Alzheimer's disease-causing proline substitutions lead to presenilin 1 aggregation and malfunction.

ABSTRACT: Do different neurodegenerative maladies emanate from the failure of a mutual protein folding mechanism? We have addressed this question by comparing mutational patterns that are linked to the manifestation of distinct neurodegenerative disorders and identified similar neurodegeneration-linked proline substitutions in the prion protein and in presenilin 1 that underlie the development of a prion disorder and of familial Alzheimer's disease (fAD), respectively. These substitutions were found to prevent the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident chaperone, cyclophilin B, from assisting presenilin 1 to fold properly, leading to its aggregation, deposition in the ER, reduction of γ-secretase activity, and impaired mitochondrial distribution and function. Similarly, reduced quantities of the proces

SUBMITTER: Ben-Gedalya T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4682640 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature