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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
The Alzheimer's disease Abeta peptide can increase the levels of cell-associated amyloid precursor protein (APP) in vitro. To determine the specificity of this response for Abeta and whether it is related to cytotoxicity, we tested a diverse range of fibrillar peptides including amyloid-beta (Abeta), the fibrillar prion peptides PrP106-126 and PrP178-193 and human islet-cell amylin. All these peptides increased the levels of APP and amyloid precursor-like protein 2 (APLP2) in primary cultures of astrocytes and neurons. Specificity was shown by a lack of change to amyloid precursor-like protein 1, tau-1 and cellular prion protein (PrP(c)) levels. APP and APLP2 levels were elevated only in cultures exposed to fibrillar peptides as assessed by electron microscopy and not in cultures treated with non-fibrillogenic peptide variants or aggregated lipoprotein. We found that PrP106-126 and the non-toxic but fibril-forming PrP178-193 increased APP levels in cultures derived from both wild-type and PrP(c)-deficient mice indicating that fibrillar peptides up-regulate APP through a non-cytotoxic mechanism and irrespective of parental protein expression. Fibrillar PrP106-126 and Abeta peptides bound recombinant APP and APLP2 suggesting the accumulation of these proteins was mediated by direct binding to the fibrillated peptide. This was supported by decreased APP accumulation following extensive washing of the cultures to remove fibrillar aggregates. Pre-incubation of fibrillar peptide with recombinant APP18-146, the putative fibril binding site, also abrogated the accumulation of APP. These findings show that diverse fibrillogenic peptides can induce accumulation of APP and APLP2 and this mechanism could contribute to pathogenesis in neurodegenerative disorders.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/APLP1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/APLP2 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amyloid beta-Peptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Aplp1 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Aplp2 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Fragments, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Prions, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/amyloid beta-protein (1-42), http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/prion protein (106-126)
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
966
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
231-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-8-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Alzheimer Disease, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Amyloid beta-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Astrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Microglia, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Microscopy, Electron, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Prions, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:12618346-Recombinant Proteins
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Diverse fibrillar peptides directly bind the Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein and amyloid precursor-like protein 2 resulting in cellular accumulation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't