The amyloid-beta precursor protein: integrating structure with biological function.
Proteolytic processing of the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) generates the Abeta amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease. The biological function of APP itself remains, however, unclear. In the current review, we study in detail the different subdomains of APP and try to assign functional significance to particular structures identified in the protein.
Reinhard
Constanze
C
Laboratory for Neuronal Cell Biology and Gene Transfer, Department of Human Genetics, Center for Human Genetics, KU Leuven and VIB, Leuven, Belgium.
Hébert
Sébastien S
SS
De Strooper
Bart
B
D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary / Q000502:physiology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor