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Patrick Fraering

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Processing of the synaptic cell adhesion molecule neurexin-3beta by Alzheimer disease alpha- and gamma-secretases

Patrick Fraering, Claude André Schweizer, Saoussen Ben Halima, Nathalie Bot

Neurexins (NRXNs) are synaptic cell adhesion molecules having essential roles in the assembly and maturation of synapses into fully functional units. Immunocytochemical and electrophysiological studies have shown that specific binding across the synaptic c ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2010

Novel gamma-secretase inhibitors uncover a common nucleotide-binding site in JAK3, SIRT2, and PS1

Patrick Fraering, Nikita Rudinskiy, Claude André Schweizer

Gamma-secretase is an intramembrane-cleaving protease responsible for the final proteolytic event in the production of the amyloid-beta peptides (Abeta) implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Inhibition of gamma-secretase activity is thus an attractive th ...

2010

Gene expression profiling in cells with enhanced gamma-secretase activity

Alexandra Marie-Isabelle Karoline Brigitte Magold, Patrick Fraering

BACKGROUND: Processing by gamma-secretase of many type-I membrane protein substrates triggers signaling cascades by releasing intracellular domains (ICDs) that, following nuclear translocation, modulate the transcription of different genes regulating a div ...

Public Library of Science2009

Cryoelectron microscopy structure of purified gamma-secretase at 12 A resolution

Lorène Aeschbach, Patrick Fraering, Hua Li

Gamma-secretase, an integral membrane protein complex, catalyzes the intramembrane cleavage of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) during the neuronal production of the amyloid beta-peptide. As such, the protease has emerged as a key target for develo ...

Elsevier2009

Rapid purification of active gamma-secretase, an intramembrane protease implicated in Alzheimer's disease

Lorène Aeschbach, Patrick Fraering, Hua Li

Gamma-secretase is an unconventional aspartyl protease that processes many type 1 membrane proteins within the lipid bilayer. Because its cleavage of amyloid-beta precursor protein generates the amyloid-beta protein (Abeta) of Alzheimer's disease, partiall ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Substrate-targeting gamma-secretase modulators

Patrick Fraering

Selective lowering of Abeta42 levels (the 42-residue isoform of the amyloid-beta peptide) with small-molecule gamma-secretase modulators (GSMs), such as some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, is a promising therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's disease ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of neurodegenerative diseases in humans, characterized by the progressive accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-beta peptides (Abeta) in brain regions subserving memory and cognition. These 39-43 amino acids lo ...

Bentham Science Publishers2007

Gamma-secretase is an intramembrane-cleaving aspartyl protease required for the normal development of metazoans because it processes Notch within cellular membranes to release its signaling domain. More than two dozen additional substrates of diverse funct ...

National Academy of Sciences2006

gamma-Secretase is an unusual protease with an intramembrane catalytic site that cleaves many type I membrane proteins, including the amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) precursor (APP) and the Notch receptor. Genetic and biochemical studies have identified four ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2005

Gpi17p does not stably interact with other subunits of glycosylphosphatidylinositol transamidase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Patrick Fraering

Homologues of Gpi8p, Gaa1p, Gpi16p, Gpi17p, and Cdc91p are essential components of the GPI transamidase complex that adds glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs 1) to newly synthesized proteins in the ER. In mammalian cells, these five subunits remain stably ...

2005