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| The
amyloid-beta peptide is a 40-42 amino acid neuropeptide generated
when the beta-amyloid precursor protein in cleaved
at the cell transmembrane region.
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| Cu(II)
and Zn(II)have been implicated in the misfolding of A-beta in vivo.
Ab binds Cu(II) via three Histidine residues (His6, 13 and 14),
and our studies also implicate the N-terminus as the fourth ligand
in a square planar complex (1)
 (1) C. D. Syme, R. C. Nadal, S. E. J. Rigby and J.H. Viles, Journal of Biological Chemistry (2004), 279, 18169-18177 |
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