Pin-pointing APP processing

Molecular Interventions

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 137-139

  Willnow, Thomas E ^a,b,c,d   Andersen, Olav M ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MDC   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ISOMERIZATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 33745684334     PISSN: 15340384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mi.6.3.4     Document Type: Short Survey

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