hadley and Martin Carver Chair; DOI: 10.13039/100002924, name: Glaucoma Foundation; DOI: 10.13039/100000738, name: United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Psychiatry; Pathology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983980011302771
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