Autor: |
Zatsepina OG; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Kechko OI; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Mitkevich VA; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Kozin SA; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Yurinskaya MM; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.; Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia., Vinokurov MG; Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia., Serebryakova MV; A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology MSU, Moscow, Russia., Rezvykh AP; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Evgen'ev MB; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Makarov AA; Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. aamakarov@eimb.ru. |
Abstrakt: |
Neuronal dysfunction and loss associated with the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the form of extracellular amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau in the form of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles represent key features of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Amyloid plaques found in the brains of AD patients are predominantly composed of Aβ42 and its multiple chemically or structurally modified isoforms. Recently, we demonstrated that Aβ42 with isomerised Asp7 (isoAβ42) which is one of the most abundant Aβ isoform in plaques, exhibited high neurotoxicity in human neuronal cells. Here, we show that, in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells, the administration of synthetic isoAβ42 rather than intact Aβ42 resulted in a significantly higher level of protein phosphorylation, especially the phosphorylation of tau, tubulins, and matrin 3. IsoAβ42 induced a drastic reduction of tau protein levels. Our data demonstrate, for the first time, that isoAβ42, being to date the only known synthetic Aβ species to cause AD-like amyloidogenesis in an animal AD model, induced cell death by disabling structural proteins in a manner characteristic of that observed in the neurons of AD patients. The data emphasize an important role of isoAβ42 in AD progression and provide possible neurotoxicity paths for this particular isoform. |