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Generation and regulation of beta-amyloid peptide variants by neurons.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Nov 1998
Gouras G K, Xu H, Jovanovic J N, Buxbaum J D, Wang R, Greengard P, Relkin N R, Gandy S
Abstract excerpt
Studies of processing of the Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) have been performed to date mostly in continuous cell lines and indicate the existence of two principal metabolic pathways: the "beta-secretase" pathway, which generates beta-amyloid (A beta(1-40/42); approximately 4 kDa), and the "alpha-secretase" pathway, which generates a smaller fragment, the "p3" peptide (A beta(17-40/42);...
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