The seven-transmembrane spanning topography of the Alzheimer disease-related presenilin proteins in the plasma membranes of cultured cells

AUTOR(ES)

Dewji, Nazneen N.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

To ascertain the membrane topography of the multi-transmembrane spanning presenilin proteins PS-1 and PS-2, anti-peptide antibodies were raised to several specific amino acid sequences in the two proteins, and, after their specificity was ascertained, the anti-peptide antibodies were used in immunofluorescent labeling of live PS-transfected, cultured DAMI cells, which are impermeable to the antibodies, as well as of their fixed and permeabilized counterparts. In such experiments, antibodies that specifically stain the intact live cells must label epitopes of the PS proteins that are on the exterior face of the plasma membrane whereas those antibodies that do not stain the live cells but do stain the fixed and permeabilized cells must label epitopes that face the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. The results obtained were entirely in accord with the predictions of the seven-transmembrane spanning topography (like that of rhodopsin and the β-adrenergic receptor) and were totally inconsistent with the expectations for either the six- or eight-transmembrane topographies that have been proposed.

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