The metabolism of human soluble amyloid precursor protein isoforms is quantifiable by a stable isotope labeling-tandem mass spectrometry method.

ABSTRACT: Evidence suggests that β-secretase (BACE1), which cleaves Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) to form sAPPβ and amyloid-β, is elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and biofluids and, thus, BACE1 is a therapeutic target for this devastating disease. The direct product of BACE1 cleavage of APP, sAPPβ, serves as a surrogate marker of BACE1 activity in the central nervous system. This biomarker could be utilized to better understand normal APP processing, aberrant processing in the disease setting, and modulations to processing during therapeutic intervention. In this paper, we present a method for measuring the metabolism of sAPPβ and another APP proteolytic product, sAPPα, in vivo in humans using stable isotope labeling kinetics, paired with immunoprecipitation and liquid chromatography/ta

SUBMITTER: Dobrowolska Zakaria JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9440206 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature