Patent Application: US-37193095-A

Abstract:
a method of identifying a therapeutic useful for treating or preventing alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease , which method includes the steps of contacting a first molecule containing the couplone portion of app with a second molecule containing the amino acid sequence of g o or an app - associating region of g o , in the presence of a candidate compound ; and determining whether the candidate compound interferes with the association of the first and second molecules , such interference being an indication that the candidate compound is a potential alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease therapeutic .

Description:
it was previously shown that the insulin - like growth factor ii receptor ( igf - iir ) couples directly to the g protein referred to as g i ( nishimoto et al ., j . biol . chem . 264 : 14029 - 14038 , 1989 ) via a 14 - residue section of the cytoplasmic tail of igf - iir , arg 241 - lys 2423 ( okamoto et al ., cell 62 : 709 - 717 , 1990 ; okamoto et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 88 : 8020 - 8023 , 1991 ). the structural determinants for the g i - activating function in igf - iir were defined as ( i ) two basic residues at the n - terminal region of the amino acid sequence , and ( ii ) a c - terminal motif of b -- b -- x -- b or b -- b -- x -- x -- b ( where b is a basic residue and x is a non - basic residue ) ( okamoto et al ., cell 62 : 709 - 717 , 1990 ). to assess whether app might function as a g protein - coupled receptor , the amino acid sequence of human app695 was examined for regions of less than 26 residues which satisfy ( i ) and ( ii ). the sequence his 657 - lys 676 is the only such region in the cytoplasmic domain of app695 . in two other isoforms of app , app751 ( ponte et al ., nature 331 : 525 - 527 , 1988 ; tanzi et al ., nature 331 : 528 - 530 , 1988 ) and app770 ( kitaguchi et al ., nature 331 : 530 - 532 , 1988 ), as well as in mouse app695 ( yamada et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun . 149 : 665 - 671 , 1987 ), this sequence is completely conserved . a peptide corresponding to the his 657 - lys 676 region of app [ hhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( seq id no : 1 )] was synthesized and purified by standard methods using solid phase synthesis ; this peptide is referred to as &# 34 ; peptide 20 &# 34 ;. similarly prepared were peptides corresponding to other regions of app 695 : app ( 1 - 10 ), mlpglallll ( seq id no : 11 ); app ( 597 - 606 ) , daefrhdsgy ( seq id no : 12 ); app ( 677 - 695 ), mqqngyenptykffeqmqn ( seq id no : 13 ); and app ( 639 - 648 ), tvivitlvml ( seq id no : 7 ), a portion of the transmembrane region of app ; as well as the following variants of peptide 20 : hgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( h - deleted , seq id no : 14 ); gvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( hh - deleted , seq id no : 15 ); hhgvvevdaavtpee ( rhlsk - deleted , seq id no : 16 ); kqytsihhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( kqytsi - added , seq id no : 17 ); and tvivitlvmlhhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( transmembrane region - connected peptide 20 ; seq id no : 18 ). peptides were purified by hplc to greater than 95 % purity , and were used immediately after synthesis . trimeric g o was purified to homogeneity from bovine brain as described ( katada et al ., febs lett . 213 : 353 - 358 , 1987 ). this g o preparation was stored in 20 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 1 mm edta , and 0 . 7 % chaps , and diluted ≧ 10 fold for assays . g i3 α , which was used in combination with 1 . 5 - fold concentrated gβγ ( okamoto et al ., natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 88 : 8020 - 8023 , 1991 ), was prepared as described by morishita et al ., biochim . biophys . acta 161 : 1280 - 1285 , 1989 . low molecular weight g proteins were prepared as described by matsui et al ., j . biol . chem . 263 : 11071 - 4 , 1988 ; gβγ was purified from bovine brain as set forth in katada et al ., febs lett . 213 : 353 - 358 , 1987 . gtpγs binding to g o was assayed in a buffer containing 50 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 100 μm edta , 120 μm mgcl 2 , and 60 nm [ 35 s ] gtpγs ( dupont - new england nuclear ) at 37 ° c ., and the fraction of total g o bound to gtpγs was measured as described ( okamoto et al ., cell 62 : 709 - 717 , 1990 ). gtpγs binding to peptides was negligible . the total amount of g o in a given preparation was defined as the saturation amount of gtpγs bound to g o following a 30 - min incubation of g o with 10 mm mg 2 + and ≧ 60 nm gtpγs at 30 ° c . reconstitution of g o into phospholipid vesicles was accomplished with 1 mg / ml of phosphatidylcholine , using the gel filtration method ( nishimoto et al ., j . biol . chem . 264 : 14029 - 14038 , 1989 ). in a final incubation for gtpγs binding , 5 nm of reconstituted g o was used . for experiments exploring the effect of mg 2 + , the mg 2 + concentration was set by using mg - edta buffer ( birnbaumer et al ., j . eur . j . biochem . 136 : 107 - 112 , 1983 ). bovine brain membranes , prepared as described ( katada et al ., febs lett . 213 : 353 - 358 , 1987 ) and suspended in buffer a [ 10 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 1 mm edta , 10 mm acetic acid , and 250 mm sucrose , plus a mixture ( termed &# 34 ; pal &# 34 ;) of 2 mm pmsf , 20 μg / ml aprotinin , and 20 μm leupeptin ], were centrifuged and the pellet was solubilized for 1 h at 4 ° c . in buffer b ( 10 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 1 mm edta , 120 mm nacl , 0 . 5 % chaps , and pal ). following centrifugation of the material at 15000 rpm for 1 h , the supernatant ( 500 μg protein , unless specified ) was incubated in buffer c ( 20 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 1 mm edta , 120 mm nacl , and pal ) and 2 % bsa with 22c11 - coated protein g - sepharose , which had been prepared by incubating protein g - sepharose ( pharmacia ) with anti - app monoclonal antibody 22c11 ( boehringer mannheim ) for 1 h at 4 ° c . an antibody concentration of ≧ 2 μg / ml was found to saturate precipitation of app and g o , so 2 μg / ml was the concentration used for immunoprecipitation studies . as a control , 2 μg / ml of rabbit igg was used . after overnight shaking at 4 ° c ., the immunoprecipitated sample was centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 5 min . the pellet was washed three times with ice - cold buffer c and the final pellet was applied to sds - page . electroblotting onto a pvdf sheet was performed as described ( okamoto et al ., j . biol . chem . 266 : 1085 - 1091 , 1991 ). after blocking with pbs containing 2 % skim milk and 1 % bsa , the sheet was incubated with the first antibody [ 1 μg / ml of 22c11 ; 1 / 1000 dilution of anti - g o α monoclonal antibody gc / 2 ( dupont - new england nuclear ); 1 / 1000 dilution of 1c1 , a monoclonal antibody against the c - terminal peptide 677 - 695 of app 695 ] for 4 h , and then exposed to horseradish peroxidase - conjugated goat igg reactive for mouse or rabbit immunoglobulins for 2 - 4 h at room temperature . the antigenic bands were detected with an ecl detection kit ( amersham ). yl1 / 2 ( sera lab ), an anti - tubulin antibody , was used at 1 : 500 dilution for immunodetection . in the experiment shown in fig1 ( b ), 10 nm g o was incubated with water or 100 μm of each peptide for 2 min , and the amount of gtpγs bound to g o at the end of this period was measured . in the experiment shown in fig1 ( c ), 10nm g o was incubated with water ( o ) or 100 μm peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) (), and gtpγs binding was measured at the indicated times . from fig1 ( d ), it can be seen that peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) stimulated the rate constant of gtpγs binding to g o in a dose - dependent manner , whereas fig1 ( b ) shows that peptides from other regions of app695 were ineffective . gtpγs binding to g o in the presence or absence of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) obeyed first - order kinetics according to the equation ( b is the binding at time t ; bt is the total binding observable at infinite time ; and k app is the rate constant for gtpγs binding ). the ability of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) to activate g o was gradually decreased during storage at either - 4 ° c . or - 20 ° c . studies using structural variant peptides suggest that both the n - terminal basic residues and the c - terminal b -- b -- x -- x -- b motif play essential roles in the g o - activating function of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) [ fig1 ( d )]. in this experiment , 10 nm g o was incubated with various concentrations of hhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( peptide 20 , seq id no : 1 ; □), hgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( h - deleted , seq id no : 14 ; ⋄), gvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( hh - deleted , seq id no : 15 ; □), hhgvvevdaavtpee ( rhlsk - deleted , seq id no : 16 ; ♦), or kqytsihhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk ( kqytsi - added , seq id no : 17 ; ▪), and gtpγs binding to g o at 2 min . was measured . fig1 ( d ) indicates which aspects of primary structure determine the g o - activator function of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ). deletion of either one or both of the n - terminal his residues nullified g o - activator function of the peptide . the peptide ( seq id no : 16 ) in which the c - terminal five residues of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) has been deleted is several times less potent than peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ). as illustrated in fig1 ( e ), g o reconstituted in phospholipid vesicles was incubated with transmembrane region - connected peptide 20 ( tvivitlvmlhhgvvevdaavtpeerhlsk , seq id no : 18 ; □) or the partial sequence of the app transmembrane domain alone ( tvivitlvml , seq id no : 7 ; □). transmembrane region - connected peptide 20 ( seq id no : 18 ) was also incubated with g o in the absence of phospholipids and the presence of 0 . 07 % chaps (♦). the transmembrane region - connected peptide 20 ( seq id no : 18 ) stimulated g o reconstituted in phospholipid vesicles with a potency 10 times greater than that of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ). the transmembrane region alone ( seq id no : 7 ) was without effect on g o . in the absence of phospholipids , transmembrane region - connected peptide 20 ( seq id no : 18 ) showed an effect on g o no more potent than peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ). therefore , the stimulatory action of this transmembrane region - connected peptide ( seq id no : 18 ) is attributed to the peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) sequence ; the potentiating effect of the transmembrane region may be exerted by interactions with phospholipids . in the experiment shown in fig1 ( f ), adp - ribosylation of g o was accomplished by incubating g o reconstituted in phospholipid vesicles with 10 μg / ml preactivated pertussis toxin in the presence of 10 μm nad for 15 min at 30 ° c . as described ( okamoto et al ,, cell 62 : 709 - 717 , 1990 ). preactivation of pertussis toxin ( funakoshi , japan ) was carried out by treating the toxin with 100 μm atp and 1 mm dtt for 10 min at 30 ° c . reconstitution of g o into phospholipid vesicles was accomplished with 1 mg / ml phosphatidylcholine ( sigman , p - 5638 ) at a final g o concentration of 50 . 2 nm in a buffer containing 20 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 0 . 1 mm edta , 1 mm dtt , and 100 mm nacl by the gel filtration method ( nishimoto et al ., j . biol . chem . 264 : 14029 - 14038 , 1989 ). in a final incubation for gtpγs binding , 5 nm of reconstituted g o was used . increasing concentrations of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) were incubated for 2 min with g o reconstituted in phospholipid vesicles which had been treated with pertussis toxin in the presence (♦) or absence (□) of nad , and gtpγs binding to g o was measured . although peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) produced 2 - 3 fold stimulation of gtpγs binding to g o in the mid - range of mg 2 + concentrations , the effect of peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) could not be observed at low (≦ 100 nm ) or high (≧ 10 mm ) mg 2 + concentrations . peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) had little effect on g proteins other than g o : g i1 , g i2 , g i3 , g s , c - ki - ras p21 and smg p25a were not stimulated by this peptide ( data not shown ). thus , peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) activates g o in a receptor - like manner , suggesting that app interacts directly with g o through the peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) region . in an effort to determine whether app is linked to g o in a native membrane environment , the coprecipitation studies shown in fig2 a were performed . solubilized membranes of bovine brain were first immunoprecipitated by monoclonal anti - app antibody 22c11 , and the immunoprecipitate was then probed by immunodetection with 22c11 ( lane 2 ) or 1c1 , a monoclonal antibody against the c - terminal peptide 677 - 695 of app ( seq id no : 13 ; lane 4 ). lanes 1 and 3 of fig2 a indicate the controls in which either no solubilized membranes were included ( lane 1 ), or rabbit igg was used for the precipitation step instead of antibody 22c11 ( lane 3 ). in each control , immunodetection was performed with 22c11 . the 55 - kda and 25 - kda bands seen in lanes 1 and 2 may be heavy and light chains of the 22c11 used for precipitation , which reacted with an anti - mouse igg antibody during immunodetection . the precipitate by control rabbit igg contained no detectable app . although the 100 kd molecular size of app appears here to be slightly less than the 110 - 130 kd reported ( weidemann et al ., cell 57 : 115 - 126 , 1989 ), the precipitated form is unlikely to be an extracellular fragment of app , because 1c1 recognizes this 100 - kda band . in the experiment illustrated in fig2 b , coprecipitation of various g proteins with app was investigated . bovine brain membrane preparations were immunoprecipitated with 22c11 ; the immunoprecipitated proteins were subjected to sds - page and immunoblotted with the indicated anti - g protein antisera ( 1 / 1000 dilution ). lane 2 : gc / 2 , anti - g o α antiserum ; lane 3 : gc / 2 plus 1 μg / ml of purified g o ; lane 4 : ga / 1 , common gα antiserum ; lane 5 : as / 7 , anti - giα antiserum ; lane 6 : ms / 1 , common gβ antiserum . lane 1 shows a control immunoblot with gc / 2 , in which a buffer solution rather than the bovine brain membrane preparation was immunoprecipitated with 22c11 . lane 7 indicates immunoblotting with gc / 2 of the precipitate resulting from immunoprecipitation of brain membranes with control rabbit igg , rather than 22c11 . the identity of the 39 - kda protein in lane 2 as g o was verified by its absence in the non - membrane control ( lane 1 ); by its staining with another g o α - specific antibody , αgo1 ( morishita et al ., eur . j . biochem . 174 : 7 - 94 , 1988 ) ( data not shown ); and by a diminution of staining of this band in the presence of excess soluble g o ( lane 3 ). the 22c11 - precipitate also contained immunoreactivity of gβ in a doublet at 35 - 36 - kda ( lane 6 ). the 22c11 - precipitate did not react with an anti - giα antibody as / 7 ( lane 5 ). the antibody ga / 1 detected only a 39 - kda band in the 22c11 - precipitate ( lane 4 ). the control rabbit igg immunoprecipitate did not produce anti - g o - immunoreactive bands corresponding to either app or g o ( lane 7 ). these experiments indicate that the 22c11 - precipitate from brain membranes contains app immunoreactivity at 100 kda , g o α immunoreactivity at 39 kda , and gβ immunoreactivity in a doublet at 35 - 36 kda , but no detectable immunoreactivity indicating the presence of g i α or other heterotrimeric g proteins . a tubulin antibody , yl1 / 2 , did not stain the 22c11 - precipitate ( data not shown ). in the experiment shown in fig2 c , the effect of mg 2 + concentration on co - precipitation of g o with anti - app antibody was studied . 100 μg of solubilized brain membranes were precipitated by 22c11 in the presence of various mg 2 + concentrations controlled with mg - edta buffer ( birnbaumer et al ., j . eur . j . biochem . 136 : 107 - 112 , 1983 ). the precipitates were analyzed by immunoblotting with gc / 2 . the control lane indicates the results of precipitation of brain membranes by rabbit igg followed by immunodetection with gc / 2 . in the absence of mg 2 + , g o was less efficiently co - precipitated by 22c11 . mg 2 + concentrations between 1 μm and 1 mm resulted in maximal immunoprecipitation of g o . at concentrations & gt ; 10 mm , relatively little g o was precipitated . in contrast , immunoprecipitation of app by 22c11 was not affected by mg 2 + concentration ( data not shown ). these results indicate that , while mg 2 + is not absolutely required for complex formation by app and g o , the concentration of mg 2 + does strongly influence complex formation . a mid range of mg 2 + concentration was found to facilitate app - g o association . fig2 d illustrates the results of an experiment indicating that peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) prevents the 22c11 - mediated co - precipitation of g o , whereas it did not affect the precipitation of app by 22c11 . in contrast , a control peptide ( seq id no : 13 ) representing a segment of app different from that represented by peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ) had no discernable effect on 22c11 - mediated co - precipitation of g o . in this experiment , solubilized brain membranes were incubated with 22c11 - coated beads in the presence of 10 μm peptide 20 ( seq id no : 1 ; 2nd and 5th lanes ) or 10 μm of the control peptide , peptide 677 - 695 of app ( seq id no : 13 ; 3rd and 6th lanes ), or in the absence of both of these peptides ( 1st and 4th lanes ). in this experiment , an anti - mouse igg antibody different from that used in ( a ) was employed . a baculovirus dna encoding full - length app 695 ( seq id no : 9 ) was prepared as outlined in fig3 a . authentic mouse app 695 cdna ( seq id no : 9 ) was provided by dr . yoshiyuki sakaki ( university of tokyo , japan ) ( yamada et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun . 149 : 665 - 671 , 1987 ) in the vector puc18 . the hindiii - bamhi fragment containing the entire coding region was initially subcloned into the vector pbr322 ( pbr - app ). a single bamhi site was inserted immediately before the atg codon of the hindiii - sphi fragment . this bamhi site was inserted to permit efficient expression of the encoded app protein in baculovirus - infected cells . the bamhi site - inserted app 695 - coding dna ( bamhi - app 695 ) was constructed from the hindiii - sphi fragment and pbr - app , utilizing their internal kpni sites , and subcloned into puc18 . by using bamhi - app 695 as template , two truncation mutants were generated and subcloned into puc18 . these mutants possess an insertion of two tga codons immediately before ( δn ) or after ( δc ) the peptide 20 sequence . each bamhi - bamhi fragment of these respective app - variation - encoding puc18 plasmids was inserted into the baculovirus transfer / expression vector pvl1393 ( invitrogen ). the entire region that had been through a single - stranded intermediate was sequenced to confirm the absence of unwanted nucleotide changes . new insertions were generated by oligonucleotide - directed mutagenesis with a kit ( takara ) by the method of kunkel et al . ( meth . enzymol . 154 : 367 - 382 , 1987 ). for the insertion of a bamhi site , a restriction fragment encoding the atg start codon was subcloned into the vector m13mp18 and a single stranded template was generated . an oligonucleotide primer ( ccacgcaggatcacgggatccatgctgcccagcttg ; seq id no : 19 ) was used to introduce ggatcc ( seq id no : 20 ) immediately before the start codon . following primer extension , the phage was used to transform e . coli strain jm109 . plaques were selected and single stranded dna was sequenced . a restriction fragment containing the mutated region was subcloned into pbr - app . for the insertion of the stop codons , oligonucleotide primers [ cagtacacatccatctgatgacatcatggcgtggtg ( seq id no : 21 ) and cgccatctctccagtgatgaatgcagcagaacgga ( seq id no : 22 )] and the m13mp19 vector were used to introduce two sequential tga stop codons . using the method of summers and smith ( summers et al ., tex . agric . exp . stn . bull . 1555 , 1987 ), baculoviruses incorporating these app cdnas were generated using selection by immunoblot analysis with 22c11 , and recovered by infecting sf9 cells ( invitrogen ). four days after treatment of sf9 cells with the viruses , cells were homogenized and suspended in buffer a . after the solubilization of the pellet with buffer b , the supernatant ( 100 μg ) was mixed overnight with 22c11 - coated protein g - sepharose in buffer c plus 2 % bsa at 4 ° c . on a shaker . after centrifugation , the precipitated beads were incubated with purified g o ( 1 μg ) in buffer c supplemented with 1 . 1 mm mgcl 2 and 2 % bsa for 8 - 24 h at 4 ° c . on a shaker . after washing four times with ice - cold buffer c , the centrifugation precipitate was subjected to sds - page , electroblotting , and immunodetection with the first antibodies ( 1 μg / ml of 22c11 ; 10 μg / ml of anti - alz 90 ; 1 / 1000 dilution of 1c1 ; 1 / 500 dilution of 4g5 ; 0 . 1 μg / ml of αgo1 ) and the second goat anti - mouse or anti - rabbit iggs conjugated with hrp . ( immunodetection of 1c1 and 4g5 , both of which are mouse igm ( κ ), was accomplished using as second antibody a mixture of hrp - conjugated anti - rabbit igg , rabbit anti - mouse igm and rabbit anti - mouse κ antibodies .) the three app constructs prepared as described above are compared in the schematic diagram of fig3 b . the polypeptides encoded by all three constructs retain the entire transmembrane and extracellular domains of app ; while δn ( seq id no : 23 ) lacks all of the peptide 20 residues as well as the sequence on the carboxy terminal side of the peptide 20 region , ac ( seq id no : 24 ) retains the peptide 20 sequence and is missing only the latter sequence . sf9 cells were infected , using standard methods , by recombinant baculoviruses encoding full length app 695 cdna ( seq id no : 9 ), app 1 - 656 cdna ( an ; seq id no : 23 ), or app 1 - 676 cdna ( δc ; seq id n0 : 24 ). in uninfected sf9 cells , no immunoreactivity for anti - app or anti - g o antibodies was detected ( data not shown ). the membranes of sf9 cells infected with the baculoviruses encoding app 695 ( seq id no : 9 ), an ( seq id no : 23 ), and δc ( seq id no : 24 ) genes ( referred to as sf9 - app 695 , sf9 - δn , and sf9 - δc , respectively ) were found to express , respectively , 130 -, 120 - and 130 - kda proteins reactive with antibody 22c11 ( fig3 d , right side ). the sf9 - app 695 cells expressed app at ≈ 0 . 1 % of the total membrane protein . when the membranes of the three types of infected cells were immunoprecipitated with antibody anti - alz 90 ( boehringer mannheim ), a mouse monoclonal antibody specific for an epitope corresponding to to residues 551 - 608 of app ( seq id no : 25 ; a section of app that is within the extracellular domain ), 130 - kda , 120 - kda , and 130 - kda proteins were recognized in sf9 - app 695 , sf9 - δn , and sf9 - δc cells , respectively ( fig3 c , top panel ). membranes from all three types of infected cells showed approximately equivalent reactivity to the antibody , indicating that at least this portion of the extracellular domain was intact on each of the three and that all three cell types express approximately equal amounts of recombinant protein . when the antibody used was 1c1 , a mouse monoclonal prepared against a peptide corresponding to residues 677 - 695 of app ( seq id no : 13 ), only sf9 - app 695 membranes were reactive , indicating that the region corresponding to the c - terminal portion of the cytoplasmic domain is missing from both δn ( seq id no : 23 ) and δc ( seq id no : 24 ) ( fig3 c , middle panel ). when the antibody used was 4g5 , a mouse monoclonal antibody raised against a peptide corresponding to residues 657 - 676 of app ( seq id no : 1 ; the peptide 20 region of the cytoplasmic domain ), 130 kda bands from both sf9 - app 695 and sf9 - δc membranes reacted with the antibody , but sf9 - δn membranes did not , a demonstration that δn ( seq id no : 23 ) but not δc ( seq id no : 24 ) lacks the peptide 20 region of app ( fig3 c , bottom panel ). these experiments clearly indicate that the expressed proteins are recombinant app 1 - 695 ( seq id no : 9 ), app 1 - 656 ( seq id no : 23 ), and app 1 - 676 ( seq id no : 24 ), respectively , as designed . the 22c11 - precipitates from these sf9 membranes expressing various forms of app were exposed to purified g o , reprecipitated with 22c11 , and subjected to immunoblot analysis using anti - g o α antibody αgo1 ( fig3 d , left four lanes ) and by 22c11 ( right four lanes ). αgo1 ( morishita et al ., eur . j . biochem . 174 : 87 - 94 , 1988 ) was provided by dr . tomiko asano ; similar results were obtained when antibody gc / 2 was substituted . the control lanes are 22c11 - precipitate exposed to g o in the absence of sf9 membranes . approximately 1 / 10 - 1 / 20 ( 0 . 05 - 0 . 1 μg / tube ) of the reconstituted g o was precipitated , together with a comparable amount (≈ 0 . 1 μg / tube ) of app . easily detectable amounts of g o α were present in the final precipitate when g o was mixed with 22c11 - precipitates from sf9 - δc or sf9 - app695 membranes , but essentially no g o α was found in the final precipitate from sf9 - δn membranes . thus , formation of an app - g o complex requires the peptide 20 region , residues 657 - 676 ( seq id no : 1 ). in the experiment illustrated in fig3 e , 22c11 - precipitates from sf9 - app 695 membranes ( 100 μg protein each ) were incubated with activated g o ( lanes 2 and 4 ) or unactivated g o ( lanes 1 and 3 ); the final precipitates ( left panel ) and supernatants ( right panel ) were analyzed by simultaneous immunoblotting with 22c11 and αgo1 antibodies . activation of g o was carried out by incubating g o in 20 mm hepes / naoh ( ph 7 . 4 ), 1 mm edta , 2 mm mgcl 2 , and 1 μm gtpγs overnight at room temperature . when g o was incubated with gtpγs , no g o α associated with the app - 22c11 complex ( fig3 e ), suggesting that the activation state of the g protein regulates app - g o association . this study suggests that app functions as a receptor coupled to g o through the g o - activator cytoplasmic domain his 657 - lys 676 ( seq id no : 1 ). app has a point mutation in at least one form of familial alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease ( goate et al ., nature 349 : 704 - 706 , 1991 ). a structural alteration of app is therefore thought to be one cause of alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease , although it remains unknown how the mutation might produce the disease . one novel possibility suggested by this study is that the cytoplasmic , c - terminal fragment of app is pathogenic . it has been suggested ( abraham et al ., biotechnology 7 : 147 - 153 , 1989 ; shivers et al ., embo j . 7 : 1365 - 1370 , 1988 ; kametani et al ., biomedical research 10 : 179 - 183 , 1989 ) that the residual c - terminal portion of app may remain in the cell membrane after abnormal cleavage of app to produce β / a4 protein in alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease neurons . by analogy with the oncogenic transformation of c - erb b into v - erb b , such a structural alteration of app may alter its function and prompt app to constitutively activate g o . this hypothesis is consistent with the study ( yanker et al ., science 245 : 417 - 420 , 1989 ) indicating that recombinant expression of the c - terminal 105 - residue portion of app in neuronal cells evokes cell death , and with the reports that g o activity is linked to neuronal growth cone motility ( strittmatter et al ., bioessays 13 : 127 - 134 , 1990 ), axon and dendrite formation ( granneman et al ., j . neurochemistry 54 : 1995 - 2001 , 1990 ), and memory ( guillen et al ., embo j . 9 : 1449 - 1455 , 1990 ). this study suggests that alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease is a disorder of an app - g o signalling system caused by structural alterations of app . the screening method of the invention can be carried out as follows : the assay used can be a very simple cell - free assay employing a first polypeptide consisting essentially of the couplone , or g o - binding portion , of app ( seq id no : 1 ) and a second polypeptide consisting essentially of an app - binding portion of g o . this app - binding portion of g o may be the 15 - residue segment identified as the anticouplone portion of g o ( seq id no : 3 ), or it may be one or both of the two flanking regions , residues 1 - 3 ( seq id no : 4 ) and residues 19 - 36 ( seq id no : 5 ) of g o . alternatively , longer portions , or all , of app and / or g o can be used , or the appropriate portions of app and / or g o can be linked to other polypeptides to form hybrid polypeptides with characteristics ( such as altered immunoreactivity or enzymatic activity ) that would improve detection of the endpoint of the assay . the assay is carried out by contacting the app - based polypeptide with the g o - based polypeptide in the presence of a candidate compound , in parallel with a control assay containing no candidate compound , and determining whether the candidate compound inhibits co - immunoprecipitation of the first and second polypeptides ( using either an antibody specific for the first polypeptide or an antibody specific for the second polypeptide ). alternatively , activation of the second ( g o ) polypeptide may be the measured criterion : if so , the second polypeptide must include the gtp - binding region of g o ( seq id no : 10 ), and gtp or an appropriate non - hydrolyzable analog thereof ( such as gtpγs or gpp ( nh ) p ) must be included in the assay . the assay may also be carried out using phospholipid vesicles prepared by standard methods ( e . g ., as described by nishimoto et al ., j . biol . chem . 264 : 14029 - 14038 , 1989 ), provided that the first ( app ) polypeptide includes a region of hydrophobic amino acids [ such as all ( seq id no : 8 ) or a portion ( e . g ., seq id no : 7 ) of the transmembrane region of app ) that permit it to be anchored in the phospholipid bilayer . alternatively , the assay may be carried out using intact cells or red cell ghosts which contain app and g o , or appropriate portions thereof . the cells may express the first and second polypeptides naturally or by virtue of genetic engineering , or the polypeptides may be introduced directly into the cells or ghosts by standard means . the progress of alzheimer &# 39 ; s disease may be halted or reversed by treating a patient with a compound which diminishes the activation of neural g o by truncated app . such a compound may be identified in a screening assay as described above , or may consist essentially of a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence of ( a ) the couplone region of app ( seq id no : 1 ), ( b ) the anticouplone region of g o ( seq id no : 3 ), or ( c ) the app - associating region ( s ) of g o ( seq id no : 4 and / or 5 ), or a combination of ( b ) and ( c ). such polypeptides may be produced in quantity by standard recombinant means , or by standard synthetic techniques . to minimize proteolytic degradation in vivo , the carboxy and amino termini may be derivatized ( e . g ., with ester or amide groups ), some or all of the amino acids may be replaced with d - amino acids , or particularly sensitive peptide linkages may be substituted with non - peptide bonds using standard methodology . to improve penetration of the blood - brain barrier ( bbb ), the polypeptides may be altered to increase lipophilicity ( e . g ., by esterification to a bulky lipophilic moiety such as cholesteryl ) or to supply a cleavable &# 34 ; targetor &# 34 ; moiety that enhances retention on the brain side of the barrier ( bodor et al ., science 257 : 1698 - 1700 , 1992 ). alternatively , the polypeptide may be linked to an antibody to the transferrin receptor , in order to exploit that receptor &# 39 ; s role in transporting iron across the blood - brain barrier , as taught by friden et al ., science 259 : 373 - 377 , 1993 . it is expected that an intravenous dosage equivalent to approximately 1 to 100 μmoles of the polypeptide of the invention per kg per day , or an intrathecally administered dosage of approximately 0 . 1 to 50 μmoles per kg per day , will be effective in blocking activation of g o in an alzheimer &# 39 ; s patient . if the polypeptide is sufficiently protected from proteolytic degradation , as described above , it may also be administered orally in appropriately higher doses . alternatively , the compound may be incorporated into a slow - release implant to ensure a relatively constant supply of the therapeutic to the patient &# 39 ; s brain . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 30 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness :( d ) topology : linear ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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