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Proteasome stress leads to APP axonal transport defects by promoting its amyloidogenic processing in lysosomes.

Journal of cell science (2018-05-05)
María Gabriela Otero, Ivan Fernandez Bessone, Alan Earle Hallberg, Lucas Eneas Cromberg, María Cecilia De Rossi, Trinidad M Saez, Valeria Levi, Angels Almenar-Queralt, Tomás Luis Falzone
RÉSUMÉ

Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology includes the accumulation of poly-ubiquitylated (also known as poly-ubiquitinated) proteins and failures in proteasome-dependent degradation. Whereas the distribution of proteasomes and its role in synaptic function have been studied, whether proteasome activity regulates the axonal transport and metabolism of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), remains elusive. By using live imaging in primary hippocampal neurons, we showed that proteasome inhibition rapidly and severely impairs the axonal transport of APP. Fluorescence cross-correlation analyses and membrane internalization blockage experiments showed that plasma membrane APP does not contribute to transport defects. Moreover, by western blotting and double-color APP imaging, we demonstrated that proteasome inhibition precludes APP axonal transport by enhancing its endo-lysosomal delivery, where β-cleavage is induced. Taken together, we found that proteasomes control the distal transport of APP and can re-distribute Golgi-derived vesicles to the endo-lysosomal pathway. This crosstalk between proteasomes and lysosomes regulates the intracellular APP dynamics, and defects in proteasome activity can be considered a contributing factor that leads to abnormal APP metabolism in AD.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.

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