Nonfibrillar diffuse amyloid deposition due to a γ 42-secretase site mutation points to an essential role for N-truncated Aβ 42 in Alzheimer's disease

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Abstract

Amyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) with deposition in brain of the 42 amino acid long amyloid β-peptide (Aβ 42) is considered central to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. However, it is generally believed that nonfibrillar pre-amyloid Aβ 42 deposits have to mature in the presence of Aβ 40 into fibrillar amyloid plaques to cause neurodegeneration. Here, we describe an aggressive form of AD caused by a novel missense mutation in APP (T714I) directly involving γ-secretase cleavages of APP. The mutation had the most drastic effect on Aβ 42/Aβ 40 ration in vitro of ~ 11-fold, simultaneously increasing Aβ 42 and decreasing Aβ 40 secretion, as measured by matrix-assisted laser disorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This coincided in brain with deposition of abundant and predominant nonfibrillar pre-amyloid plaques composed primarily of N-truncated Aβ(42) in complete absence of Aβ 40. These data indicate that N-truncated Aβ 42 as diffuse nonfibrillar plaques has an essential but undermined role in AD pathology. Importantly, inhibiting secretion of full-length Aβ 42 by therapeutic targeting of APP processing should not result in secretion of an equally toxic N-truncated Aβ 42.

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Kumar-Singh, S., De Jonghe, C., Cruts, M., Kleinert, R., Wang, R., Mercken, M., … Van Broeckhoven, C. (2000). Nonfibrillar diffuse amyloid deposition due to a γ 42-secretase site mutation points to an essential role for N-truncated Aβ 42 in Alzheimer’s disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 9(18), 2589–2598. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/9.18.2589

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