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PLOS ONE
卷 7, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043926
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, DGSP from Ministerio de Sanidad, Politica Social e Igualdad [FIS 05/0912]
- DGSP of the Spanish National Health Ministry
- Spanish CIBERNED (Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas) network
The beta site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is the rate-limiting beta-secretase enzyme in the amyloidogenic processing of APP and A beta formation, and therefore it has a prominent role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Recent evidence suggests that the prion protein (PrP) interacts directly with BACE1 regulating its beta-secretase activity. Moreover, PrP has been proposed as the cellular receptor involved in the impairment of synaptic plasticity and toxicity caused by Ab oligomers. Provided that common pathophysiologic mechanisms are shared by Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) diseases, we investigated for the first time to the best of our knowledge a possible association of a common synonymous BACE1 polymorphism (rs638405) with sporadic CJD (sCJD). Our results indicate that BACE1 C-allele is associated with an increased risk for developing sCJD, mainly in PRNP M129M homozygous subjects with early onset. These results extend the very short list of genes (other than PRNP) involved in the development of human prion diseases; and support the notion that similar to AD, in sCJD several loci may contribute with modest overall effects to disease risk. These findings underscore the interplay in both pathologies of APP, A beta oligomers, ApoE, PrP and BACE1, and suggest that aging and perhaps vascular risk factors may modulate disease pathologies in part through these key players.
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