Abstract
Amyloid plaques, composed mainly by a peptide termed A4-amyloid, derived by proteolytic processing from the amyloid precursor protein (APP), are a hallmark in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients. We have prepared a collection of monoclonal antibodies as tools to study APP expression and proteolysis in different systems. One of these, 5AH10, raised against residues 9-22 of A4-peptide, was selected for its ability to recognize only A4 subpeptides having the intact APP-secretase target sequence, as well as whole recombinant APP. By using synthetic subpeptides, we have located 5AH10 epitope between amino acids 15 and 22 of A4. In addition, 5AH10 showed a strong immunoreactivity to a 47 kDa protein present in rat brain extracts, that was identified as the B (brain specific) subunit of creatine kinase by immunochemical data and direct N-terminal sequencing. The cross-reaction observed is most probably due to a high degree of sequence identity between amino acids 15 to 22 of A4 peptide and amino acids 9 to 16 of rat B creatine kinase. 5AH10 did not recognize the muscle specific isoform (M subunit) of rat creatine kinase, nor the B subunit of human and rabbit creatine kinase, suggesting that glutamine at first position of the epi...Continue Reading
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