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Alzheimer's disease associated presenilin-1 holoprotein and its 18-20 kDa C-terminal fragment are death substrates for proteases of the caspase family.
Biochemistry - 24 Feb 1998
Grunberg J, Walter J, Loetscher H, Deuschle U, Jacobsen H, Haass C
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Mutations in the presenilin (PS) genes are linked to early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). PS-1 proteins are proteolytically processed by an unknown protease leading to the formation of two stable fragments of approximately 30 and approximately 20 kDa [Thinakaran, G., et al. (1996) Neur...
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