title: Overproduction, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of human Fe65-PTB2 in complex with the amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain.
abstract: Alzheimer's disease is associated with typical brain deposits (senile plaques) that mainly contain the neurotoxic amyloid beta peptide. This peptide results from proteolytic processing of the type I transmembrane protein amyloid precursor protein (APP). During this proteolytic pathway the APP intracellular domain (AICD) is released into the cytosol, where it associates with various adaptor proteins. The interaction of the AICD with the C-terminal phosphotyrosine-binding domain of Fe65 (Fe65-PTB2) regulates APP translocation, signalling and processing. Human AICD and Fe65-PTB2 have been cloned, overproduced and purified in large amounts in Escherichia coli. A complex of Fe65-PTB2 with the C-terminal 32 amino acids of the AICD gave well diffracting hexagonal crystals and data have been collected to 2.1 A resolution. Initial phases obtained by the molecular-replacement method are of good quality and revealed well defined electron density for the substrate peptide.
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center, INF328, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Radzimanowski
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beyreuther
authors.forename: Irmgard
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sinning
authors.forename: Klemens
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wild
mesh_terms: D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000378:metabolism*; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006801:Humans; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D019000:Phosphotyrosine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C091042:APBB1 protein, human; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D019000:Phosphotyrosine