Amyloid β-Protein and the Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease

Gene Dose of Apolipoprotein E Type 4 Allele and the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease in Late Onset Families

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Segregation of a missense mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene with familial Alzheimer's disease

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The precursor of Alzheimer's disease amyloid A4 protein resembles a cell-surface receptor

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Apolipoprotein E: high-avidity binding to beta-amyloid and increased frequency of type 4 allele in late-onset familial Alzheimer disease.

Strittmatter, W. J., Saunders, A. M., Schmechel, D., Pericak-Vance, M., Enghild, J., Salvesen, G. S., & Roses, A. D. (1993) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.90.5.1977 · Cited by 4,268

Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

Sherrington, R., Rogaev, E. I., Liang, Y., Rogaeva, E. A., Levesque, G., Ikeda, M., Chi, H., Lin, C., Li, G., Holman, K., et al. (1995) · Nature · doi:10.1038/375754a0 · Cited by 4,051

Candidate gene for the chromosome 1 familial Alzheimer’s disease locus

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Alzheimer-type neuropathology in transgenic mice overexpressing V717F β-amyloid precursor protein

Games, D., Adams, D., Alessandrini, R., Barbour, R., Borthelette, P., Blackwell, C., Carr, T., Clemens, J., Donaldson, T., Gillespie, F., et al. (1995) · Nature · doi:10.1038/373523a0 · Cited by 2,516

Hydrogen peroxide mediates amyloid β protein toxicity

Behl, C. (1994) · Cell · doi:10.1016/0092-8674(94)90131-7 · Cited by 2,074

Familial Alzheimer's disease in kindreds with missense mutations in a gene on chromosome 1 related to the Alzheimer's disease type 3 gene

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The carboxy terminus of the .beta. amyloid protein is critical for the seeding of amyloid formation: Implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Jarrett, J. T., Berger, E. P., & Lansbury, P. T. (1993) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00069a001 · Cited by 2,022

Amyloid β-peptide is produced by cultured cells during normal metabolism

Haass, C., Schlossmacher, M. G., Hung, A. Y., Vigo-Pelfrey, C., Mellon, A., Ostaszewski, B. L., Lieberburg, I., Koo, E. H., Schenk, D., Teplow, D. B., et al. (1992) · Nature · doi:10.1038/359322a0 · Cited by 1,921

Protective effect of apolipoprotein E type 2 allele for late onset Alzheimer disease

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Brain interleukin 1 and S-100 immunoreactivity are elevated in Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease.

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Visualization of Aβ42(43) and Aβ40 in senile plaques with end-specific Aβ monoclonals: Evidence that an initially deposited species is Aβ42(43)

Iwatsubo, T., Odaka, A., Suzuki, N., Mizusawa, H., Nukina, N., & Ihara, Y. (1994) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/0896-6273(94)90458-8 · Cited by 1,774

Mutation of the β-amyloid precursor protein in familial Alzheimer's disease increases β-protein production

Citron, M., Oltersdorf, T., Haass, C., McConlogue, L., Hung, A. Y., Seubert, P., Vigo-Pelfrey, C., Lieberburg, I., & Selkoe, D. J. (1992) · Nature · doi:10.1038/360672a0 · Cited by 1,757

Isolation and quantification of soluble Alzheimer's β-peptide from biological fluids

Seubert, P., Vigo-Pelfrey, C., Esch, F., Lee, M., Dovey, H., Davis, D., Sinha, S., Schiossmacher, M., Whaley, J., Swindlehurst, C., et al. (1992) · Nature · doi:10.1038/359325a0 · Cited by 1,731

A pathogenic mutation for probable Alzheimer's disease in the APP gene at the N–terminus of β–amyloid

Mullan, M., Crawford, F., Axelman, K., Houlden, H., Lilius, L., Winblad, B., & Lannfelt, L. (1992) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng0892-345 · Cited by 1,513

Production of the Alzheimer Amyloid β Protein by Normal Proteolytic Processing

Shoji, M., Golde, T. E., Ghiso, J., Cheung, T. T., Estus, S., Shaffer, L. M., Cai, X.-D., McKay, D. M., Tintner, R., Frangione, B., et al. (1992) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1439760 · Cited by 1,447

Activation of microglial cells by β-amyloid protein and interferon-γ

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Early-onset Alzheimer's disease caused by mutations at codon 717 of the β-amyloid precursor protein gene

Chartier-Harlin, M.-C., Crawford, F., Houlden, H., Warren, A., Hughes, D., Fidani, L., Goate, A., Rossor, M., Roques, P., Hardy, J., et al. (1991) · Nature · doi:10.1038/353844a0 · Cited by 1,214

Release of Excess Amyloid β Protein from a Mutant Amyloid β Protein Precursor

Cai, X.-D., Golde, T. E., & Younkin, S. G. (1993) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.8424174 · Cited by 913

Amyloid-associated proteins α1-antichymotrypsin and apolipoprotein E promote assembly of Alzheimer β-protein into filaments

Ma, J., Yee, A., Brewer, H. B., Das, S., & Potter, H. (1994) · Nature · doi:10.1038/372092a0 · Cited by 871

β-Amyloid-mediated vasoactivity and vascular endothelial damage

Thomas, T., Thomas, G., McLendon, C., Sutton, T., & Mullan, M. (1996) · Nature · doi:10.1038/380168a0 · Cited by 703

β-Amyloid fibrils induce tau phosphorylation and loss of microtubule binding

Busciglio, J., Lorenzo, A., Yeh, J., & Yankner, B. A. (1995) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/0896-6273(95)90232-5 · Cited by 595

Sequence of Deposition of Heterogeneous Amyloid β-Peptides and APO E in Down Syndrome: Implications for Initial Events in Amyloid Plaque Formation

Lemere, C. A., Blusztajn, J. K., Yamaguchi, H., Wisniewski, T., Saido, T. C., & Selkoe, D. J. (1996) · Neurobiology of Disease · doi:10.1006/nbdi.1996.0003 · Cited by 584

Apolipoprotein E, Dementia, and Cortical Deposition of β-Amyloid Protein

Polvikoski, T., Sulkava, R., Haltia, M., Kainulainen, K., Vuorio, A., Verkkoniemi, A., Niinistö, L., Halonen, P., & Kontula, K. (1995) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199511093331902 · Cited by 493

Immunoglobulins and complement factors in senile plaques: An immunoperoxidase study

Eikelenboom, P., & Stam, F. C. (1982) · Acta Neuropathologica · doi:10.1007/bf00685397 · Cited by 454

Apolipoprotein E is a kinetic but not a thermodynamic inhibitor of amyloid formation: implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer disease

Evans, K. C., Berger, E. P., Cho, C. G., Weisgraber, K. H., & Lansbury, P. T. (1995) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.92.3.763 · Cited by 333

Quantitative analysis of senile plaques in Alzheimer disease: observation of log-normal size distribution and molecular epidemiology of differences associated with apolipoprotein E genotype and trisomy 21 (Down syndrome).

Hyman, B. T., West, H. L., Rebeck, G. W., Buldyrev, S. V., Mantegna, R. N., Ukleja, M., Havlin, S., & Stanley, H. E. (1995) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.92.8.3586 · Cited by 212

Co-expression of β-amyloid precursor protein (βAPP) and apolipoprotein E in cell culture: analysis of βAPP processing

Biere, A. L., Ostaszewski, B., Zhao, H., Gillespie, S., Younkin, S. G., & Selkoe, D. J. (1995) · Neurobiology of Disease · doi:10.1006/nbdi.1995.0019 · Cited by 52

The SREBP pathway: regulation of cholesterol metabolism by proteolysis of a membrane-bound transcription factor

Brown, M. S., & Goldstein, J. L. (1997) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80213-5 · Cited by 3,834

Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis

Brown, M. S., Ye, J., Rawson, R. B., & Goldstein, J. L. (2000) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80675-3 · Cited by 1,329

Mutant presenilins of Alzheimer's disease increase production of 42-residue amyloid β-protein in both transfected cells and transgenic mice

Citron, M., Westaway, D., Xia, W., Carlson, G., Diehl, T., Levesque, G., Johnson-wood, K., Lee, M., Seubert, P., Davis, A., et al. (1997) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm0197-67 · Cited by 1,271

Evidence of oxidative damage in Alzheimer's disease brain: central role for amyloid β-peptide

Butterfield, D. A., Drake, J., Pocernich, C., & Castegna, A. (2001) · Trends in Molecular Medicine · doi:10.1016/s1471-4914(01)02173-6 · Cited by 1,114

Constitutive and regulated α-secretase cleavage of Alzheimer’s amyloid precursor protein by a disintegrin metalloprotease

Lammich, S., Kojro, E., Postina, R., Gilbert, S., Pfeiffer, R., Jasionowski, M., Haass, C., & Fahrenholz, F. (1999) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.96.7.3922 · Cited by 975