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Brain Res ; 966(2): 231-44, 2003 Mar 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12618346

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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.


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Doença de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Precursor de Proteína beta-Amiloide/metabolismo , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/classificação , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/farmacologia , Precursor de Proteína beta-Amiloide/ultraestrutura , Animais , Astrócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Astrócitos/metabolismo , Sobrevivência Celular/fisiologia , Células Cultivadas , Humanos , Immunoblotting/métodos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Microglia/efeitos dos fármacos , Microglia/metabolismo , Microscopia Eletrônica/métodos , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/ultraestrutura , Neurônios/efeitos dos fármacos , Neurônios/ultraestrutura , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/farmacologia , Príons/classificação , Príons/farmacologia , Ligação Proteica , Proteínas Recombinantes
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