• 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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    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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  • Protein targeting or protein sorting is the biological mechanism by which proteins are transported to their appropriate destinations within or outside...
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    is a small protein, most often 40 or 42 amino acids in length, that is released from a longer parent protein called the Aβ-precursor protein (APP). APP...
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  • is a large genetic component of AD, with mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP), Apolipoprotein E APOE), presenilin 1 (PSEN1), bridging Integrator...
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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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    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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    PEN-2 (category Proteins)
    proteolysis of transmembrane proteins such as the Notch protein and amyloid precursor protein (APP). The gamma secretase complex consists of PEN-2, APH-1...
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    Amyloid beta is a fragment from a larger protein called amyloid precursor protein (APP), a transmembrane protein that penetrates through the neuron's membrane...
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  • Amyloidosis (category Protein folding)
    mutations in the precursor protein.[medical citation needed] Other forms are due to different diseases causing overabundant or abnormal protein production –...
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    a longer protein that is embedded in the cell membrane. Among other roles in the cell, secretases act on the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) to cleave...
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    diseases, atherosclerosis, and cancer. The LRP1 gene encodes a 600 kDa precursor protein that is processed by furin in the trans-Golgi complex, resulting in...
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    motors, the kinesins, has been identified as the amyloid precursor protein (APP), the parent protein that produces the senile plaques found in Alzheimer's...
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    important role in generation of amyloid beta (Aβ) from amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP). Accumulation of amyloid beta is associated with the onset of...
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    misalignment of broken axon microtubules, as well as tau protein and amyloid precursor protein (APP) deposition. Lesions typically are found in the white...
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    Endorphin precursors are primarily produced in the pituitary gland. All three types of endorphins are fragments of the precursor protein proopiomelanocortin...
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    Bovine serum albumin (category Blood proteins)
    full-length BSA precursor polypeptide is 607 amino acids (AAs) in length. An N-terminal 18-residue signal peptide is cut off from the precursor protein upon secretion...
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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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    misprocessing of amyloid precursor protein (APP). The result of this abnormal processing is the accumulation of fragments of this protein, called amyloid β (Aβ)...
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    Growth factor-like domain (category Protein stubs)
    within larger proteins, GFLD regions commonly bind calcium ions. A subtype present in the N-terminal region of the amyloid precursor protein is a member...
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  • and updating web resources Acute-phase protein, a class of proteins Amyloid-beta precursor protein, a protein Atactic polypropylene, a hot-melt adhesive...
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    precursor protein from the OXT gene. This precursor protein also includes the oxytocin carrier protein neurophysin I. The inactive precursor protein is...
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    amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) and presenilins PSEN1 and PSEN2. Most mutations in the APP and presenilin genes increase the production of a small protein called...
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    being evaluated to treat early Alzheimer's disease. It is an amyloid precursor protein antagonist. "Valiltramiprosate - Alzheon". AdisInsight. Springer Nature...
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    TAC1 (category Precursor proteins)
    (abbreviated PPT-1, PPT-I, or PPT-A), is a precursor protein that in humans is encoded by the TAC1 gene. The protein has four isoforms—alpha-, beta-, gamma-...
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