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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Main Authors: Christopher eSouthan, John eHancock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00293/full