A Basic Amino Acid in the Cytoplasmic Domain of Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Is Essential for Cleavage of APP at the α-Site*
Tomita S, Kirino Y, Suzuki T. A Basic Amino Acid in the Cytoplasmic Domain of Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Is Essential for Cleavage of APP at the α-Site*. Journal Of Biological Chemistry 1998, 273: 19304-19310. PMID: 9668120, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.30.19304.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAlzheimer's β-Amyloid Precursor ProteinΒ-amyloid precursor proteinAlzheimer's diseaseSecretion of Abeta40Beta-amyloid precursor proteinFamilial AD mutationsPrecursor proteinAPP cytoplasmic domainBeta-amyloid peptideAPP metabolismAD mutationsSporadic typeAbeta productionAberrant metabolismCTFbetaIntracellular accumulationBasic amino acidsAmino acid mutationsAmino acidsDiseaseSingle amino acid mutationNon-basic amino acidsMetabolismAcid mutationsCytoplasmic domain