[HTML][HTML] Making the final cut: pathogenic amyloid-β peptide generation by γ-secretase

H Steiner, A Fukumori, S Tagami, M Okochi - Cell Stress, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimers disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease of the elderly
population. Genetic evidence strongly suggests that aberrant generation and/or clearance of …

Learning by failing: ideas and concepts to tackle γ-secretases in Alzheimer's disease and beyond

B De Strooper… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
γ-Secretases are a group of widely expressed, intramembrane-cleaving proteases involved
in many physiological processes. Their clinical relevance comes from their involvement in …

Substrate recruitment of γ‐secretase and mechanism of clinical presenilin mutations revealed by photoaffinity mapping

A Fukumori, H Steiner - The EMBO journal, 2016 - embopress.org
Intramembrane proteases execute fundamental biological processes ranging from crucial
signaling events to general membrane proteostasis. Despite the availability of structural …

Generating conformation-specific synthetic antibodies to trap proteins in selected functional states

M Paduch, A Koide, S Uysal, SS Rizk, S Koide… - Methods, 2013 - Elsevier
A set of phage display sorting strategies and validation methodologies are presented that
are capable of producing high performance synthetic antibodies (sABs) with customized …

[HTML][HTML] Complex regulation of γ-secretase: from obligatory to modulatory subunits

N Gertsik, D Chiu, YM Li - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
γ-Secretase is a four subunit, 19-pass transmembrane enzyme that cleaves amyloid
precursor protein (APP), catalyzing the formation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides that form …

Physiological and pathological roles of the γ-secretase complex

CM Carroll, YM Li - Brain research bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Gamma-secretase (GS) is an enzyme complex that cleaves numerous substrates, and it is
best known for cleaving amyloid precursor protein (APP) to form amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides …

[HTML][HTML] Ensemble cryoEM elucidates the mechanism of insulin capture and degradation by human insulin degrading enzyme

Z Zhang, WG Liang, LJ Bailey, YZ Tan, H Wei, A Wang… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Insulin degrading enzyme (IDE) plays key roles in degrading peptides vital in type two
diabetes, Alzheimer's, inflammation, and other human diseases. However, the process …

The dynamic conformational landscape of γ-secretase

N Elad, B De Strooper, S Lismont… - Journal of cell …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The structure and function of the γ-secretase proteases are of great interest because of their
crucial roles in cellular and disease processes. We established a novel purification protocol …

Conformational states and recognition of amyloidogenic peptides of human insulin-degrading enzyme

LA McCord, WG Liang, E Dowdell… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) selectively degrades the monomer of amyloidogenic
peptides and contributes to clearance of amyloid β (Aβ). Thus, IDE retards the progression of …

Recombinant antibodies to histone post-translational modifications

T Hattori, JM Taft, KM Swist, H Luo, H Witt, M Slattery… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Variability in the quality of antibodies to histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) is a
widely recognized hindrance in epigenetics research. Here, we produced recombinant …