3lnk

Structural highlights

Function

[BACE1_HUMAN] Responsible for the proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Cleaves at the N-terminus of the A-beta peptide sequence, between residues 671 and 672 of APP, leads to the generation and extracellular release of beta-cleaved soluble APP, and a corresponding cell-associated C-terminal fragment which is later released by gamma-secretase.^{[1] [2]}

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

See Also

• Beta secretase

References

1. ↑ Lin X, Koelsch G, Wu S, Downs D, Dashti A, Tang J. Human aspartic protease memapsin 2 cleaves the beta-secretase site of beta-amyloid precursor protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Feb 15;97(4):1456-60. PMID:10677483
2. ↑ Okada H, Zhang W, Peterhoff C, Hwang JC, Nixon RA, Ryu SH, Kim TW. Proteomic identification of sorting nexin 6 as a negative regulator of BACE1-mediated APP processing. FASEB J. 2010 Aug;24(8):2783-94. doi: 10.1096/fj.09-146357. Epub 2010 Mar 30. PMID:20354142 doi:10.1096/fj.09-146357
3. ↑ Cumming J, Babu S, Huang Y, Carrol C, Chen X, Favreau L, Greenlee W, Guo T, Kennedy M, Kuvelkar R, Le T, Li G, McHugh N, Orth P, Ozgur L, Parker E, Saionz K, Stamford A, Strickland C, Tadesse D, Voigt J, Zhang L, Zhang Q. Piperazine sulfonamide BACE1 inhibitors: design, synthesis, and in vivo characterization. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 May 1;20(9):2837-42. Epub 2010 Mar 12. PMID:20347593 doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.03.050