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    Helical ultrastructure of the metalloprotease meprin α in complex with a small molecule inhibitor

    The zinc-dependent metalloprotease meprin α is predominantly expressed in the brush border membrane of proximal tubules in the kidney and enterocytes in the small intestine and colon. In normal tissue homeosta...

    Charles Bayly-Jones, Christopher J. Lupton, Claudia Fritz in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Development of the clinical candidate PBD-C06, a humanized pGlu3-Aβ-specific antibody against Alzheimer’s disease with reduced complement activation

    In clinical trials with early Alzheimer’s patients, administration of anti-amyloid antibodies reduced amyloid deposits, suggesting that immunotherapies may be promising disease-modifying interventions against ...

    Thore Hettmann, Stephen D. Gillies, Martin Kleinschmidt in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Prion-like behaviour and tau-dependent cytotoxicity of pyroglutamylated amyloid-β

    It is shown that the formation of amyloid-β oligomers, one of the histopathological signatures of Alzheimer’s disease, can be triggered by small quantities of a specifically truncated and post-translationally ...

    Justin M. Nussbaum, Stephan Schilling, Holger Cynis, Antonia Silva, Eric Swanson in Nature (2012)