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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2012

Lipid rafts and Alzheimer's disease: protein-lipid interactions and perturbation of signaling.

David A Hicks, Natalia N Nalivaeva, Anthony J Turner

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers.

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104citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

104 citing papers in PubMed, 204 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

David A HicksSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds Leeds, UK.
Natalia N Nalivaeva
Anthony J Turner
University of Leeds · GBInstitute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid rafts are membrane domains, more ordered than the bulk membrane and enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids. They represent a platform for protein-lipid and protein-protein interactions and for cellular signaling events. In addition to their normal functions, including membrane trafficking, ligand binding (including viruses), axonal development and maintenance of synaptic integrity, rafts have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Lipid rafts promote interaction of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) with the secretase (BACE-1) responsible for generation of the amyloid β peptide, Aβ. Rafts also regulate cholinergic signaling as well as acetylcholinesterase and Aβ interaction. In addition, such major lipid raft components as cholesterol and GM1 ganglioside have been directly implicated in pathogenesis of the disease. Perturbation of lipid raft integrity can also affect various signaling pathways leading to cellular death and AD. In this review, we discuss modulation of APP cleavage by lipid rafts and their components, while also looking at more recent findings on the role of lipid rafts in signaling events.

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AChEAICDAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid β peptideAPPBACE-1cholesterolneprilysin

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PMID22737128
PMCPMC3381238
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