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Many neuronal and behavioral impairments in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease are independent of caspase cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 6 Jan 2010
Harris Julie A, Devidze Nino, Halabisky Brian, Lo Iris, Thwin Myo T, Yu Gui-Qiu, Bredesen Dale E, Masliah Eliezer, Mucke Lennart
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies suggested that cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) at aspartate residue 664 by caspases may play a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Mutation of this site (D664A) prevents caspase cleavage and the generation of the C-terminal APP fragments C31 and Jcasp, which have been proposed to mediate amyloid-beta (Abeta) neurotoxicity. Here we compared human APP transgenic...
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