期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 103, 期 18, 页码 6889-6894出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0602321103
关键词
electron microscopy; image analysis; intramembrane protease
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [AG1537, R01 AG029979] Funding Source: Medline
gamma-Secretase is an intramembrane-cleaving aspartyl protease required for the normal development of metazoans because it processes Notch within cellular membranes to release its signaling domain. More than two dozen additional substrates of diverse functions have been reported, including the Notch ligands Delta and Jagged, N- and E-cadherins, and a sodium channel subunit. The protease is causally implicated in Alzheimer's disease because it releases the neurotoxic amyloid beta-peptide (A beta) from its precursor, APP. gamma-Secretase occurs as a large complex containing presenilin (bearing the active site aspartates), nicastrin, Aph-1, and Pen-2. Because the complex contains at least 18 transmembrane domains, crystallographic approaches to its structure are difficult and remote. We recently purified the human complex essentially to homogeneity from stably expressing mammalian cells. Here, we use EM and single-particle image analysis on the purified enzyme, which produces physiological ratios of A beta 40 and A beta 42, to obtain structural information on an intramembrane protease. The 3D EM structure revealed a large, cylindrical interior chamber of similar to 20-40 A in length, consistent with a proteinaceous proteolytic site that is occluded from the hydrophobic environment of the lipid bilayer. Lectin tagging of the nicastrin ectodomain enabled proper orientation of the globular, similar to 120-angstrom-long complex within the membrane and revealed similar to 20-angstrom pores at the top and bottom that provide potential exit ports for cleavage products to the extra- and intracellular compartments. Our reconstructed 3D map provides a physical basis for hydrolysis of transmembrane substrates within a lipid bilayer and release of the products into distinct subcellular compartments.
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