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Literature summary for 3.4.24.11 extracted from

  • Hafez, D.; Huang, J.Y.; Huynh, A.M.; Valtierra, S.; Rockenstein, E.; Bruno, A.M.; Lu, B.; DesGroseillers, L.; Masliah, E.; Marr, R.A.
    Neprilysin-2 is an important beta-amyloid degrading enzyme (2011), Am. J. Pathol., 178, 306-312.
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Mus musculus
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
NEP
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Mus musculus
neprilysin
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Mus musculus

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
malfunction in NEP/NEP2 double-knockout mice, amyloid-beta peptide levels are marginally increased (1.5 to 2fold), compared with NEP-/-/NEP2+/+ controls. Treatment of these double-knockout mice with phosphoramidon results in elevations of amyloid-beta peptide, suggesting that yet other NEP-like amyloid-beta peptide -degrading endopeptidases are contributing to amyloid-beta peptide catabolism Mus musculus