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Parkin promotes intracellular Abeta1-42 clearance.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 2009
Burns Mark P, Zhang Lihua, Rebeck G William, Querfurth Henry W, Moussa Charbel E-H
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are common neurodegenerative diseases that may share some underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis. Abeta(1-42) fragments are found intracellularly, and extracellularly as amyloid plaques, in Alzheimer's disease and in dementia with Lewy Bodies. Parkin is an E3-ubiquitin ligase involved in proteasomal degradation of intracellular proteins. Mutations in parkin, which result...
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