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A tale of two drug targets: the evolutionary history of BACE1 and BACE2

The beta amyloid (APP) cleaving enzyme (BACE1) has been a drug target for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) since 1999 with lead inhibitors now entering clinical trials. In 2011, the paralog, BACE2, became a new target for type II diabetes (T2DM) having been identified as a TMEM27 secretase regulating p...

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Autores principales: Southan, Christopher, Hancock, John M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24381583
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2013.00293