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    Gamma secretase is a multi-subunit protease complex, an integral membrane protein, that cleaves single-pass transmembrane proteins at residues within...
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    survival, and post-injury repair. In Alzheimer's disease, gamma secretase and beta secretase act together in a proteolytic process which causes APP to...
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  • of the gamma secretase complex along with the catalytic subunit presenilin and the regulatory subunits nicastrin and PEN-2. The gamma-secretase complex...
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    amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which is cleaved by beta secretase and gamma secretase to yield Aβ in a cholesterol-dependent process and substrate...
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    Protein pigeon homolog also known as gamma-secretase activating protein (GSAP) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PION gene. The human PION...
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    fragments.[citation needed] Sequential cleavage by beta-secretase 1 (BACE) and gamma-secretase (γ-secretase) produces the amyloid-beta peptide fragment that...
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    transmembrane domain by γ-secretase releases the intracellular domain of APP and produces amyloid-β. Since gamma-secretase cleaves APP closer to the cell...
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    processed by beta secretase and gamma secretase. The alpha-secretase pathway is the predominant APP processing pathway. Thus, alpha-secretase cleavage precludes...
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    transmembrane proteins which constitute the catalytic subunits of the gamma-secretase intramembrane protease protein complex. They were first identified...
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    the PSEN1 gene. Presenilin-1 is one of the four core proteins in the gamma secretase complex, which is considered to play an important role in generation...
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    risk of recurrence appears to be lower. Nirogacestat, a selective gamma secretase inhibitor, was approved for medical use in the United States in November...
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    (presenilin enhancer 2), is a protein that is a regulatory component of the gamma secretase complex, a protease complex responsible for proteolysis of transmembrane...
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  • domain (NICD) and APP-CTfgamma: evidence for distinct intramembranous "gamma-secretase" activities". Neuromolecular Medicine. 1 (1): 43–54. doi:10.1385/NMM:1:1:43...
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  • endosomes, cleaved by beta-secretase (BACE), after which it moves back to the cell surface to be cleaved by gamma secretase thus releasing the Aβ peptide...
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    Nirogacestat (category Gamma secretase inhibitors)
    medication used for the treatment of desmoid tumors. It is a selective gamma secretase inhibitor that is taken by mouth. The most common side effects include...
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    studies identified that a modified version of imatinib can bind to gamma-secretase activating protein (GSAP). GSAP selectively increases the production...
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    Jagged and Delta, are sequentially processed by alpha-secretase and presenilin/gamma-secretase and release signaling fragments". The Journal of Biological...
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    RO4929097 (RG-4733) is a gamma secretase inhibitor being studied as an anti-cancer drug. Targeting gamma secretase inhibits NOTCH signaling, which is...
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    Cleavage by gamma secretase within the membrane-spanning domain after beta-secretase cleavage generates the amyloid-beta fragment; gamma secretase is a large...
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  • Nuclear Compton Telescope, a balloon-borne gamma-ray detector Nicastrin, a protein component of the gamma secretase enzyme complex Nocturnal clitoral tumescence...
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  • site. The discovery that caprolactam-type gamma-secretase inhibitors target the SPP subunit of the gamma-secretase, which has been implicated in Alzheimer's...
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    Steven Wagner began screening for a class of drugs that they termed "gamma secretase modulators (GSM)". GSM's reverse the Abeta42:Abeta40 ratio and thereby...
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    DAPT (chemical) (category Gamma secretase inhibitors)
    A.; Steiner, H.; Willem, M.; Bally-Cuif, L.; Haass, C. (2002). "A gamma-secretase inhibitor blocks Notch signaling in vivo and causes a severe neurogenic...
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    into secreted proteins by the actions of the plasma membrane protein gamma secretase. ApoE may be the signalling ligand responsible for ApoER2's role in...
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    and antibody production. The membrane bound BCMA can be cleaved by gamma secretase, resulting in sBCMA, and released into the blood. Serum BCMA is found...
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    included programs focused on small molecule inhibitors of beta secretase and gamma secretase, enzymes whose actions are thought to affect the accumulation...
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  • study, which features PBCAR269A in combination with nirogacestat, a gamma secretase inhibitor. In 2020, the FDA granted fast track designation to PBCAR269A...
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    new cells. Several Notch signaling pathway inhibitors, including the gamma secretase inhibitor LY3056480, are being studied for their potential ability...
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    enzymes: first, by beta secretase (or β-amyloid cleaving enzyme (BACE)) outside the membrane, and second, by gamma secretase (γ-secretase), an enzyme complex...
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  • protein Hemoglobin subunit gamma-1; see HBG1 Hemoglobin subunit gamma-2; see HBG2 Gamma secretase Laminin, gamma 1 Laminin, gamma 2 This disambiguation page...
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