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Alzheimer amyloid precursor aspartyl proteinase activity in CHAPSO homogenates of Spodoptera frugiperda cells.

Alzheimer disease and associated disorders (2004-12-14)
Troy L Carter, Giuseppe Verdile, David Groth, Alexey Bogush, Stefani Thomas, Patrick Shen, Paul E Fraser, Paul Mathews, Ralph A Nixon, Michelle E Ehrlich, John B J Kwok, Peter St George-Hyslop, Peter Schofield, Yueming Li, Austin Yang, Ralph N Martins, Sam Gandy
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Presenilins are polytopic, integral proteins that control intramembranous proteolysis at the "gamma-" and "epsilon-" cleavage sites of the Alzheimer amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) to yield amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) and the APP intracellular domain (AICD). We have overexpressed a constitutively active, pathogenic form of PS1 (known as PS1 Delta exon 9) together with its substrate, APP-C99, in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells. Sf9 cells have been reported to lack endogenous gamma-secretase, an unexpected finding since there exists an insect homologue of PS1. In our hands, neither intact insect cells coexpressing PS1 Delta exon 9/APP-C99 nor the aqueous homogenates of these cells displayed obvious products of the gamma- or epsilon-secretase reactions, as reported. Surprisingly, when APP-C99-expressing cells were homogenized in 3[(3-cholamidopropyl) dimethylammonio]-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acid (CHAPSO), a detergent known to support gamma-secretase activity, subsequent incubation led to the accumulation of an AICD-like peptide (AICD-L). Aspartyl proteinase inhibitors were effective in preventing the appearance of AICD-L, but inhibitors of other classes of proteinases were ineffective. Immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry of AICD-L revealed its identity as the minor of the two known AICDs.

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CHAPSO, ≥98%
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CHAPSO, BioXtra