A new aspartyl protease on 21q22.3, BACE2, is highly similar to Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein β-secretase

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 177-184

  Solans, A ^a   Estivill, X ^a   De La Luna, Susana ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BETA SECRETASE; GENE PRODUCT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACE 2 GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 21Q; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033819772     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015608     Document Type: Article

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