scholarly journals BRI2 Interacts with Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) and Regulates Amyloid β (Aβ) Production

2005 ◽  
Vol 280 (35) ◽  
pp. 30768-30772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Fotinopoulou ◽  
Maria Tsachaki ◽  
Maria Vlavaki ◽  
Alexandros Poulopoulos ◽  
Agueda Rostagno ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chung ◽  
G. Phukan ◽  
D. Vergote ◽  
A. Mohamed ◽  
M. Maulik ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP), plays a critical role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Current evidence indicates that altered levels or subcellular distribution of cholesterol can regulate Aβ production and clearance, but it remains unclear how cholesterol sequestration within the endosomal-lysosomal (EL) system can influence APP metabolism. Thus, we evaluated the effects of U18666A, which triggers cholesterol redistribution within the EL system, on mouse N2a cells expressing different levels of APP in the presence or absence of extracellular cholesterol and lipids provided by fetal bovine serum (FBS). Our results reveal that U18666A and FBS differentially increase the levels of APP and its cleaved products, the α-, β-, and η-C-terminal fragments, in N2a cells expressing normal levels of mouse APP (N2awt), higher levels of human wild-type APP (APPwt), or “Swedish” mutant APP (APPsw). The cellular levels of Aβ 1–40 /Aβ 1–42 were markedly increased in U18666A-treated APPwt and APPsw cells. Our studies further demonstrate that APP and its cleaved products are partly accumulated in the lysosomes, possibly due to decreased clearance. Finally, we show that autophagy inhibition plays a role in mediating U18666A effects. Collectively, these results suggest that altered levels and distribution of cholesterol and lipids can differentially regulate APP metabolism depending on the nature of APP expression.


Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Oh-Hoon Kwon ◽  
Yoon Young Cho ◽  
Jung Hee Lee ◽  
Sungkwon Chung

Like protein phosphorylation, O-GlcNAcylation is a common post-translational protein modification. We already reported that O-GlcNAcylation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in response to insulin signaling reduces neurotoxic amyloid-β (Aβ) production via inhibition of APP endocytosis. Internalized APP is delivered to endosomes and lysosomes where Aβ is produced. However, the molecular mechanism involved in the effect of APP O-GlcNAcylation on APP trafficking remains unknown. To investigate the relationship between APP O-GlcNAcylation and APP endocytosis, we tested the effects of insulin on neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells overexpressing APP and BACE1, and cultured rat hippocampal neurons. The present study showed that APP O-GlcNAcylation translocated APP from lipid raft to non-raft microdomains in the plasma membrane by using immunocytochemistry and discontinuous sucrose gradients method. By using the biotinylation method, we also found that APP preferentially underwent endocytosis from lipid rafts and that the amount of internalized APP from lipid rafts was specifically reduced by O-GlcNAcylation. These results indicate that O-GlcNAcylation can regulate lipid raft-dependent APP endocytosis via translocation of APP into non-raft microdomains. Our findings showed a new functional role of O-GlcNAcylation for the regulation of APP trafficking, offering new mechanistic insight for Aβ production.


2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (11) ◽  
pp. 3678-3691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuneyoshi Seki ◽  
Motoi Kanagawa ◽  
Kazuhiro Kobayashi ◽  
Hisatomo Kowa ◽  
Naoki Yahata ◽  
...  

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and its pathogenesis is associated with accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides. Aβ is produced from amyloid precursor protein (APP) that is sequentially cleaved by β- and γ-secretases. Therefore, APP processing has been a target in therapeutic strategies for managing AD; however, no effective treatment of AD patients is currently available. Here, to identify endogenous factors that modulate Aβ production, we performed a gene microarray–based transcriptome analysis of neuronal cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, because Aβ production in these cells changes during neuronal differentiation. We found that expression of the glycophosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase D1 (GPLD1) gene is associated with these changes in Aβ production. GPLD1 overexpression in HEK293 cells increased the secretion of galectin 3–binding protein (GAL3BP), which suppressed Aβ production in an AD model, neuroglioma H4 cells. Mechanistically, GAL3BP suppressed Aβ production by directly interacting with APP and thereby inhibiting APP processing by β-secretase. Furthermore, we show that cells take up extracellularly added GAL3BP via endocytosis and that GAL3BP is localized in close proximity to APP in endosomes where amyloidogenic APP processing takes place. Taken together, our results indicate that GAL3BP may be a suitable target of AD-modifying drugs in future therapeutic strategies for managing AD.


2012 ◽  
Vol 287 (48) ◽  
pp. 40629-40640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Jin Park ◽  
Daniil Shabashvili ◽  
Michael D. Nekorchuk ◽  
Eva Shyqyriu ◽  
Joo In Jung ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Kuznetsov ◽  
A. V. Kuznetsov

Modeling of intracellular processes occurring during the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be instrumental in understanding the disease and can potentially contribute to finding treatments for the disease. The model of intracellular processes in AD, which we previously developed, contains a large number of parameters. To distinguish between more important and less important parameters, we performed a local sensitivity analysis of this model around the values of parameters that give the best fit with published experimental results. We show that the influence of model parameters on the total concentrations of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and tubulin-associated unit (tau) protein in the axon is reciprocal to the influence of the same parameters on the average velocities of the same proteins during their transport in the axon. The results of our analysis also suggest that in the beginning of AD the aggregation of amyloid-β and misfolded tau protein have little effect on transport of APP and tau in the axon, which suggests that early damage in AD may be reversible.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. e0135741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Bourdet ◽  
Aurélie Lampin-Saint-Amaux ◽  
Thomas Preat ◽  
Valérie Goguel

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhi A. Tan ◽  
Lou Fourriere ◽  
Jingqi Wang ◽  
Franck Perez ◽  
Gaelle Boncompain ◽  
...  

The anterograde trafficking of BACE1 and the potential processing of amyloid precursor protein along the secretory pathway remain poorly defined. Our findings reveal that Golgi exit of BACE1 and APP in primary neurons is tightly regulated, resulting in their segregation along different transport routes, which limits APP processing.


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