The substrate repertoire of γ-secretase/presenilin

G Güner, SF Lichtenthaler - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The intramembrane protease γ-secretase is a hetero-tetrameric protein complex with
presenilin as the catalytic subunit and cleaves its membrane protein substrates within their …

Proteolytic ectodomain shedding of membrane proteins in mammals—hardware, concepts, and recent developments

SF Lichtenthaler, MK Lemberg, R Fluhrer - The EMBO journal, 2018‏ - embopress.org
Proteolytic removal of membrane protein ectodomains (ectodomain shedding) is a post‐
translational modification that controls levels and function of hundreds of membrane …

ADAM10 and ADAM17 promote SARS‐CoV‐2 cell entry and spike protein‐mediated lung cell fusion

G Jocher, V Grass, SK Tschirner, L Riepler… - EMBO …, 2022‏ - embopress.org
The severe‐acute‐respiratory‐syndrome‐coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is the causative
agent of COVID‐19, but host cell factors contributing to COVID‐19 pathogenesis remain only …

Trafficking and proteolytic processing of APP

C Haass, C Kaether… - Cold Spring …, 2012‏ - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Accumulations of insoluble deposits of amyloid β-peptide are major pathological hallmarks
of Alzheimer disease. Amyloid β-peptide is derived by sequential proteolytic processing from …

Staphylococcus aureus α-Toxin: Nearly a Century of Intrigue

BJ Berube, J Bubeck Wardenburg - Toxins, 2013‏ - mdpi.com
Staphylococcus aureus secretes a number of host-injurious toxins, among the most
prominent of which is the small β-barrel pore-forming toxin α-hemolysin. Initially named …

Metalloproteinases and their natural inhibitors in inflammation and immunity

R Khokha, A Murthy, A Weiss - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013‏ - nature.com
Over the past 50 years, steady growth in the field of metalloproteinase biology has shown
that the degradation of extracellular matrix components represents only a fraction of the …

[HTML][HTML] The canonical Notch signaling pathway: unfolding the activation mechanism

R Kopan, MXG Ilagan - Cell, 2009‏ - cell.com
Notch signaling regulates many aspects of metazoan development and tissue renewal.
Accordingly, the misregulation or loss of Notch signaling underlies a wide range of human …

Animal models of Alzheimer disease

FM LaFerla, KN Green - Cold Spring …, 2012‏ - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Significant insights into the function of genes associated with Alzheimer disease and related
dementias have occurred through studying genetically modified animals. Although none of …

The secretases: enzymes with therapeutic potential in Alzheimer disease

B De Strooper, R Vassar, T Golde - Nature reviews neurology, 2010‏ - nature.com
The amyloid hypothesis has yielded a series of well-validated candidate drug targets with
potential for the treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD). Three proteases that are involved in …

ADAM10 is the physiologically relevant, constitutive α‐secretase of the amyloid precursor protein in primary neurons

PH Kuhn, H Wang, B Dislich, A Colombo… - The EMBO …, 2010‏ - embopress.org
The amyloid precursor protein (APP) undergoes constitutive shedding by a protease activity
called α‐secretase. This is considered an important mechanism preventing the generation of …