Amyloid-β disrupts APP-regulated protein aggregation and dissociation from recycling endosomal membranes.

ABSTRACT: Secretory proteins aggregate into non-soluble dense-core granules in recycling endosome-like compartments prior to regulated release. By contrast, aberrantly processed, secreted amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides derived from amyloid precursor protein (APP) form pathological extracellular amyloidogenic aggregations in late-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). By examining living Drosophila prostate-like secondary cells, we show that both APP and Aβ peptides affect normal biogenesis of dense-core granules. These cells generate dense-core granules and secreted nanovesicles called Rab11-exosomes via evolutionarily conserved mechanisms within highly enlarged secretory compartments with recycling endosomal identity. The fly APP homologue, APP-like (APPL), associates with these vesicles and the compartmental li

SUBMITTER: Singh PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12361456 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature