A Tale of Two Drug Targets: The Evolutionary History of BACE1 and BACE2
The beta amyloid (APP) cleaving enzyme (BACE1) has been a drug target for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) since 1999 with lead inhibitors now entering clinical trials. In 2011, the paralogue, BACE2, became a new target for type II diabetes (T2DM) having been identified as a TMEM27 secretase regula...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Genetics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00293/full |