Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

Physiology and pharmacology of amyloid precursor protein

Y Cho, HG Bae, E Okun, TV Arumugam… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is an evolutionarily conserved transmembrane protein and
a well-characterized precursor protein of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides, which accumulate in …

The many substrates of presenilin/γ-secretase

A Haapasalo, DM Kovacs - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2011 - content.iospress.com
The Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP) is cleaved by
α-, β-, and presenilin (PS)/γ-secretases through sequential regulated proteolysis. These …

Proteolytic processing of Alzheimer's β‐amyloid precursor protein

H Zhang, Q Ma, Y Zhang, H Xu - Journal of Neurochemistry …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2012) 120 (Suppl. 1), 9–21. Abstract β‐Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a
critical factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). APP undergoes post …

The regulation of microRNAs in Alzheimer's disease

X Kou, D Chen, N Chen - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs are small non-coding nucleic acids that are responsible for regulating the gene
expression by binding to the coding region and 3'and 5'un-translated region of target …

[HTML][HTML] Physiological roles of monomeric amyloid-β and implications for Alzheimer's disease therapeutics

H Jeong, H Shin, S Hong, YS Kim - Experimental neurobiology, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease (AD) progressively inflicts impairment of synaptic functions with notable
deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) as senile plaques within the extracellular space of the brain …

The importance of p53 pathway genetics in inherited and somatic cancer genomes

G Stracquadanio, X Wang, MD Wallace… - Nature reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Decades of research have shown that mutations in the p53 stress response pathway affect
the incidence of diverse cancers more than mutations in other pathways. However, most …

The amyloid precursor protein intracellular domain (AICD) as modulator of gene expression, apoptosis, and cytoskeletal dynamics—relevance for Alzheimer's disease

T Müller, HE Meyer, R Egensperger, K Marcus - Progress in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in 1987, extensive research has
been conducted analyzing the APP-derived β-amyloid (Aβ) which is found in massive …

Neprilysin and Aβ clearance: impact of the APP intracellular domain in NEP regulation and implications in Alzheimer's disease

MOW Grimm, J Mett, CP Stahlmann… - Frontiers in aging …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
One of the characteristic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an accumulation of
amyloid β (Aβ) leading to plaque formation and toxic oligomeric Aβ complexes. Besides the …