Amine oxidase activity of β-amyloid precursor protein modulates systemic and local catecholamine levels.
- Author(s)
- Duce, JA; Ayton, S; Miller, AA; Tsatsanis, A; Lam, LQ; Leone, L; Corbin, JE; Butzkueven, H; Kilpatrick, TJ; Rogers, JT; Barnham, KJ; Finkelstein, DI; Bush, AI;
- Details
- Publication Year 2013-02,Volume 18,Issue #2,Page 245-254
- Journal Title
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- The catecholamines dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) are neurotransmitters and hormones that mediate stress responses in tissues and plasma. The expression of β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is responsive to stress and is high in tissues rich in catecholamines. We recently reported that APP is a ferroxidase, subsuming, in neurons and other cells, the iron-export activity that ceruloplasmin mediates in glia. Here we report that, like ceruloplasmin, APP also oxidizes synthetic amines and catecholamines catalytically (K(m) NE=0.27 mM), through a site encompassing its ferroxidase motif and selectively inhibited by zinc. Accordingly, APP knockout mice have significantly higher levels of DA, NE and E in brain, plasma and select tissues. Consistent with this, these animals have increased resting heart rate and systolic blood pressure as well as suppressed prolactin and lymphocyte levels. These findings support a role for APP in extracellular catecholaminergic clearance.
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Keywords
- Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor ; catecholamines ; blood pressure
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2011.168
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