Furin mediates enhanced production of fibrillogenic ABri peptides in familial British dementia

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 984-988

  Kim, Seong Hun ^a   Wang, Rong ^b   Gordon, David J ^a   Bass, Joseph ^a   Steiner, Donald F ^a   Lynn, David G ^a   Thinakaran, Gopal ^a   Meredith, Stephen C ^a   Sisodia, Sangram S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; FURIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; DEMENTIA; FURIN; GREAT BRITAIN; HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROFIBRILS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SUBTILISINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033352083     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14783     Document Type: Article

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