Publications by Claude André Schweizer

Ferritin H gene deletion in the choroid plexus and forebrain results in hydrocephalus

Patrick Fraering, Claude André Schweizer

Ferritin H, the major iron storage protein, has essential functions in early embryonic development as well as in adult liver and intestine. To address the question whether ferritin H has similarly essential functions in the brain we used the Cre/loxP syste ...

Elsevier2014

Iron Recycling And Retention In Mice With A Ferritin H Deletion In Macrophages

Claude André Schweizer

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Generation of monoclonal antibody fragments binding the native γ-secretase complex for use in structural studies

Patrick Fraering, Lorène Aeschbach, Mitko Dimitrov, Claude André Schweizer

A detailed understanding of γ-secretase structure is crucially needed to elucidate its unique properties of intramembrane protein cleavage and to design therapeutic compounds for the safe treatment of Alzheimer's disease. γ-Secretase is an enzyme complex c ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

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

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