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Proteolytic processing and secretion of human beta-amyloid precursor protein in yeast. Evidence for a yeast secretase activity.

Human beta-amyloid precursor protein ( APP), the transmembrane precursor of the Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid peptide, was expressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by fusion to prepro-alpha-factor. From analysis of protease-deficient yeast strains, the fusion protein underwent partial processing by Kex2 protease to generate full-length APP and a fraction of the molecules were degraded in the vacuole. A soluble APP ectodomain fragment bearing lumenal but not cytosolic epitopes was released into the media, indicating cleavage by a "membrane protein-solubilizing proteinase" or "secretase" activity. Yeast cells contained a C-terminal APP fragment that co-migrated with authentic C-terminal fragment derived from alpha-secretase cleavage of full-length APP in human cells. The N-terminal sequence of immunoaffinity purified C-terminal APP fragment from yeast was identical to that reported in mammalian and insect cells. These results demonstrate the existence of a secretase activity in yeast. Furthermore, this yeast secretase activity may be related to an APP processing activity present in metazoan cells.[1]

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  1. Proteolytic processing and secretion of human beta-amyloid precursor protein in yeast. Evidence for a yeast secretase activity. Zhang, H., Komano, H., Fuller, R.S., Gandy, S.E., Frail, D.E. J. Biol. Chem. (1994) [Pubmed]
 
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