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- Title
TMP21 is a presenilin complex component that modulates γ-secretase but not ɛ-secretase activity.
- Authors
Fusheng Chen; Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Schmitt-Ulms, Gerold; Kawarai, Toshitaka; Bohm, Christopher; Katayama, Taiichi; Yongjun Gu; Sanjo, Nobuo; Glista, Michael; Rogaeva, Ekaterina; Wakutani, Yosuke; Pardossi-Piquard, Raphaëlle; Xueying Ruan; Tandon, Anurag; Checler, Frédéric; Marambaud, Philippe; Hansen, Kirk; Westaway, David; St. George-Hyslop, Peter; Fraser, Paul
- Abstract
The presenilin proteins (PS1 and PS2) and their interacting partners nicastrin, aph-1 (refs 4, 5) and pen-2 (ref. 5) form a series of high-molecular-mass, membrane-bound protein complexes that are necessary for γ-secretase and ɛ-secretase cleavage of selected type 1 transmembrane proteins, including the amyloid precursor protein, Notch and cadherins. Modest cleavage activity can be generated by reconstituting these four proteins in yeast and Spodoptera frugiperda (sf9) cells. However, a critical but unanswered question about the biology of the presenilin complexes is how their activity is modulated in terms of substrate specificity and/or relative activities at the γ and ɛ sites. A corollary to this question is whether additional proteins in the presenilin complexes might subsume these putative regulatory functions. The hypothesis that additional proteins might exist in the presenilin complexes is supported by the fact that enzymatically active complexes have a mass that is much greater than predicted for a 1:1:1:1 stoichiometric complex (at least 650 kDa observed, compared with about 220 kDa predicted). To address these questions we undertook a search for presenilin-interacting proteins that differentially affected γ- and ɛ-site cleavage events. Here we report that TMP21, a member of the p24 cargo protein family, is a component of presenilin complexes and differentially regulates γ-secretase cleavage without affecting ɛ-secretase activity.
- Subjects
PRESENILINS; MEMBRANE proteins; CADHERINS; PROTEOMICS; MOLECULAR biology
- Publication
Nature, 2006, Vol 440, Issue 7088, p1208
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1038/nature04667