Aging-Related Pathology in Human Neuroblastoma and Teratocarcinoma Cell Lines

The microtubule associated protein called tau, found primarily in neurons, was detected in a human neuroblastoma cell line, LAN-5. Cells treated with retinoic acid (2.0 x 10(-5) M) differentiate and acquire processes similar to neurons. Differentiated and logarithmically growing undifferentiated cells were exposed to varying doses of doxorubicin (an anthracycline chemotherapeutic antibiotic). While doxorubicin was lethal to many undifferentiated dividing cells, it was not as damaging to differentiated cells. After 2 to 4 days of doxorubicin treatment, the cells were harvested, the protein concentration determined and SDS-PAGE performed. Proteins were blotted onto nitrocellulose paper and immunostained with either a rabbit antiserum or mouse monoclonal antibody to tau. Undifferentiated LAN-5 cells treated with 4.0 x 10(-8) M doxorubicin for 4 days and cells treated with 8.0 x 10(-8) M doxorubicin for 2 days displayed a distinct lower band (just below the 50 kd marker) that was either absent or very faint in untreated controls.

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Evidence for lysosomal processing of amyloid ?-protein precursor in cultured cells

Cole

1989

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Amyloid beta-protein precursor (ABPP) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a family of proteins which includes the parent protein which generates a small (4 kD) fragment that self-assembles to form amyloid fibrils in AD. Thus, the normal and abnormal proteolysis of ABPP may be directly relevant to AD pathogenesis. We have examined the accumulation of ABPP in cultured rodent and human neuronal cell lines in the presence and absence of a battery of protease inhibitors using immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis. Here we present evidence for a lysosomal pathway for the turnover of ABPP and discuss the relevance of these results to plaque pathology and abnormal ABPP immunostaining in AD.

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Aging-Related Pathology in Human Neuroblastoma and Teratocarcinoma Cell Lines

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Evidence for lysosomal processing of amyloid ?-protein precursor in cultured cells

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