Expression of the Alzheimer protease BACE1 is suppressed via its 5′-untranslated region

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 620-625

  Lammich, Sven ^a   Schöbel, Susanne ^a   Zimmer, Ann Katrin ^a   Lichtenthaler, Stefan F ^a   Haass, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; BACE1; Neurodegeneration; Secretases

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BETA SECRETASE; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 4344681535     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400166     Document Type: Article

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