APP carboxyl-terminal fragment without or with A beta domain equally induces cytotoxicity in differentiated PC12 cells and cortical neurons
- Authors
- Lee, JP; Chang, KA; Kim, HS; Kim, SS; Jeong, SJ; Suh, YH
- Issue Date
- May-2000
- Publisher
- WILEY-LISS
- Keywords
- Alzheimer disease; amyloid precursor protein; amyloid beta protein; C-terminal fragments of APP
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, v.60, no.4, pp 565 - 570
- Pages
- 6
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
- Volume
- 60
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 565
- End Page
- 570
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/47369
- DOI
- 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(20000515)60:4<565::AID-JNR16>3.0.CO;2-I
- ISSN
- 0360-4012
1097-4547
- Abstract
- Mutations in the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene cause familial Alzheimer's disease (AD), Although amyloid beta peptide (A beta) is the principal constituent of senile plaques in AD, other cleavage products of APP are also implicated in playing a role in the pathogenesis of AD. C-terminal fragments of APP (APP-CTs), that contain complete A beta sequence, are found in neuritic plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and the cytosol of lymphoblastoid cells obtained from AD patients. Our previous report demonstrated that APP-CT105 causes death of differentiated PC12 cells and cultured rat cortical neurons (Kim and Suh [1996] J. Neurochem. 67:1172-1182) and induces strong inward currents in Xenopus oocyte (Fraser et at., [1996] J. Neurochem. 66:2034-2040). In the present study, to investigate which domain of APP-CT105 is responsible for the neurotoxicity, we have made deletion mutants of APP-CT105 without A beta and transmembrane domain (TM) or without NPTY domain, a putative endocytosis signaling sequence, using the PCR-amplified strategy and the recombinant GST-fusion protein strategy. The effect on cell survival of the deletion mutants of APP-CT105 (8 mu M) was then determined by the LDH and MTT assay. We found that C-terminal fragment without NPTY significantly causes cell death in NGF-differentiated PC12 cells and cultured rat cortical neurons. This finding suggests that NPTY may not play an important role in APP-CT105 mediated neurotoxicity. We found, however, that C-terminal fragment without A beta and TM significantly induces neuronal cell death. Our results suggest that in addition to A beta, C-terminal fragment of APP without A beta and TM domain itself may also participate in the neuronal degeneration in AD. (C) 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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