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Evidence That Tumor Necrosis Factor α Converting Enzyme Is Involved in Regulated α-Secretase Cleavage of the Alzheimer Amyloid Protein Precursor

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It is demonstrated that TACE (tumor necrosis factor α converting enzyme), a member of the ADAM family (a disintegrinand metalloprotease-family) of proteases, plays a central role in regulated α-cleavage of APP.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 1998-10-23 and is currently open access. It has received 912 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alpha secretase & Amyloid precursor protein secretase.

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A metalloproteinase disintegrin that releases tumour-necrosis factor-α from cells

TL;DR: The results should facilitate the development of therapeutically useful inhibitors of TNF-α release, and they indicate that an important function of adamalysins may be to shed cell-surface proteins.
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Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor-alpha.

TL;DR: The expression of recombinant TACE results in the production of functional enzyme that correctly processes precursor TNF-α to the mature form, and provides a readily available source of enzyme to help in the search for new anti-inflammatory agents that target the final processing stage of T NF-α production.
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Cleavage of amyloid beta peptide during constitutive processing of its precursor

TL;DR: Direct protein structural analyses showed that constitutive processing in human embryonic kidney 293 cells cleaves APP in the interior of the A Beta P, thus preventing A beta P deposition.
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Release of Alzheimer Amyloid Precursor Derivatives Stimulated by Activation of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors

TL;DR: Stimulation of m1 and m3 receptor subtypes with carbachol increased the basal release of APP derivatives within minutes of treatment, indicating that preexisting APP is released in response to receptor activation and protein kinases mediate neurotransmitter receptor-controlled APP processing.
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Amyloid beta-protein and the genetics of Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: The effort to decipher the mechanism of Alzheimer's disease has attracted the interest of investigators from diverse biological disciplines, including biochemistry, cell biology, molecular genetics, neuroscience, and structural biology, and it is increasingly likely that AD will become a premier example of the successful application of biological chemistry to the identification of rational therapeutic targets in a major human disease.
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