Abstract
Aberrant proteolytical processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gives rise to β-amyloid peptides, which form deposits characteristic for the brains of Alzheimers disease patients. From in vitro studies, protein kinase C (PKC) is known for almost 20 years to be involved the secretory pathway of APP processing, resulting in the reduced generation of β-amyloid peptides. However, the toxicity of activators of PKC, such as phorbol esters, has prevented to test the hypothesis of an inverse regulation of secretory APP processing and β-amyloid generation in vivo. Here we present an animal model which allows to reveal the function of PKC in the proteolytical processing of APP in vivo. Studies by Johnstone and Coyle from the early 1980s have shown that treatment of pregnant rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) results in the induction of neocortical microencephalopathy of the offsprings. Later on, the constitutive overactivation of PKC isoforms was described in affected brain structures of these animals. This led to the idea to study the APP processing under conditions of overactivated PKC in the brains of such animals in vivo. However, in mice and rats one can follow the generation of secretory APP products but the detection of rodent β-amyloid peptides is delicate. Therefore, we adapted the MAM model to guinea pigs, which have a human β-amyloid sequence, and investigated the relation between secretory APP processing and β-amyloid generation in vivo. In the brains of microencephalic guinea pigs we observed increased levels of secretory APP fragments but no change in the concentration of β-amyloid peptides. Our results indicate that both pathways of APP processing are differentially controlled under these experimental conditions in vivo.
Keywords: alzheimers disease, amyloid precursor protein, secretases, protein kinase c, guinea pig, microencephalopathy
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Title: Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing in Vivo - Insights from a Chemically- Induced Constitutive Overactivation of Protein Kinase C in Guinea Pig Brain
Volume: 10 Issue: 10
Author(s): Volker Bigl and Steffen Roßner
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Keywords: alzheimers disease, amyloid precursor protein, secretases, protein kinase c, guinea pig, microencephalopathy
Abstract: Aberrant proteolytical processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gives rise to β-amyloid peptides, which form deposits characteristic for the brains of Alzheimers disease patients. From in vitro studies, protein kinase C (PKC) is known for almost 20 years to be involved the secretory pathway of APP processing, resulting in the reduced generation of β-amyloid peptides. However, the toxicity of activators of PKC, such as phorbol esters, has prevented to test the hypothesis of an inverse regulation of secretory APP processing and β-amyloid generation in vivo. Here we present an animal model which allows to reveal the function of PKC in the proteolytical processing of APP in vivo. Studies by Johnstone and Coyle from the early 1980s have shown that treatment of pregnant rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) results in the induction of neocortical microencephalopathy of the offsprings. Later on, the constitutive overactivation of PKC isoforms was described in affected brain structures of these animals. This led to the idea to study the APP processing under conditions of overactivated PKC in the brains of such animals in vivo. However, in mice and rats one can follow the generation of secretory APP products but the detection of rodent β-amyloid peptides is delicate. Therefore, we adapted the MAM model to guinea pigs, which have a human β-amyloid sequence, and investigated the relation between secretory APP processing and β-amyloid generation in vivo. In the brains of microencephalic guinea pigs we observed increased levels of secretory APP fragments but no change in the concentration of β-amyloid peptides. Our results indicate that both pathways of APP processing are differentially controlled under these experimental conditions in vivo.
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Bigl Volker and Roßner Steffen, Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing in Vivo - Insights from a Chemically- Induced Constitutive Overactivation of Protein Kinase C in Guinea Pig Brain, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2003; 10 (10) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867033457692
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