CLEAVAGE OF AMYLOID-BETA PEPTIDE DURING CONSTITUTIVE PROCESSING OF ITS PRECURSOR

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作者
ESCH, FS [1 ]
KEIM, PS [1 ]
BEATTIE, EC [1 ]
BLACHER, RW [1 ]
CULWELL, AR [1 ]
OLTERSDORF, T [1 ]
MCCLURE, D [1 ]
WARD, PJ [1 ]
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[1] ELI LILLY INT CORP,LILLY CORP CTR,INDIANAPOLIS,IN 46285
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10.1126/science.2111583
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The amyloid β peptide (AβP) is a small fragment of the much larger, broadly distributed amyloid precursor protein (APP). Abundant AβP deposition in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease suggests that altered APP processing may represent a key pathogenic event. Direct protein structural analyses showed that constitutive processing in human embryonic kidney 293 cells cleaves APP in the interior of the AβP, thus preventing AβP deposition. A defciency of this processing event may ultimately prove to be the etiological event in Alzheimer's disease that gives rise to senile plaque formation.
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