The Aβ(1–38) peptide is a negative regulator of the Aβ(1–42) peptide implicated in Alzheimer disease progression

Abstract The pool of β-Amyloid (Aβ) length variants detected in preclinical and clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) samples suggests a diversity of roles for Aβ peptides. We examined how a naturally occurring variant, e.g. Aβ(1–38), interacts with the AD-related variant, Aβ(1–42), and the predominant ph...

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Autores principales: Maa O. Quartey, Jennifer N. K. Nyarko, Jason M. Maley, Jocelyn R. Barnes, Maria A. C. Bolanos, Ryan M. Heistad, Kaeli J. Knudsen, Paul R. Pennington, Josef Buttigieg, Carlos E. De Carvalho, Scot C. Leary, Matthew P. Parsons, Darrell D. Mousseau
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract The pool of β-Amyloid (Aβ) length variants detected in preclinical and clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) samples suggests a diversity of roles for Aβ peptides. We examined how a naturally occurring variant, e.g. Aβ(1–38), interacts with the AD-related variant, Aβ(1–42), and the predominant physiological variant, Aβ(1–40). Atomic force microscopy, Thioflavin T fluorescence, circular dichroism, dynamic light scattering, and surface plasmon resonance reveal that Aβ(1–38) interacts differently with Aβ(1–40) and Aβ(1–42) and, in general, Aβ(1–38) interferes with the conversion of Aβ(1–42) to a β-sheet-rich aggregate. Functionally, Aβ(1–38) reverses the negative impact of Aβ(1–42) on long-term potentiation in acute hippocampal slices and on membrane conductance in primary neurons, and mitigates an Aβ(1–42) phenotype in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aβ(1–38) also reverses any loss of MTT conversion induced by Aβ(1–40) and Aβ(1–42) in HT-22 hippocampal neurons and APOE ε4-positive human fibroblasts, although the combination of Aβ(1–38) and Aβ(1–42) inhibits MTT conversion in APOE ε4-negative fibroblasts. A greater ratio of soluble Aβ(1–42)/Aβ(1–38) [and Aβ(1–42)/Aβ(1–40)] in autopsied brain extracts correlates with an earlier age-at-death in males (but not females) with a diagnosis of AD. These results suggest that Aβ(1–38) is capable of physically counteracting, potentially in a sex-dependent manner, the neuropathological effects of the AD-relevant Aβ(1–42).