Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Effects of presenilin-1 familial Alzheimer’s disease mutations on γ-secretase activation for cleavage of amyloid precursor protein

  • Hung N. Do,
  • Sujan Devkota,
  • Apurba Bhattarai,
  • Michael S. Wolfe,
  • Yinglong Miao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04539-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) simulations and biochemical experiments in E.Coli provide mechanistic insight into how Presenilin-1 familial Alzheimer’s disease mutations affect structural dynamics and enzyme-substrate interactions of γ-secretase and APP