Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Cooperation of N- and C-terminal substrate transmembrane domain segments in intramembrane proteolysis by γ-secretase

  • Nadine T. Werner,
  • Philipp Högel,
  • Gökhan Güner,
  • Walter Stelzer,
  • Manfred Wozny,
  • Marlene Aßfalg,
  • Stefan F. Lichtenthaler,
  • Harald Steiner,
  • Dieter Langosch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04470-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Deuterium/hydrogen exchange shows that conformational flexibility of the hybrid transmembrane domains (TMD) of amyloid precursor proteins plays a role in TMD cleavability by γ-secretase in vitro and in cellulo.