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. 2019 Dec 27;21(1):209. doi: 10.3390/ijms21010209

Table 1.

Reported phosphorylation sites of APP695 and its effects.

Phosphorylation Site Kinases/Signaling Pathways Reported Effects References
Threonine 654 CaMKII N.D. 1 [55]
ROCK2 Blocking T654 phosphorylation; promoting BACE1 relocation from endosomes to lysosomes and APP trafficking to lysosomes; reducing Aβ generation when inhibited [56]
Serine 655 PKC, CaMKII Increasing the secretion of APP into cerebrospinal fluid and decreasing the cleavage of mature APP; enhancing APP secretory traffic when activated [55,57,58,59]
ROCK1 Enhancing the interaction between BACE1 and APP and promoting Aβ generation when activated [60]
APP kinase I Putatively modulating the internalization of APP when activated [61]
Threonine 668 CDC2 kinase Increasing the content of immature APP and C-terminal fragments while reducing the level of secreted APP products when activated [40]
CDK5 Enhancing the secretion of Aβ, sAPPβ, and sAPPα; enriching APP in endosomes when activated [43,44,49]
GSK-3β Affecting copper-induced APP trafficking to axons [41,42]
JNK Inducing APP degradation, lowering sAPPβ and Aβ generation, and promoting non-amyloidogenic processing when inhibited [46,51,52]
JIP-3-JNK Phosphorylating APP and transporting pAPP to neuritis when activated [50]
DAPK1 Shifting APP toward non-amyloidogenic pathway and decreasing Aβ generation when inhibited [54,62]
LRRK2 Elevating the nuclear translocation of AICD and its transcriptional activity and exacerbating dopaminergic neurons when activated [63]
Plk2 Accelerating APP amyloidogenic cleavage by β-secretase at synapses when activated [64]
Serine 675 Plk2 Stimulating the endocytosis of APP and driving the BACE1 cleavage; promoting meprin β mediated APP processing when activated [64]
Tyrosine 682 Abl Phosphorylating APP and forming stable complexes with pAPP; affecting APP binding to FE65 and X11 when activated [65]
Src Increasing the formation of pAPP-Grb2 complexes when activated [66]
NGF-TrkA Reducing the generation of the AICD; regulating the subcellular distribution and activation of TrkA when activated [67,68]
Fyn Affecting the correct APP trafficking and sorting in neurons and the binding with clathrin and AP2 when activated [69]
Tyrosine 687 Tyrosine kinase Retaining APP in ER and TGN and decreasing its turnover rate; reducing Aβ formation when activated [70,71]
Tyrosine 653 N.D. N.D. [38]
Threonine 686 N.D. N.D. [38]
Serine 198 and serine 206 CK-1 and CK-2-like ectoprotein kinases Essential for the correct location of APP on the cell surface [72,73]

Abbreviations: 1 N.D: not defined in the literature; CaMKII: Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II; ROCK2: Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 2; BACE1: β-site APP-cleaving enzyme 1; APP: amyloid precursor protein; Aβ: amyloid-β; PKC: protein kinase C; ROCK1: Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 1; CDC2: p34cdc2 protein kinase; CDK5: cyclin-dependent kinase 5; sAPPβ; soluble APPβ; sAPPα: soluble APPα; GSK-3β: glycogen synthesis kinase-3β; JNK: c-Jun N-terminal kinase; JIP-3: JNK-interacting protein 3; DAPK1: death-associated protein kinase 1; LRRK2: leucine-rich repeat kinase 2; AICD: APP intracellular domain; NGF: nerve growth factor; ER: endoplasmic reticulum; TGN: trans-Golgi network; CK: casein kinase.