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Cellular mechanisms of beta-amyloid production and secretion.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Sept 1999
Sinha S, Lieberburg I
Abstract excerpt
The major constituent of senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease is a 42-aa peptide, referred to as beta-amyloid (Abeta). Abeta is generated from a family of differentially spliced, type-1 transmembrane domain (TM)-containing proteins, called APP, by endoproteolytic processing. The major, relatively ubiquitous pathway of APP metabolism in cell culture involves cleavage by alpha-secretase, which cleaves within the...
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