γ-Secretase is an intramembrane aspartyl protease that cleaves the C99 fragment of amyloid precursor protein to generate extracellular Aβ peptides. These peptides can oligomerize and aggregate to form amyloid plaque...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81371221 and 30700885) and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-11-1084).
The γ-secretase complex catalyzes the final cleavage step of amyloid β-protein precursor (APP) to generate amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, a pathogenic component of senile plaques in the brain of AIzhei- mer's disea...
Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common form of neurodegenerative disorder to cause dementia in the elderly.It afects millions of people worldwide and puts tremendous emotional and economic burden on afected famili...
Acknowledgements We thank Prof Bruce D HAMMOCK for providing the sEH inhibitor t-AUCB. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81070974 and No 81301905).
Aim: Trans-4-[4-(3-adamantan-1-yl-ureido)-cyclohexyloxy]-benzoic acid (t-AUCB) is a soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitor that suppresses glioblastoma cell growth in vitro. The aim of this study was to examine whet...
Background Brain dysfunction is a frequent complication of sepsis,usually defined as sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE).Although the Notch signaling pathway has been proven to be involved in both ischemia and ne...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and complex neurodegenerative disease in which the γ-secretase- mediated amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology plays an important role. We found that a multifunctional protein, β-...
Alzheimer's disease is the ultimate .scourge of mankind that haunts the ageing population and increas- ingly becomes the major health and social problem faced by our society. Alzheimer's disease (AD), described b...
the Natural Science Foundation of Bei-jing, No. 7073088
BACKGROUND: Chronic cerebral hypoxia and ischemia have been shown to be related to occurrence of sporadic Alzheimer's disease, and β- and y-secretase play an important role in the generation of β-amyloid protein. ...
Supplementary information is linked to the online version of the paper on the Cell Research website.Acknowledgments We thank Dr David Westaway (University of Alberta) for TgCRND8 mice, Dr David Baltimore (California Institute of Technology) for lentiviral constructs, Dr Raphael Kopan (Washington University) for the plasmid of myc-tagged NotchAE and Dr Johan Lundkvist (Karolinska Institutet) for the plasmid of Gal4-driven luciferase reporter gene, the plasmid of APP/CTFI3-GVP and NAE-GVP. We appreciate Shunmei Xin, Shan Chen and Xianglu Zeng for their technical assistance. We thank all members of the lab for sharing reagents and advice. This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2009ZX09103-684), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30621091, 30625014, 30623003, 30871285 and 90713047), the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Science and Technology (07PJ14099 and 09JC1416400), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007KIP204).
Dysregulation of β-site APP-cleaving enzyme (BACE) and/or γ-secretase leads to anomalous production of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) and contributes to the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Since these secreta...