Secreted amyloid precursor protein and holo-APP bind amyloid β through distinct domains eliciting different toxic responses on hippocampal neurons
✍ Scribed by Gabriela Kedikian; Florencia Heredia; Victoria Rozes Salvador; Daniel Raimunda; Nora Isoardi; Lorena Heredia; Alfredo Lorenzo
- Book ID
- 102383701
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-4012
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Amyloid β (Aβ) is a metabolic product of Aβ precursor protein (APP). Deposition of Aβ in the brain and neuronal degeneration are characteristic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ induces neuronal degeneration, but the mechanism of neurotoxicity remains elusive. Increasing evidence implicates APP as a receptor‐like protein for Aβ fibrils (fAβ). In this study, we present further experimental support for the direct interaction of APP with fAβ and for its involvement in Aβ neurotoxicity. Using recombinant purified holo‐APP (h‐APP), we have shown that it directly binds fAβ. Employing deletion mutant forms of APP, we show that two different sequences are involved in the binding of APP to fAβ. One sequence in the n‐terminus of APP is required for binding of fAβ to secreted APP (s‐APP) but not to h‐APP. In addition, the extracellular juxtamembrane Aβ‐sequence mediates binding of fAβ to h‐APP but not to s‐APP. Deletion of the extracellular juxtamembrane Aβ sequence abolishes abnormal h‐APP accumulation and toxicity induced by fAβ deposition, whereas deletions in the n‐terminus of APP do not affect Aβ toxicity. These experiments show that interaction of toxic Aβ species with its membrane‐anchored parental protein promotes toxicity in hippocampal neurons, adding further support to an Aβ‐receptor‐like function of APP directly implicated in neuronal degeneration in AD. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.