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Identification of a novel family of presenilin homologues.
Human molecular genetics - 1 May 2002
Ponting Chris P, Hutton Mike, Nyborg Andrew, Baker Matthew, Jansen Karen, Golde Todd E
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Presenilin 1 and presenilin 2 are polytopic membrane proteins, whose genes are mutated in some individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Presenilins have been shown to influence limited proteolysis of amyloid beta protein precursor (APP), Notch and ErbB4, and have been proposed to be gamma-secretases that perform the terminal cleavage of APP. In this model, two conserved and apparently intramembranous aspartic acids...
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