title: Abnormal gel-electrophoretic behavior of presenilin 1 and it's fragment.
abstract: Presenilin 1 (PS-1) is the main causal gene of familial Alzheimer's disease. In this report, we describe the abnormal behavior of PS-1 in gel electrophoresis in the presence of SDS. Freshly in vitro synthesized PS-1 was identified as a single molecule with the molecular size of 43,000 on SDS gels but was found to disappear after incubation at 37 degrees C for 24 hr due to the formation of aggregates. Intermediate aggregates with M(r) 74,000 and 100,000 were formed before the final aggregate which was retained at the top of the gel. Thus the amount of 43,000-protein species of PS-1 was found to decrease on gels with a concomitant increase in the amount of 74,000/100,000 proteins. Similar abnormality was seen in PS-1 expressed in COS cells transfected with PS-1 cDNA. Moreover, cellular PS-1 was strongly suggested to be cleaved into the fragments with M(r) approximately 20,000 in COS and CHO cells. Fragmentation of cellular PS-1 was not affected by the missense point mutation of Ala260Val on PS-1 which was identified in a pedigree with familial Alzheimer's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sahara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Usami
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okochi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kametani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yahagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirasawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itoyama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry*; D017354:Point Mutation; D053764:Presenilin-1; D011485:Protein Binding; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C508853:PSEN1 protein, human; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D053764:Presenilin-1