Monocytic elastase-mediated apolipoprotein-E degradation: Potential involvement of microglial elastase-like proteases in apolipoprotein-E proteolysis in brains with Alzheimers disease
| Autor: | Yoichi Matsunaga, Toshiji Saibara, Akiko Furuta, Midori Suenaga, Koichi Wakabayashi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Apolipoprotein E Proteases medicine.medical_treatment Proteolysis Apolipoprotein E4 Biophysics Biochemistry Monocytes Cell Line Analytical Chemistry Alzheimer Disease medicine Humans Senile plaques Molecular Biology Aged Serine protease Protease medicine.diagnostic_test Microglia biology Elastase Brain medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Expression Regulation biology.protein Female Leukocyte Elastase |
| Zdroj: | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1854:1010-1018 |
| ISSN: | 1570-9639 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbapap.2015.04.028 |
| Popis: | Impaired clearance of soluble Aβ (amyloid-β) promotes Aβ aggregation in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD), while apolipoprotein-E (ApoE) in microglia mediates Aβ clearance. We studied the protease responsible for ApoE(4) degradation in human peripheral monocyte extracts, which are from the same lineage as microglia. We detected the hydrolytic activity for ApoE(4) in high-salt extracts with 2 M NaCl and found that the activity was inhibited by a serine protease inhibitor and an elastase-specific inhibitor, but not by other protease inhibitors. The extracts exhibited higher activity for the elastase substrate, and we followed the activity with ion-exchange and gel-filtration chromatography. Through silver staining, we partially purified a protein of 28 kDa, which was clarified as elastase by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. These observations suggest that elastase is the key protease for ApoE(4) degradation. We also detected ApoE(4) hydrolytic activity in high-salt extracts in mouse microglial (BV-2) cell lysates, and showed that the ApoE(4) fragments by the BV-2 extracts differed from the fragments by the monocyte extracts. Though the ApoE(4) degradation by the extracts was not inhibited with elastase-specific inhibitors, it was inhibited by an elastase-specific monoclonal antibody, suggesting that elastase-like proteases in microglia differ from those of monocytes. Immunohistochemistry revealed that both elastase and ApoE were expressed in the senile plaques of brains with AD. In vitro studies also disclosed the localization of elastase in the microglial cell line, BV-2. Our results suggest that elastase-like proteases in the microglial cells surrounding Aβ plaques are responsible for ApoE degradation in the brain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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