Notch inhibitors for cancer treatment

I Espinoza, L Miele - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
Notch signaling is an evolutionarily conserved cell signaling pathway involved in cell fate
during development, stem cell renewal and differentiation in postnatal tissues. Roles for …

Hypoxia/ischemia activate processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein: impact of vascular dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

A Salminen, A Kauppinen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with deficiencies in cerebrovascular functions, eg
reduced cerebral blood flow and capillary amyloid angiopathy, both of which are evident …

[HTML][HTML] Sampling the conformational space of the catalytic subunit of human γ-secretase

X Bai, E Rajendra, G Yang, Y Shi, SHW Scheres - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Human γ-secretase is an intra-membrane protease that cleaves many different substrates.
Aberrant cleavage of Notch is implicated in cancer, while abnormalities in cutting amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Nicastrin functions as a γ-secretase-substrate receptor

S Shah, SF Lee, K Tabuchi, YH Hao, C Yu, Q LaPlant… - Cell, 2005 - cell.com
Summary γ-secretase catalyzes the intramembrane cleavage of amyloid precursor protein
(APP) and Notch after their extracellular domains are shed by site-specific proteolysis …

Folding of helical membrane proteins: the role of polar, GxxxG-like and proline motifs

A Senes, DE Engel, WF DeGrado - Current opinion in structural biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Helical integral membrane proteins share several structural determinants that are widely
conserved across their universe. The discovery of common motifs has furthered our …

GxxxG motifs within the amyloid precursor protein transmembrane sequence are critical for the etiology of Aβ42

LM Munter, P Voigt, A Harmeier, D Kaden… - The EMBO …, 2007 - embopress.org
Processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β‐and γ‐secretases leads to the
generation of amyloid‐β (Aβ) peptides with varying lengths. Particularly Aβ42 contributes to …

Notch signaling in breast cancer: From pathway analysis to therapy

BM Krishna, S Jana, J Singhal, D Horne, S Awasthi… - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
The Notch signaling pathway, which is highly conserved from sea urchins to humans, plays
an important role in cell-differentiation, survival, proliferation, stem-cell renewal, and …

Novel research horizons for presenilins and γ-secretases in cell biology and disease

B De Strooper, W Annaert - Annual review of cell and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Presenilins are the catalytic subunits of larger tetrameric γ-secretase complexes. The
degradome of these aspartyl proteases consists of at least 60 different substrates. γ …

[HTML][HTML] Hidradenitis suppurativa: a perspective on genetic factors involved in the disease

C Moltrasio, PM Tricarico, M Romagnuolo, AV Marzano… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease of the pilosebaceous
unit, clinically consisting of painful nodules, abscesses, and sinus tracts mostly in, but not …

Assembly, trafficking and function of γ-secretase

C Kaether, C Haass, H Steiner - Neurodegenerative diseases, 2006 - karger.com
Abstract γ-Secretase catalyzes the final cleavage of the β-amyloid precursor protein to
generate amyloid-β peptide, the principal component of amyloid plaques in the brains of …