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Yeast as a tractable genetic system for functional studies of the insulin-degrading enzyme.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 29 Jul 2005
Kim Seonil, Lapham Andrea N, Freedman Christopher G K, Reed Tiffany L, Schmidt Walter K
Abstract excerpt
We have developed yeast as an expression and genetic system for functional studies of the insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), which cleaves and inactivates certain small peptide molecules, including insulin and the neurotoxic A beta peptide. We show that heterologously expressed rat IDE is enzymatically active, as judged by the ability of IDE-containing yeast extracts to cleave insulin in vitro. We also show that IDE...
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