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BACE2, a beta-secretase homolog, cleaves at the beta site and within the amyloid-beta region of the amyloid-beta precursor protein

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authors

  • Farzan, Michael
  • Schnitzler, C. E.
  • Vasilieva, N.
  • Leung, D.
  • Choe, Hyeryun

publication date

  • 2000

journal

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

abstract

  • Production of amyloid-beta protein (Abeta) is initiated by a beta-secretase that cleaves the Abeta precursor protein (APP) at the N terminus of Abeta (the beta site). A recently identified aspartyl protease, BACE, cleaves the beta site and at residue 11 within the Abeta region of APP. Here we show that BACE2, a BACE homolog, cleaves at the beta site and more efficiently at a different site within Abeta. The Flemish missense mutation of APP, implicated in a form of familial Alzheimer's disease, is adjacent to this latter site and markedly increases Abeta production by BACE2 but not by BACE. BACE and BACE2 respond identically to conservative beta-site mutations, and alteration of a common active site Arg inhibits beta-site cleavage but not cleavage within Abeta by both enzymes. These data suggest that BACE2 contributes to Abeta production in individuals bearing the Flemish mutation, and that selective inhibition of these highly similar proteases may be feasible and therapeutically advantageous.

subject areas

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides
  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
  • Arginine
  • Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases
  • Binding Sites
  • Cell Line
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Endopeptidases
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation, Missense
  • Nervous System
  • Netherlands
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Phenylalanine
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Substrate Specificity
  • Sweden
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC16930

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0027-8424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.160115697

PubMed ID

  • 10931940
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 9712

end page

  • 9717

volume

  • 97

issue

  • 17

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