Thimet oligopeptidase cleaves the full-length Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein at a β-secretase cleavage site in COS cells

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 235-242

  Koike, Hisashi ^a   Seki, Hiroaki ^a   Kouchi, Zen ^a   Ito, Masayuki ^a   Kinouchi, Tadatoshi ^a   Tomioka, Shigeo ^a   Sorimachi, Hiroyuki ^a   Saido, Takaomi C ^b   Maruyama, Kei ^c   Suzuki, Koichi ^a   Ishiura, Shoichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; APP metabolism; Metalloprotease; Thimet oligopeptidase; secretase

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; THIMET OLIGOPEPTIDASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RABBIT;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032859883     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022428     Document Type: Article

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