Three novel alternatively spliced isoforms of the human beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme (BACE) and their effect on amyloid beta-peptide production

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-12

  Tanahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Tabira, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid beta; Aspartic protease; Beta site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme; Endoglycosidase H; Glycosylation; Protease

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE; GLYCOSIDASE; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; EXON; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0035816492     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01912-7     Document Type: Article

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