The histidine composition of the amyloid-β domain, but not the E1 copper binding domain, modulates β-secretase processing of amyloid-β protein precursor in Alzheimer's disease.

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Amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP) proteolysis by β- and γ-secretases generates neurotoxic amyloid-β (Aβ)-peptides in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have investigated the role of histidine residues within the extracellular E1 copper binding and Aβ domains of AβPP in its proteolysis. By stably expressing histidine to alanine AβPP mutant constructs in SH-SY5Y cells, we show that mutations in the E1 copper binding...

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