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PCSK9 is required for the disposal of non-acetylated intermediates of the nascent membrane protein BACE1.
EMBO reports - 1 Sept 2008
Jonas Mary Cabell, Costantini Claudio, Puglielli Luigi
Abstract excerpt
We have recently identified a new form of post-translational regulation of BACE1 (beta-site amyloid precursor protein (APP)-cleaving enzyme 1), a membrane protein that acts as the rate-limiting enzyme in the generation of the Alzheimer disease amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta). Specifically, BACE1 is transiently acetylated on seven lysine residues in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum/endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi...
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