RELEASE OF EXCESS AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN FROM A MUTANT AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR

被引:857
作者
CAI, XD [1 ]
GOLDE, TE [1 ]
YOUNKIN, SG [1 ]
机构
[1] CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV, INST PATHOL, DIV NEUROPATHOL, CLEVELAND, OH 44106 USA
关键词
D O I
10.1126/science.8424174
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The 4-kilodalton amyloid beta protein (Abeta), which forms fibrillar deposits in Alzheimer's disease (AD), is derived from a large protein referred to as the amyloid beta protein precursor (betaAPP). Human neuroblastoma (M17) cells transfected with constructs expressing wild-type betaAPP or a mutant, betaAPP(DELTANL), recently linked to familial AD were compared. After continuous metabolic labeling for 8 hours, cells expressing betaAPP(DELTANL) had five times more of an Abeta-bearing, carboxyl terminal, betaAPP derivative than cells expressing wild-type betaAPP and they released six times more Abeta into the medium. Thus this mutant betaAPP may cause AD because its processing is altered in a way that releases increased amounts of Abeta.
引用
收藏
页码:514 / 516
页数:3
相关论文
共 36 条
[1]  
BURDICK D, 1992, J BIOL CHEM, V267, P546
[2]  
CAI X, UNPUB
[3]   CHLOROQUINE INHIBITS INTRACELLULAR DEGRADATION BUT NOT SECRETION OF ALZHEIMER BETA/A4 AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN [J].
CAPORASO, GL ;
GANDY, SE ;
BUXBAUM, JD ;
GREENGARD, P .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1992, 89 (06) :2252-2256
[4]   EARLY-ONSET ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE CAUSED BY MUTATIONS AT CODON-717 OF THE BETA-AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN GENE [J].
CHARTIERHARLIN, MC ;
CRAWFORD, F ;
HOULDEN, H ;
WARREN, A ;
HUGHES, D ;
FIDANI, L ;
GOATE, A ;
ROSSOR, M ;
ROQUES, P ;
HARDY, J ;
MULLAN, M .
NATURE, 1991, 353 (6347) :844-846
[5]  
COLE GM, 1990, INT CONGR SER, V884, P113
[6]   EVIDENCE FOR LYSOSOMAL PROCESSING OF AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR IN CULTURED-CELLS [J].
COLE, GM ;
HUYNH, TV ;
SAITOH, T .
NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH, 1989, 14 (10) :933-939
[7]   CLEAVAGE OF AMYLOID-BETA PEPTIDE DURING CONSTITUTIVE PROCESSING OF ITS PRECURSOR [J].
ESCH, FS ;
KEIM, PS ;
BEATTIE, EC ;
BLACHER, RW ;
CULWELL, AR ;
OLTERSDORF, T ;
MCCLURE, D ;
WARD, PJ .
SCIENCE, 1990, 248 (4959) :1122-1124
[8]   POTENTIALLY AMYLOIDOGENIC, CARBOXYL-TERMINAL DERIVATIVES OF THE AMYLOID PROTEIN-PRECURSOR [J].
ESTUS, S ;
GOLDE, TE ;
KUNISHITA, T ;
BLADES, D ;
LOWERY, D ;
EISEN, M ;
USIAK, M ;
QU, XM ;
TABIRA, T ;
GREENBERG, BD ;
YOUNKIN, SG .
SCIENCE, 1992, 255 (5045) :726-728
[9]  
GLENNER G, 1983, BRANBURY REPORT, V15, P137
[10]   ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE AND DOWNS-SYNDROME - SHARING OF A UNIQUE CEREBROVASCULAR AMYLOID FIBRIL PROTEIN [J].
GLENNER, GG ;
WONG, CW .
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, 1984, 122 (03) :1131-1135