Electron microscopic structure of purified, active gamma-secretase reveals an aqueous intramembrane chamber and two pores.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Vlado K LazarovHuilin Li

Abstract

Gamma-secretase is an intramembrane-cleaving aspartyl protease required for the normal development of metazoans because it processes Notch within cellular membranes to release its signaling domain. More than two dozen additional substrates of diverse functions have been reported, including the Notch ligands Delta and Jagged, N- and E-cadherins, and a sodium channel subunit. The protease is causally implicated in Alzheimer's disease because it releases the neurotoxic amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) from its precursor, APP. Gamma-secretase occurs as a large complex containing presenilin (bearing the active site aspartates), nicastrin, Aph-1, and Pen-2. Because the complex contains at least 18 transmembrane domains, crystallographic approaches to its structure are difficult and remote. We recently purified the human complex essentially to homogeneity from stably expressing mammalian cells. Here, we use EM and single-particle image analysis on the purified enzyme, which produces physiological ratios of Abeta40 and Abeta42, to obtain structural information on an intramembrane protease. The 3D EM structure revealed a large, cylindrical interior chamber of approximately 20-40 A in length, consistent with a proteinaceous proteolytic site ...Continue Reading

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