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SUBMITTER: Ezpeleta J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6672003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190801 1
The presence of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques in the brain of some individuals with Creutzfeldt-Jakob or Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinker diseases suggests that pathogenic prions (PrP<sup>Sc</sup>) would have stimulated the production and deposition of Aβ peptides. We here show in prion-infected neurons and mice that deregulation of the PDK1-TACE α-secretase pathway reduces the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) α-cleavage in favor of APP β-processing, leading to Aβ40/42 accumulation. Aβ predominates as ...[more]