Beta-secretase processing of the beta-amyloid precursor protein in transgenic mice is efficient in neurons but inefficient in astrocytes.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
J ZhaoL McConlogue

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the extracellular deposition of beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in cerebral plaques and evidence is accumulating that amyloid is neurotoxic. Abeta is derived from the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Proteolytic processing of APP by the enzyme, beta-secretase, produces the N terminus of Abeta, and releases a secreted ectodomain of APP (beta-s-APP). To develop animal models for measuring beta-secretase activity in specific brain cells in vivo, we have targeted the expression of the full-length human APP to either neurons or astrocytes in transgenic mice using the neuron- specific enolase (NSE) promoter or a modified glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) gene, respectively. The APP cDNAs expressed were mutated (KM to NL at 670/671) to encode amino acid substitutions that enhance amyloidogenic processing in vitro. Western analyses revealed abundant production of beta-s-APP in the brains of NSE-APP mice and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analyses showed production of Abeta in fetal primary mixed brain cultures and brain homogenates from these transgenic animals. Because the NSE promoter drives expression primarily in neurons, this provides in vivo evidence that the beta-secretase cleava...Continue Reading

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