Modeling the β-secretase cleavage site and humanizing amyloid-beta precursor protein in rat and mouse to study Alzheimer’s disease
Abstract Background Three amino acid differences between rodent and human APP affect medically important features, including β-secretase cleavage of APP and Aβ peptide aggregation (De Strooper et al., EMBO J 14:4932-38, 1995; Ueno et al., Biochemistry 53:7523-30, 2014; Bush, 2003, Trends Neurosci 26...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-10-01
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Series: | Molecular Neurodegeneration |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13024-020-00399-z |