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Volume 271, Number 49, Issue of December 6, 1996 pp. 31215-31221
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Secreted Glypican Binds to the Amyloid Precursor Protein of Alzheimer's Disease (APP) and Inhibits APP-induced Neurite Outgrowth

(Received for publication, May 8, 1996, and in revised form, September 5, 1996)

Timothy G. Williamson , Su San Mok , Anna Henry , Roberto Cappai , Arthur D. Lander ^¶ , Victor Nurcombe ^** , Konrad Beyreuther , Colin L. Masters and David H. Small

From the  Department of Pathology, the ^** Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, the University of Melbourne and the  Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia, the ^¶ Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92717-2300, and the  Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, D-6900 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany

The amyloid precursor protein (APP) of Alzheimer's disease has been shown to stimulate neurite outgrowth in vitro. The effect of APP on neurite outgrowth can be enhanced if APP is presented to neurons in substrate-bound form, in the presence of heparan sulfate proteoglycans. To identify specific heparan sulfate proteoglycans that bind to APP, conditioned medium from neonatal mouse brain cells was subjected to affinity chromatography with recombinant APP₆₉₅ as a ligand. Glypican bound strongly to the APP affinity column. Purified glypican bound to APP with an equilibrium dissociation constant of 2.8 nM and inhibited APP-induced neurite outgrowth from chick sympathetic neurons. The effect of glypican was specific for APP, as glypican did not inhibit laminin-induced neurite outgrowth. Furthermore, treatment of cultures with 4-methylumbelliferyl--D-xyloside, a competitive inhibitor of proteoglycan glycanation, inhibited APP-induced neurite outgrowth but did not inhibit laminin-induced neurite outgrowth. This result suggests that endogenous proteoglycans are required for substrate-bound APP to stimulate neurite outgrowth. Secreted glypican may act to inhibit APP-induced neurite outgrowth in vivo by competing with endogenous proteoglycans for binding to APP.

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