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Volume 17, Number 1,
Issue of January 1, 1997
pp. 140-151
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Trafficking of Cell-Surface -Amyloid Precursor Protein:
Evidence that a Sorting Intermediate Participates in Synaptic
Vesicle Recycling
Numa R. Marquez-Sterling1,
Amy C. Y. Lo2,
Sangram S. Sisodia2, and
Edward H. Koo3
1 Department of Pathology, Northwestern University
Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, 2 Department of
Pathology and the Neuropathology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, and
3 Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES
ABSTRACT
We recently demonstrated that the Alzheimer's -amyloid
precursor protein (APP) is internalized from the axonal cell surface. In this study, we use biochemical and cell biological methods to
characterize endocytotic compartments that participate in trafficking of APP in central neurons. APP is present in presynaptic
clathrin-coated vesicles purified from bovine brain, together with the
recycling synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins synaptophysin,
synaptotagmin, and SV2. In contrast, APP is largely excluded from
synaptic vesicles purified from rat brain. In primary cerebellar
macroneurons, cell-surface APP is internalized with recycling synaptic
vesicle integral membrane proteins but is subsequently sorted away from
synaptic vesicles and transported retrogradely to the neuronal soma.
Internalized APP partially co-localizes with rab5a-containing
compartments in axons and with V-ATPase-containing compartments in both
axons and neuronal soma. These results provide direct biochemical
evidence that an obligate sorting compartment participates in the
regeneration of synaptic vesicles during exo/endocytotic recycling at
nerve terminals but do not preclude concurrent "kiss-and-run"
recycling. Moreover, APP is now, to our knowledge, the first
demonstrated example of an axonal cell-surface protein that is
internalized with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins but is
subsequently sorted away from synaptic vesicles.
Key words:
Alzheimer's disease;
amyloid precursor;
axons;
cell
surface;
cerebellar macroneurons;
clathrin-coated vesicles;
endocytosis;
protein trafficking;
synaptic vesicle recycling
INTRODUCTION
An invariant feature in the cerebral cortex of
patients with Alzheimer's disease is the extraneuronal deposition of
the -amyloid peptide (A ), derived by proteolytic processing from
type I transmembrane glycoproteins, called -amyloid precursor
protein or APP (Kang et al., 1987 ). APP exists as three principal
isoforms derived by alternative splicing; predominant expression of the
695 amino acid residue isoform is seen in neurons (Sisodia et al.,
1993 ). Constitutive -secretase processing of APP results in the
release of a 100-110 kDa soluble N-terminal fragment, with membrane
retention of a 10 kDa C-terminal fragment (Sisodia et al., 1990 ).
Cleavage by -secretase occurs within the A sequence and thereby
precludes the formation of intact A (Wang et al., 1991 ). Data from
in vitro studies suggest that the -secretase pathway may
be used to only a limited extent by neural cells (Hung et al.,
1992 ).
In addition to processing by the secretory pathway, APP is processed by
internalization from the cell surface, apparently by receptor-mediated
endocytosis (Haass et al., 1992 ; Koo and Squazzo, 1994 ; Yamazaki et
al., 1996 ). Several lines of evidence, derived largely from
non-neuronal systems, suggest that the APP internalization pathway
contributes to the production and extracellular release of A . First,
a portion of the internalized APP is delivered to the degradative late
endosomal-lysosomal compartment, where a series of potentially
amyloidogenic fragments (i.e., contain the entire A sequence) can be
detected (Golde et al., 1992 ; Haass et al., 1992 ). Second, cell-surface
APP is a precursor to A that is constitutively secreted by cultured
cells, and cells that express internalization-deficient,
C-terminal-deleted APP secrete significantly less A than cells that
express full-length protein (Koo and Squazzo, 1994 ).
Fig. 1.
Distribution of APP in clathrin-coated vesicles
from bovine brain. Clathrin-coated vesicles (CCV) were
purified from homogenates of cerebral cortex
(whole-brain), unless otherwise indicated, and incubated
with low-ionic strength buffer to dissociate clathrin coats before
analysis by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting (20 µg protein/gel lane).
Position and relative mass (in kilodaltons) of protein standards are
indicated. A, Mature, full-length APP
(APP, inset) is present in whole-brain
clathrin-coated vesicles, together with the recycling synaptic vesicle
integral membrane proteins SV2 (SV2), synaptotagmin I
(p65), and synaptophysin
(p38). APP reactivity can be eliminated when
anti-APP is applied together with its cognate peptide
(APP+pep, inset). H-2,
Murine H-2 complex cell-surface antigen (negative control);
V-ATPase, 70 kDa subunit of vacuolar ATPase from bovine
brain (positive control). Laemmli gel, 4-20% (inset,
6%). B, Rab5a (rab5a,
arrow) is present in whole-brain clathrin-coated
vesicles, but neither rab3a (rab3a) nor rab8
(rab8) can be detected. Rab5a reactivity can be
eliminated when anti-rab5a is applied together with its cognate peptide
(rab5a+pep). Laemmli gel, 15%. C, To
demonstrate definitively that APP is present in the presynaptic
subpopulation, clathrin-coated vesicles were additionally purified from
hypotonically lysed synaptosomes (synaptosomal). Full-length APP (APP) is present in whole-brain and
synaptosomal clathrin-coated vesicles. Transferrin receptor
(Tf-R) can only be detected in whole-brain
clathrin-coated vesicles (arrow). Laemmli gel, 6%.
D, To demonstrate that APP and recycling synaptic
vesicle integral membrane proteins are present in the same
subpopulation of clathrin-coated vesicles, whole-brain clathrin-coated
vesicles were immunoprecipitated with antibody directed to the
cytoplasmic tail of APP (CT15), resuspended, and
analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting for synaptophysin (top
panel). Synaptophysin (p38, arrow) is readily detected when CT15 is used but cannot
be detected when antibody directed to the midregion of the
extracellular domain of APP (863) or nonimmune IgG
(rIgG), respectively, is used. The membrane was
subsequently stripped and reprobed for APP (bottom panel) to demonstrate that immunoprecipitation with CT15
selectively enriches for APP-containing clathrin-coated vesicles
(APP, arrow). Laemmli gel,
12%.
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Fig. 2.
Distribution of APP in synaptic vesicles
immunoisolated from rat brain synaptosomal lysates (S3).
Control (MIgG) or anti-synaptophysin-coated magnetic
beads were used for immunoisolation. 2×, Twice the
amount of control or anti-synaptophysin beads used relative to
1×. After separation with a magnetic rack, equal
amounts of immunobeads (p) and supernatant
(s) fractions were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. The membrane was incubated with anti-synaptophysin to
detect synaptic vesicles, then stripped and reprobed with CT15 to
detect APP. APP (APP) is not detected in the immunobeads
fraction using either amount of anti-synaptophysin beads. No
synaptophysin-reactive material (p38) is detected
in the immunobeads fraction when control beads are used. Laemmli gel,
8%.
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Fig. 3.
Distribution of APP in synaptic vesicles purified
from rat brain by differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation as
described by Huttner et al. (1983) . Gradient fractions were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. Anti-synaptophysin was applied first to
detect synaptic vesicles. The membrane was subsequently stripped and
reprobed for APP. Synaptophysin (p38) reactivity
peaks at gradient fractions 3-5 (250-350 mM sucrose),
whereas APP (APP) reactivity peaks at fraction 10 (>700
mM sucrose) at the bottom of the gradient. Laemmli gel,
8%.
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Fig. 4.
Immature cerebellar macroneuron (day 6)
fluorescently labeled for total cellular APP using antibody 5A3,1G7.
The somatodendritic domain and proximal axonal shaft are shown in
a, and the distal axonal shaft and growth cone of the
same neuron are shown in b. Diffuse, punctate
immunoreactivity for APP is observed in the somatodendritic and axonal
domains, including the axonal growth cone and growth cone filopodia,
several of which are indicated (arrowheads).
Juxtanuclear enrichment of APP reactivity is observed in the neuronal
soma. N, Nuclear region. Scale bar, 10 µm.
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Fig. 5.
Mature cerebellar macroneurons (day 14)
fluorescently labeled for internalized APP (a,
c) and either total cellular clathrin (b)
or total cellular rab5a (d). Partial co-localization of
internalized APP and clathrin or rab5a is observed in axons
(arrowheads). Stronger co-localization for rab5a is
observed. Scale bars, 10 µm.
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Fig. 6.
Mature cerebellar macroneurons (day 14)
fluorescently labeled for internalized APP (a,
c) and total cellular V-ATPase (b, d), the enzyme principally involved in maintaining an
acidic luminal state in intracellular compartments. Two adjacent distal
axonal segments (including small growth cones) are shown in
a and b. Partial co-localization of
internalized APP and V-ATPase is observed in axons and neuronal soma
(arrowheads). Scale bars, 10 µm.
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Fig. 7.
Immature cerebellar macroneurons (day 4)
fluorescently labeled to detect recycling synaptic vesicle membrane
proteins and either total cellular or internalized APP. Cells were
incubated with anti-synaptotagmin I as a marker for recycling synaptic
vesicle membrane proteins, then fixed, permeabilized, and labeled with 5A3,1G7. Partial co-localization of total cellular APP
(a, c) and internalized synaptotagmin
(b, d) is observed in axons
(a-d, arrowheads; iv
indicates four puncta of co-localization in an axonal growth cone).
Juxtanuclear reactivity for internalized synaptotagmin is also present,
as observed previously in hippocampal neurons (Matteoli et al., 1992 ).
Additionally, cells were incubated simultaneously with
anti-synaptotagmin and 5A3,1G7 to detect internalized synaptotagmin
(f) and internalized APP
(e). Strong, partial co-localization of internalized APP
and internalized synaptotagmin is observed in distal axons and is
particularly evident in axonal growth cones (e,
f, arrowheads). Scale bars, 10 µm.
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Fig. 8.
Mature cerebellar macroneurons (day 14)
fluorescently labeled for internalized APP (a,
c) and internalized synaptotagmin (b, d). Strong, partial co-localization of internalized APP
and internalized synaptotagmin is observed in axonal varicosities
(arrowheads in a, b; two
intersecting axonal segments are shown). In contrast, no
co-distribution of internalized APP and internalized synaptotagmin is
observed in neuronal soma (starred arrowheads in
d indicate site of selected puncta of internalized APP
marked by arrowheads in c). In neuronal
soma, internalized synaptotagmin is largely juxtanuclear, whereas
internalized APP is diffusely distributed. n, Nuclear
region; ax, axonal segments. Scales bars, 10 µm.
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Fig. 9.
Mature cerebellar macroneurons (day 14)
fluorescently labeled for internalized APP (a,
c) and internalized WGA (b,
d). No co-distribution of internalized APP and
internalized WGA is observed in axons (starred
arrowheads in b indicate site of selected puncta of internalized APP marked by arrowheads in
a) or in neuronal soma (starred
arrowheads in d indicate site of selected puncta of internalized APP marked by arrowheads in
c). Scale bars, 10 µm.
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Fig. 10.
Proposed model for endocytotic trafficking of APP
in central neurons (see Discussion for additional details). Full-length APP is internalized from the presynaptic plasmalemma via
clathrin-coated vesicles, together with recycling synaptic vesicle
integral membrane proteins. Presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles
deliver internalized APP and recycling synaptic vesicle membrane
proteins to axonal early endosomes, where sorting takes place.
Internalized APP is subsequently delivered by retrograde vesicular
transport to the neuronal soma. APP does not appear to use the
WGA/lectin internalization pathway for retrograde transport to the
neuronal soma, but it is not clear whether APP and lectins (bound to
cell-surface glycoproteins) are internalized initially via a common
pool of clathrin-coated vesicles. , APP;
, synaptotagmin I; ,
cell-surface glycoproteins; , lectins; ,
clathrin triskelions; + and ends of axonal microtubules are indicated.
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It is not known whether APP internalization by central neurons results
in increased secretion of A and, hence, contributes to cerebral
amyloid burden and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. To address
this issue, we have chosen to study endocytotic trafficking of
full-length, cell-surface APP in neurons. In previous studies (Yamazaki
et al., 1995 ), we demonstrated that neuronal APP is internalized
selectively from the axonal cell surface and delivered by retrograde
transport to the neuronal soma, where a portion is sorted
transcytotically to the somatic cell surface. Transcytotic sorting
to the somatic cell surface has been confirmed in other studies (Simons
et al., 1995 ). In the present study, we use biochemical and cell
biological methods to characterize endocytotic compartments that
participate in neuronal APP trafficking. We demonstrate that APP is
endocytosed together with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins
but is subsequently sorted away from synaptic vesicles for retrograde
transport to neuronal soma. We discuss the implications of our data to
the synaptic vesicle exo/endocytotic cycle and present a model for
trafficking of cell-surface APP in central neurons.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies 5A3 and 1G7 (Koo
and Squazzo, 1994 ) recognize nonoverlapping epitopes in the midregion
of APP and were used in combination (designated 5A3,1G7) for APP trafficking studies (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ). Polyclonal antibody CT15
recognizes the 15 C-terminal residues in the cytoplasmic tail of APP
(Sisodia et al., 1993 ). 5A3,1G7 and CT15 are specific for APP and do
not cross-react with the related protein APLP-2 (see Slunt et al.,
1994 ). Polyclonal antibody 863 was generated against a bacterial fusion
protein encompassing ~280 amino acid residues in the midregion of APP
(from XhoI to BglII restriction sites); the
transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains are excluded from this construct.
Polyclonal antibody Sytlum-Abs (Matteoli et al., 1992 ) (a
gift from Dr. P. De Camilli) recognizes the small intraluminal domain
of rat synaptotagmin I. Monoclonal anti-synaptotagmin I (gift from Dr.
R. Jahn) recognizes the large cytoplasmic domain of synaptotagmin I. Additional monoclonal antibodies include anti-clathrin heavy chain
(clone X22, a gift from Dr. F. Brodsky), anti-SV2 (a gift from Dr. K. Buckley), anti-transferrin receptor (a gift from Dr. I. Trowbridge),
anti-70 kDa subunit of V-ATPase from bovine brain (clone 3.2-F1, a gift
from Dr. M. Forgac), anti-murine H-2 complex cell-surface antigen (a
gift from Dr. R. Melvold), anti-synaptophysin (clone SY38, Boehringer
Mannheim, Indianapolis, IN), anti-MAP-2 (clone HM-2, Sigma, St. Louis,
MO), and anti- -tubulin (clone DM-1A, Sigma). Polyclonal antibodies
to the 70 and 60 kDa subunits of V-ATPase were obtained from Dr. B. Bowman. Antibodies to rab3a, 5a, and 8 were purchased from Santa Cruz
Biotech (Santa Cruz, CA).
Cell culture. Primary cerebellar macroneurons were prepared
from embryonic day 14 rat using the protocol described for hippocampal neurons by Goslin and Banker (1991) . Briefly, cells from the dissected cerebellar anlage (Altman and Bayer, 1978 , 1985 ) were dissociated by
trypsinization (15 min at 37°C) followed by trituration with flame-polished Pasteur pipettes. The cells were plated at a density of
150,000 or 450,000 per 60 mm tissue culture dish on polylysine-coated (1 mg/ml) glass coverslips in MEM supplemented with 10% horse serum.
After 3-4 hr to allow attachment of neurons, the coverslips were
transferred to tissue culture dishes containing glial cell monolayers
and serum-free neuronal medium consisting of MEM containing the N2
supplements of Bottenstein and Sato (1979) , 0.1% ovalbumin, and 0.01%
pyruvate. Glial cultures for conditioning of neuronal medium were
prepared as described by Goslin and Banker (1991) .
Immature cerebellar macroneurons were typically used at day 4 in
culture (day 0 = day that cultures are prepared); no difference in
APP distribution was seen between days 4 and 6 in culture. Mature
cerebellar macroneurons were used at day 14 in culture. Polarity for
the somatodendritic marker MAP-2 (Caceres et al., 1986 ) was established
at day 5-6 in culture.
Preparation of vesicular fractions from bovine brain.
Clathrin-coated vesicles were prepared from homogenates of bovine
cerebral cortex (designated "whole-brain coated vesicles") by
differential centrifugation followed by equilibrium centrifugation in
linear Ficoll/D2O gradients as described by Forgac and
Cantley (1984) . Whole-brain and synaptosomal (see below) coated
vesicles were incubated with low-ionic-strength buffer containing 5 mM Tris, pH 8.5, 150 mM sucrose, and 0.5 mM EGTA to dissociate clathrin coats (designated
"stripped vesicles"), as described (Forgac and Cantley, 1984 )
before analysis by SDS-PAGE.
Clathrin-coated vesicles were additionally purified from hypotonically
lysed synaptosomes (designated "synaptosomal coated vesicles")
using the Maycox et al. (1992) protocol adapted for bovine brain.
Briefly, synaptosomes were prepared from cerebral cortical tissue
(obtained from whole calf brains) by differential centrifugation
followed by Ficoll gradient centrifugation, washed with tartrate buffer
to remove bound vesicular material, and lysed by hypotonic shock. The
synaptosomal lysate was quickly returned to isotonicity by the addition
of 1/10 volume of 10× buffer A (Forgac and Berne, 1986 ) and
subfractionated by equilibrium centrifugation in linear
Ficoll/D2O gradients as described (Forgac and Cantley, 1984 ). Synaptosomal clathrin-coated vesicles were collected as a small
but distinct band from the linear gradients, resuspended in buffer A,
homogenized with a Dounce glass-glass homogenizer, and snap-frozen for
storage at 80°C.
Immunoprecipitation of whole-brain clathrin-coated vesicles with
polyclonal antibody CT15 (directed to the cytoplasmic tail of APP) was
carried out as follows. Clathrin coats were dissociated as described
above, and the resulting stripped vesicles (0.4 mg total protein) were
diluted with Tris-saline buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 8.0, 140 mM NaCl) containing 5 mg/ml BSA to a final volume of 0.5 ml. Stripped vesicles were precleared for 1 hr at 4°C using 30 µl
of a 50:50 slurry of protein A-Sepharose (Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) in Tris-saline/BSA and incubated with polyclonal antibody CT15 overnight at 4°C using end-to-end rotation. Overnight incubation with an equivalent amount of polyclonal antibody 863 (directed to the midregion of the extracellular domain of APP) or
nonimmune rabbit IgG was used as a negative control. A second aliquot
(30 µl) of protein A-Sepharose was added, and the incubation was
continued for an additional 2 hr. The immunobeads fraction was obtained
by sedimentation, washed five times with Tris-saline/BSA, resuspended
in Laemmli (1970) sample buffer, and heated at 85°C for 10 min to
dissociate bound proteins. One-half of the resuspended immunobeads
fraction was used for analysis by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting.
Preparation of vesicular fractions from rat brain. Rat brain
synaptosomes were prepared using the following protocol provided by R. Jahn (personal communication). The cerebral hemispheres from one adult
rat brain were homogenized in ice-cold buffer (0.32 M
sucrose, 5 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 1 mM EDTA,
containing freshly added 0.5 mM PMSF, 10 µg/ml aprotinin,
and 5 µg/ml each leupeptin and pepstatin A) using a glass/Teflon
homogenizer (10 strokes at 600 rpm). Remaining steps were carried out
at 4°C. The homogenate was centrifuged at 800 × g
for 10 min, and the resulting supernatant was centrifuged at
11,000 × g for 12 min. The pellet fraction from the
11,000 × g centrifugation step was resuspended in 4 ml of homogenization buffer and layered onto discontinuous Ficoll gradients (3 ml of 13% Ficoll, 0.75 ml of 9% Ficoll, and 3 ml of 6%
Ficoll in homogenization buffer). The Ficoll gradients were centrifuged
for 30 min at 65,000 × g (23,000 rpm) in a TH641
rotor. After centrifugation, synaptosomes were collected by pooling the bands present at the 6-9% and 9-12% Ficoll interfaces.
Biochemical purification of synaptic vesicles was carried out using the
protocol described by Huttner et al. (1983) with minor modifications.
The cerebral hemispheres from two adult rat brains were used. Ten
fractions were obtained from the linear sucrose gradients.
Controlled-pore glass chromatography was not performed.
Immunoisolation of synaptic vesicles with anti-synaptophysin beads was
carried out as follows. Crude synaptosomes (P2 fraction) obtained as
described (Huttner et al., 1983 ) were resuspended in ice-cold
homogenization buffer (see above) and lysed by hypotonic shock.
HEPES/NaOH was immediately added to a final concentration of 7.5 mM, pH 7.4, and the suspension was kept on ice for 30 min. NaCl (150 mM final concentration) was added to restore
isotonicity, and the lysate was cleared by centrifugation (11,000 × g for 12 min). The resulting supernatant (S3 fraction)
was used as the starting material for immunoisolation.
Anti-synaptophysin beads were prepared as follows. Magnetic beads
coated with sheep-anti-mouse IgG (Dynal, Great Neck, NY) were incubated
with monoclonal anti-synaptophysin (2 mg antibody/mg beads) in PBS
overnight at 4°C. The beads were washed three times and resuspended
in 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, and 1 mM EDTA (resuspension buffer). Anti-synaptophysin beads (2 mg of bound antibody) were incubated with the S3 fraction (0.5 mg total
protein) for 2 hr at 4°C with end-to-end rotation. After the
incubation, the beads were retrieved with a magnetic rack (Dynal),
washed three times for 10 min each with resuspension buffer, and
resuspended in Laemmli (1970) sample buffer. The supernatant from the
immunoisolation was centrifuged for 30 min at 97,000 rpm in an AT4
rotor, and the resultant pellet was resuspended in sample buffer.
Control beads were prepared by incubation with an equivalent amount of
nonimmune mouse IgG.
Immunocytochemistry. Antibodies 5A3,1G7 and
Sytlum-Abs were applied to the neuronal culture media for
60 min at 37°C to detect internalized APP and internalized
synaptotagmin I, respectively. Mouse or rabbit nonimmune IgG was
applied to the culture media (same concentration as used for 5A3,1G7)
as a negative internalization control. Rhodamine-conjugated wheat germ
agglutinin (WGA, Vector Labs, Burlingame, CA) was applied to the
culture media at 10 µg/ml. Goat serum (5%) was added to the culture
media to reduce background.
Cultured neurons were fixed for 10 min with 4% formaldehyde (prepared
freshly from paraformaldehyde powder) in PBS, pH 7.4, containing 0.12 M sucrose. All steps were carried out at room temperature.
The cells were then washed with PBS, quenched with 0.1 M
glycine (in PBS), and permeabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100. To detect
APP confined to the cell surface, permeabilization with detergent was
omitted. Cytoskeletal proteins could not be detected without previous
permeabilization with Triton X-100, indicating that cell-surface APP
only was detected when detergent was omitted. After blocking with 5%
goat serum for 20 min, cells were incubated with additional primary
antibodies for 1 hr (where applicable), washed, and incubated with
fluorescein- or rhodamine-conjugated secondary antibodies (Boehringer
Mannheim). For double-labeling with two monoclonal primary antibodies,
the antibodies were applied sequentially and the first antibody was
visualized using a large excess of affinity-purified,
rhodamine-conjugated secondary antibody as the Fab fragment as
described (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ). For labeling of the Golgi
compartment, fixed, permeabilized cells were incubated for 1 hr with
fluorescein-conjugated lentil lectin (10 µg/ml, Vector Labs). Cells
were viewed with a Zeiss axiophot microscope equipped with
epifluorescence optics and photographed with T-MAX 400 film (Eastman
Kodak, Rochester, NY).
Other methods. SDS-PAGE was performed using the method of
Laemmli (1970) . Immunoblotting was performed as described by Towbin et
al. (1979) using an enhanced alkaline phosphatase detection kit
purchased from BioRad (Hercules, CA). For immunoblotting of subcellular
fractions from rat brain, an enhanced chemiluminescence kit purchased
from Amersham (Arlington Heights, IL) was used. For reprobing of
immunoblots, antibodies bound to the nitrocellulose membrane were
removed by stripping with 62.5 mM Tris, pH 6.8, 2% SDS,
and 100 mM -mercaptoethanol for 30 min at 70°C.
Membranes were rinsed twice in PBS then incubated with a second primary antibody. Protein concentration was determined using the method of
Bradford (1976) .
RESULTS
Full-length APP is present in presynaptic
clathrin-coated vesicles
Nerve terminal (presynaptic) clathrin-coated vesicles are felt to
participate in synaptic vesicle recycling (Mundigl and DeCamilli, 1994). APP has been shown previously to be enriched in clathrin-coated vesicles (Nordstedt et al., 1993 ), but it is not known whether the
protein is enriched in presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles. To determine whether APP is present selectively in the presynaptic subpopulation, coated vesicles were purified from homogenates of bovine
cerebral cortex by differential and equilibrium centrifugation as
described by Forgac and Cantley (1984) and immunoblotted for APP. The
Forgac and Cantley method yields a very homogeneous clathrin-coated vesicle population that is essentially devoid of synaptic vesicles. By
electron microscopy, >95% of vesicles obtained using this method are
coated, and virtually all of the clathrin coat assemblages actually
contain a membrane vesicle (Forgac and Cantley, 1984 ). In addition,
coated vesicles purified from homogenates of cerebral cortex
("whole-brain" coated vesicles) are highly enriched for the
presynaptic subpopulation, as demonstrated by Maycox et al. (1992) .
As predicted, immunoblotting of purified whole-brain coated vesicles
with polyclonal antibody CT15 directed to the cytoplasmic tail of APP
demonstrates the presence of full-length APP in this preparation (Fig.
1A, inset). Adsorption of CT15 with its
cognate peptide results in elimination of APP signal. In addition, the synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins synaptophysin,
synaptotagmin, and SV2 can be detected in this preparation (Fig.
1A). The small GTP-binding protein rab5a can also be
detected in this preparation, but rab3a and rab8 cannot be detected
(Fig. 1B). Adsorption of anti-rab5a with its cognate
peptide results in elimination of rab5a signal.
The precise fraction, albeit small, of whole-brain coated vesicles that
is derived from sites other than nerve terminals (e.g., neuronal soma
or glia) is not known. To demonstrate unequivocably that APP is present
in the presynaptic subpopulation, coated vesicles were additionally
purified by equilibrium centrifugation from hypotonic lysates of bovine
brain synaptosomes ("synaptosomal" coated vesicles) and
immunoblotted for APP. Full-length APP can be detected in synaptosomal
as well as whole-brain coated vesicles (Fig. 1C). In
contrast, transferrin receptor, an endocytotic marker for the
somatodendritic domain (Cameron et al., 1991 ), can only be detected in
whole-brain coated vesicles.
To demonstrate that APP and recycling synaptic vesicle integral
membrane proteins are endocytosed via a common pool of clathrin-coated vesicles, purified whole-brain coated vesicles were immunoprecipitated with polyclonal antibody CT15 (directed to the cytoplasmic tail of APP)
and immunoblotted for synaptophysin. Synaptophysin is readily detected
in coated vesicles immunoprecipitated with CT15 but cannot be detected
when an equivalent amount of polyclonal antibody 863 (directed to the
midregion of the extracellular domain of APP) or nonimmune IgG is used
(Fig. 1D, top panel). Reprobing for
APP (Fig. 1D, bottom panel)
demonstrates that immunoprecipitation with CT15 selectively enriches
for APP-containing coated vesicles.
APP is largely excluded from synaptic vesicles
The above results indicate that APP is enriched in
presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles. To determine whether APP is
specifically excluded from synaptic vesicles, the latter were purified
from rat cerebral cortex by magnetic bead immunoisolation and
immunoblotted for APP. Both APP and synaptic vesicles are selectively
enriched in synaptosomes prepared from rat cerebral cortex (data not
shown). Synaptosomes were then lysed by hypotonic shock and incubated with magnetic beads coated with anti-synaptophysin (anti-synaptophysin beads) (Fig. 2) to immunoisolate synaptic vesicles. After
immunoisolation, equal portions of immunobeads ("pellet") and
supernatant fractions were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting.
Approximately 25% of starting synaptophysin-reactive material is
recovered with the anti-synaptophysin beads and doubles when twice the
amount of beads is used (Fig. 2, top panel, compare lanes 6 and 8.). All of the APP immunoreactivity, however, remains in the
supernatant fraction (i.e., is not precipitated with the
anti-synaptophysin beads). No synaptophysin-reactive material is
recovered when nonimmune beads are used.
Synaptic vesicles were also purified from rat cerebral cortex using the
method of Huttner et al. (1983) . By immunoblotting with
anti-synaptophysin, synaptic vesicles are enriched in fractions 3-5
near the top of the gradient (Fig. 3). A second, smaller peak of
synaptophysin immunoreactivity is present in fraction 10 at the bottom
of the gradient. These results are comparable with those obtained by
Huttner et al. (1983) . In contrast, APP is enriched in fraction 10 at
the bottom of the gradient, consistent with its presence in denser
vesicular fractions, including presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles.
APP is internalized with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane
proteins then sorted away from synaptic vesicles in cerebellar
macroneurons
To identify compartments that participate in trafficking of
neuronal cell-surface APP, immunofluorescent labeling of primary cerebellar macroneurons with monoclonal antibodies 5A3,1G7 (Koo and
Squazzo, 1994 ; Yamazaki et al., 1995 ) that recognize the midregion of
the ectodomain of native APP was carried out. Antibodies 5A3,1G7 were
first applied to fixed, permeabilized immature macroneurons to detect
total cellular APP, which appears as diffuse puncta throughout the
somatodendritic and axonal domains (Fig. 4). Axonal growth cones and
growth cone filopodia are consistently labeled, as described in primary
hippocampal neurons (Ferreira et al., 1993 ), and neuronal soma reveal
prominent juxtanuclear labeling that corresponds to the Golgi region
fluorescently labeled using lentil lectin (data not shown), as
described previously (Caporaso et al., 1994 ). Next, the antibodies were
applied to fixed, nonpermeabilized immature macroneurons to detect
cell-surface APP, which has a more limited distribution. Axons are
consistently labeled, with signal confined to concentrated patches,
whereas minor neurites/dendrites are only rarely labeled (data not
shown). These results fully confirm our earlier observation in
hippocampal neurons that cell-surface APP exhibits a polarized
distribution in neuritic processes (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ).
Antibodies 5A3,1G7 were then added to the macroneuronal culture medium
for 60 min at 37°C, and the cells were subsequently fixed,
permeabilized, and incubated with fluorescent secondary antibody to
detect APP internalized from the neuronal cell surface. Incubation with
antibodies directed to the ectodomain of APP has been used successfully
in both neuronal (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ) and non-neuronal (Haass et
al., 1992 ; Koo and Squazzo, 1994 ; Koo et al., 1996 ) cells to detect APP
internalized from the cell surface. This approach does not result in
redirection of internalized APP (Haass et al., 1992 ; Koo and Squazzo,
1994 ; Koo et al., 1996 ). Antibodies 5A3,1G7 are not internalized by
fluid-phase (adsorptive) endocytosis and do not effect nonphysiological
internalization of APP molecules via cross-linking at the cell surface
(Yamazaki et al., 1995 ). Similarly, incubation with nonimmune IgG at
the same concentration used for 5A3,1G7 is uniformly negative (data not
shown). In mature macroneurons, punctate immunoreactivity for
internalized APP is detected segmentally in axons and is particularly evident in axonal varicosities (Fig. 5). Diffusely scattered punctate immunoreactivity is also detected in neuronal soma (see below). Partial
co-localization is observed for rab5a and internalized APP in axon
segments (Fig. 5c,d), consistent with the
presence of APP in early endosomal compartments of the axonal domain
(de Hoop et al., 1994 ). Partial co-localization is also observed for clathrin and internalized APP (Fig. 5a,b) but to
a lesser extent than seen for rab5a. No co-localization of internalized
APP and either rab5a or clathrin is observed in the somatodendritic
domain (data not shown). Partial co-localization of V-ATPase and
internalized APP is observed in both the axonal and somatodendritic
domains (Fig. 6).
To confirm our finding that cell-surface APP is internalized together
with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins (see first part of
Results), polyclonal antibody Sytlum-Abs (Matteoli et al., 1992 ) , which recognizes the intraluminal domain of
the synaptic vesicle integral membrane protein synaptotagmin I (Perin et al., 1991 ), was added to the macroneuronal culture medium for 60 min
at 37°C. The intraluminal domain of synaptotagmin is exposed at the
cell surface during fusion of synaptic vesicles with the presynaptic
plasma membrane and is thus available to bind
Sytlum-Abs from the neuronal culture medium.
Internalization of Sytlum-Abs has been used previously to
detect recycling synaptic vesicles in hippocampal neurons (Matteoli et
al., 1992 ; Mundigl et al., 1993 ). In immature macroneurons,
internalized synaptotagmin appears as scattered puncta in axons,
including axonal growth cones (Fig. 7b,d,f). Partial
co-localization is seen for internalized synaptotagmin and total
cellular APP (Fig. 7a-d). When both 5A3,1G7 and
Sytlum-Abs are added to the culture medium to detect
internalized APP and internalized synaptotagmin, respectively, strong,
partial co-localization is seen in distal axons and is particularly
evident in expanded axonal growth cones (Fig.
7e,f). In expanded axonal growth
cones of immature macroneurons, ~50% of internalized APP
co-localizes with internalized synaptotagmin. In mature macroneurons,
strong, partial co-localization of internalized APP and internalized
synaptotagmin is observed in axon segments and is again particularly
evident in axonal varicosities (Fig.
8a,b), where ~70% co-localization of
internalized APP with internalized synaptotagmin is observed. In
contrast, internalized APP and internalized synaptotagmin are not
co-distributed in macroneuronal soma (essentially 0% co-localization of internalized APP with internalized synaptotagmin) (Fig.
8c,d). Internalized synaptotagmin is
largely juxtanuclear, whereas internalized APP is diffusely scattered.
Juxtanuclear immunoreactivity, in addition to punctate
immunoreactivity in axons, was observed previously in immature and
mature hippocampal neurons with Sytlum-Abs (Matteoli et
al., 1992 ).
To determine whether neuronal cell-surface APP and lectins (bound to
cell-surface glycoproteins) use a common internalization pathway, WGA
was added to the macroneuronal culture medium for 60 min at 37°C.
Internalized WGA appears as diffuse, strong puncta and includes large
vesicular profiles in the axonal and somatodendritic domains of
immature (data not shown) and mature (Fig.
9b,d) neurons. When both WGA and 5A3,1G7
are added to the culture medium, no co-distribution of internalized
lectin and internalized APP is observed either in axons or in neuronal
soma.
DISCUSSION
We reported previously (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ) that full-length
APP is internalized from the axonal cell surface and transported retrogradely to the neuronal soma. In the present study, we use biochemical and cell biological methods to characterize endocytotic compartments that participate in neuronal APP trafficking. We demonstrate that APP is present in presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles
purified from bovine brain, together with recycling synaptic vesicle
membrane proteins. However, APP is largely excluded from synaptic
vesicles purified from rat brain. In primary cerebellar macroneurons,
cell-surface APP is internalized with recycling synaptic vesicle
membrane proteins but is subsequently sorted away from synaptic
vesicles for retrograde transport to neuronal soma. Internalized APP
partially co-localizes with rab5a-containing compartments in axons and
with V-ATPase-containing compartments in both axons and neuronal
soma.
Neurons are believed to maintain distinct subpopulations of
clathrin-coated vesicles and early endosomes in their axonal and somatodendritic domains (Parton and Dotti, 1993 ). In this view, axonal
(largely presynaptic) coated vesicles and early endosomes participate
primarily in synaptic vesicle recycling. We demonstrate that
full-length APP is endocytosed via presynaptic coated vesicles, together with the recycling synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins
synaptophysin, synaptotagmin, and SV2. Previous reports that APP is
enriched in clathrin-coated vesicles (Ferreira et al., 1993 ; Nordstedt
et al., 1993 ; Sapirstein et al., 1994 ) did not conclusively demonstrate
that the full-length protein is present in the presynaptic coated
vesicle subpopulation. We also demonstrate that APP is not enriched in
synaptic vesicle fractions obtained by sucrose gradient centrifugation
(Huttner et al., 1983 ) or in synaptic vesicles immunoisolated with
anti-synaptophysin beads. These findings indicate that although APP is
transported anterogradely to distal axonal sites (Koo et al., 1990 ;
Sisodia et al., 1993 ), it is largely excluded from synaptic vesicles at
nerve terminals. The small peak of APP immunoreactivity observed in
sucrose gradient fractions 4-5 (i.e., peak synaptic vesicle fractions)
originates largely from presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles that were
stripped of their clathrin coats ("stripped vesicles") during
hypotonic lysis of synaptosomes. Stripped vesicles are similar in
buoyant density to synaptic vesicles and co-migrate with the latter
during sucrose gradient centrifugation (see Huttner et al., 1983 ).
Similarly, the small peak of synaptophysin immunoreactivity in fraction
10 (bottom of the gradient) originates largely from intact
(nonstripped) presynaptic coated vesicles. Notably, the bulk of APP
immunoreactivity is present in this fraction.
We demonstrate further that full-length APP is endocytosed together
with recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins in primary cerebellar
macroneurons but is subsequently sorted away from synaptic vesicles.
Endocytosis of APP and recycling synaptic vesicle membrane proteins
occurs predominantly from nerve terminals, as is evident in axonal
growth cones in immature neurons and in axonal varicosities (Fletcher
et al., 1991 ) in mature neurons. The distribution of endocytosed APP in
clathrin- or rab5a-containing compartments in axons suggests that APP
is probably delivered from presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles to
axonal early endosomes. After sorting, APP is apparently transported
retrogradely to neuronal soma, consistent with our findings in
hippocampal neurons (Yamazaki et al., 1995 ). Endocytosed APP and
WGA/lectins (Trojanowski and Gonatas, 1983 ) do not appear to use a
common compartment for retrograde transport to neuronal soma, but it is
not clear from our data whether APP and WGA are internalized initially
via a common pool of clathrin-coated vesicles. No co-distribution of
internalized Sytlum-Abs and internalized WGA was detected
previously in hippocampal neurons (Matteoli et al., 1992 ), consistent
with our observations. In future studies, confirmation of our
immunofluorescence findings, particularly our finding that recycling
synaptic vesicle membrane proteins and endocytosed APP co-localize in
axons, will be obtained by quantitative immunoelectron microscopy.
Currently, we are preparing adenoviral expression vectors for human APP
to facilitate future trafficking studies using cultured neurons. Our
finding that endocytosed APP is apparently delivered, at least in part,
to potentially acidic, V-ATPase-containing compartments will also be
explored in future studies using transiently transfected cultured
neurons. This last finding raises the possibility that vacuolar
acidification participates in sorting or proteolytic processing of APP
endocytosed from the neuronal cell surface (see Myers and Forgac,
1993 ). Selective V-ATPase inhibitors (e.g., bafilomycin A1) have been
shown to affect proteolytic processing of wild-type and mutant APP
isoforms in non-neuronal cells (Haass et al., 1995 ; Perez et al.,
1996 ).
Our results provide additional biochemical evidence that an obligate
sorting compartment, presumably the axonal early endosome, participates
in the regeneration of synaptic vesicles during exo/endocytotic recycling at nerve terminals (see Mundigl and DeCamilli, 1994). Biochemical evidence for a sorting endosomal intermediate in the synaptic vesicle recycling pathway also derives from the finding by
Fischer von Mollard et al. (1994) that the early endosomal marker rab5a
is present in a subpopulation of synaptic vesicles purified from rat
brain. However, our results do not preclude concurrent
"kiss-and-run" recycling (Fesce et al., 1994 ), whereby synaptic
vesicles deliver their contents via transient fusion pores. Moreover,
APP is now, to our knowledge, the first demonstrated example of an
integral plasmalemmal protein that is internalized with recycling
synaptic vesicle membrane proteins but is subsequently sorted away from
synaptic vesicles. Two other plasmalemmal proteins, namely SNAP-25 and
syntaxin I, are enriched in presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles and
thus appear to also recycle with synaptic vesicle membrane proteins
(Walch-Solimena et al., 1995 ). However, SNAP-25 and syntaxin I are
components of the synaptic vesicle exocytotic fusion apparatus (Sudhof,
1995 ) and are also enriched in synaptic vesicles (Walch-Solimena et
al., 1995 ). APP, despite its enrichment in presynaptic clathrin-coated
vesicles, is apparently neither a synaptic vesicle protein nor a known
component of the synaptic vesicle exocytotic fusion apparatus. Other
axonal cell-surface proteins besides APP, such as neurotrophin
receptors (Ehlers et al., 1995 ), may use a similar pathway for
retrograde transport to neuronal soma. Endocytosis from the presynaptic
plasmalemma via a common pool of clathrin-coated vesicles, followed by
sorting away from synaptic vesicles, may actually represent the
principal route for internalization and retrograde transport of axonal
cell-surface receptors, but this remains an interesting
speculation.
On the basis of these as well as previous (Yamazaki et al., 1995 )
studies, we propose the following model for endocytotic trafficking of
APP in central neurons (Fig. 10). Full-length APP and recycling
synaptic vesicle integral membrane proteins are internalized together
from the presynaptic plasmalemma via clathrin-coated vesicles.
Presynaptic clathrin-coated vesicles deliver APP and recycling synaptic
vesicle membrane proteins to the axonal early endosomal compartment,
where sorting takes place. It is not presently known whether a portion
of the APP delivered to the early endosomal compartment recycles to the
presynaptic plasma membrane. After sorting, APP is transported
retrogradely to the somatodendritic domain. The organelle that
transports APP retrogradely is currently unknown but may correspond to
the multivesicular body-like structure described previously in
hippocampal neurons (Parton et al., 1992 ). The fate of APP delivered
retrogradely to the somatodendritic domain is also poorly understood. A
portion of this APP is sorted transcytotically to the somatic surface
(Simons et al., 1995 ; Yamazaki et al., 1995 ), but delivery to
degradative late endosomal/lysosomal compartments probably also occurs.
APP does not appear to use the WGA/lectin internalization pathway
(Trojanowski and Gonatas, 1983 ) for retrograde transport to the
somatodendritic domain, but it is not known whether APP and lectins
(bound to cell-surface glycoproteins) are internalized initially via a
common pool of clathrin-coated vesicles.
The relationship between neuronal APP endocytosis and the molecular
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease remains unclear. Internalization of cell-surface APP contributes to the extracellular release of A in
non-neuronal cells (Koo and Squazzo, 1994 ). Moreover, amyloidogenic processing of APP including release of A have been demonstrated recently in cultured neurons (Simons et al., 1996 ; Turner et al., 1996 ). In light of these findings, we argue that further elucidation of
endocytotic APP trafficking and processing in neurons will contribute
to our understanding of the pathogenesis of this disease.
FOOTNOTES
Received Aug. 2, 1996; revised Oct. 15, 1996; accepted Oct. 22, 1996.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants K08
AG00681 (N.M.-S.) and AG12376 (E.K.), the State of Illinois Department
of Public Health (N.M.-S.), and the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty
Scholars in Aging Research Program (E.K.). We thank the following
investigators for providing antibodies, without which these studies
could not have been accomplished: Dr. B. Bowman, Dr. F. Brodsky, Dr. K. Buckley, Dr. P. De Camilli, Dr. M. Forgac, Dr. R. Jahn, Dr. R. Melvold,
and Dr. I. Trowbridge. We thank Dr. K. Buckley for helpful discussions
and for critical review of this manuscript. We thank Dr. M. Forgac for
providing bovine whole-brain clathrin-coated vesicles. We thank Dr. R. Jahn for providing the rat brain synaptosomal preparation protocol, for
assistance with the synaptophysin immunoisolation, and for helpful
discussions.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Numa R. Marquez-Sterling,
Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611.
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The Amyloid-beta Precursor Protein Is Phosphorylated via Distinct Pathways during Differentiation, Mitosis, Stress, and Degeneration
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E. Marcello, F. Gardoni, D. Mauceri, S. Romorini, A. Jeromin, R. Epis, B. Borroni, F. Cattabeni, C. Sala, A. Padovani, et al.
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G. M. Shaked, M. P. Kummer, D. C. Lu, V. Galvan, D. E. Bredesen, and E. H. Koo
A{beta} induces cell death by direct interaction with its cognate extracellular domain on APP (APP 597-624)
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N. N. Dewji, D. Mukhopadhyay, and S. J. Singer
An early specific cell-cell interaction occurs in the production of beta-amyloid in cell cultures
PNAS,
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S. Ye, Y. Huang, K. Mullendorff, L. Dong, G. Giedt, E. C. Meng, F. E. Cohen, I. D. Kuntz, K. H. Weisgraber, and R. W. Mahley
Apolipoprotein (apo) E4 enhances amyloid {beta} peptide production in cultured neuronal cells: ApoE structure as a potential therapeutic target
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December 20, 2005;
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M. Khvotchev and T. C. Sudhof
Proteolytic Processing of Amyloid-{beta} Precursor Protein by Secretases Does Not Require Cell Surface Transport
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C. U. Pietrzik, I.-S. Yoon, S. Jaeger, T. Busse, S. Weggen, and E. H. Koo
FE65 Constitutes the Functional Link between the Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein and the Amyloid Precursor Protein
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April 28, 2004;
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