A protein precursor, also called a pro-protein or pro-peptide, is an inactive protein (or peptide) that can be turned into an active form by post-translational...
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Amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) is an integral membrane protein expressed in many tissues and concentrated in the synapses of neurons. It functions...
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Amyloid beta (redirect from Islet amyloid precursor protein)
with Alzheimer's disease. The peptides derive from the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which is cleaved by beta secretase and gamma secretase to yield...
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somitogenesis in the embryo. It also has an action on an amyloid precursor protein, which gives its probable role in the pathogenesis of FAD. Homologs...
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chemical compound preceding another in a metabolic pathway, such as a protein precursor. In 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in...
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(called an intein) is removed from a precursor protein with a ligation of C-terminal and N-terminal external proteins (called exteins) on both sides. The...
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Proteolysis (redirect from Protein degradation)
conversion of an inactive or non-functional protein to an active one. The precursor to the final functional form of protein is termed proprotein, and these proproteins...
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Glu-Val-Asn-Leu!Asp-Ala-Glu-Phe in the Swedish variant of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein. BACE2 is a close homolog of BACE1. Cerebral deposition of amyloid...
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Amyloid (redirect from Amyloid protein)
named α sheet has been proposed as the toxic constituent of amyloid precursor proteins, but this idea is not widely accepted at present. The name amyloid...
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transmembrane spanning glycoprotein amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP). Amyloid plaque Aβ protein species ends in residue 40 or 42, but it is suspected...
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