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ReviewJournal of molecular neuroscience : MN2016

Functions of the Alzheimer's Disease Protease BACE1 at the Synapse in the Central Nervous System.

Kathryn M Munro, Amelia Nash, Martina Pigoni, Stefan F Lichtenthaler, Jenny M Gunnersen

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Review in Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Discovery of an APP-selective BACE1 inhibitor for Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  14. Neuregulins in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021
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  16. Is It the Twilight of BACE1 Inhibitors?Current neuropharmacology · 2021
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  19. Expression of BACE1 in the Rat Carotid Body.Frontiers in physiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kathryn M MunroDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia. kathryn.munro@unimelb.edu.au.
Amelia NashDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.
Martina PigoniDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Munich, Germany.
Stefan F LichtenthalerDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Munich, Germany.
Jenny M GunnersenDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.
University of Melbourne · AUGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEMunich Cluster for Systems Neurology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhibition of the protease β-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is a promising treatment strategy for Alzheimer's disease, and a number of BACE inhibitors are currently progressing through clinical trials. The strategy aims to decrease production of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide from the amyloid precursor protein (APP), thus reducing or preventing Aβ toxicity. Over the last decade, it has become clear that BACE1 proteolytically cleaves a number of substrates in addition to APP. These substrates are not known to be involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease but have other roles in the developing and/or mature central nervous system. Consequently, BACE inhibition and knockout in mice results in synaptic and other neuronal dysfunctions and the key substrates responsible for these deficits are still being elucidated. Of the BACE1 substrates that have been validated to date, a number may contribute to the synaptic deficits seen with BACE blockade, including neuregulin 1, close homologue of L1 and seizure-related gene 6. It is important to understand the impact that BACE blockade may have on these substrates and other proteins detected in substrate screens and, if necessary, develop substrate-selective BACE inhibitors.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAmyloid Precursor Protein SecretasesAnimalsAspartic Acid EndopeptidasesBrainHumansProteolysisSynapsesAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAmyloid Precursor Protein SecretasesAspartic Acid EndopeptidasesBace1 protein, mouseAlzheimer’s diseaseBACE1BACE inhibitorsSez6Synapse

Identifiers

PMID27456313
PMCPMC5059407
OpenAlexW2506653518

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