Publication Date:
2009-03-21
Description:
The gamma-secretase complex plays a role in Alzheimer's disease and cancer progression. The development of clinically useful inhibitors, however, is complicated by the role of the gamma-secretase complex in regulated intramembrane proteolysis of Notch and other essential proteins. Different gamma-secretase complexes containing different Presenilin or Aph1 protein subunits are present in various tissues. Here we show that these complexes have heterogeneous biochemical and physiological properties. Specific inactivation of the Aph1B gamma-secretase in a mouse Alzheimer's disease model led to improvements of Alzheimer's disease-relevant phenotypic features without any Notch-related side effects. The Aph1B complex contributes to total gamma-secretase activity in the human brain, and thus specific targeting of Aph1B-containing gamma-secretase complexes may help generate less toxic therapies for Alzheimer's disease.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740474/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740474/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Serneels, Lutgarde -- Van Biervliet, Jerome -- Craessaerts, Katleen -- Dejaegere, Tim -- Horre, Katrien -- Van Houtvin, Tine -- Esselmann, Hermann -- Paul, Sabine -- Schafer, Martin K -- Berezovska, Oksana -- Hyman, Bradley T -- Sprangers, Ben -- Sciot, Raf -- Moons, Lieve -- Jucker, Mathias -- Yang, Zhixiang -- May, Patrick C -- Karran, Eric -- Wiltfang, Jens -- D'Hooge, Rudi -- De Strooper, Bart -- AG 13579/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- AG026593/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P01 AG015379/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P01 AG015379-110009/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P01AG015379/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG026593/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG026593-01A1/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01AG026593/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 May 1;324(5927):639-42. doi: 10.1126/science.1171176. Epub 2009 Mar 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department for Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB, KULeuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19299585" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alzheimer Disease/drug therapy/*metabolism
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Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases/antagonists &
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inhibitors/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Amyloid beta-Peptides/analysis/chemistry/*metabolism
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Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/metabolism
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Animals
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Brain/*metabolism
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Disease Models, Animal
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Endopeptidases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Female
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Humans
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Maze Learning
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Membrane Proteins/metabolism
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Memory
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Mice
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Neurons/metabolism
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Peptide Fragments/analysis/metabolism
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Peptide Hydrolases/metabolism
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Presenilin-1/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism
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Receptor, Notch1/metabolism
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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