Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of β-secretase

MA Faghihi, F Modarresi, AM Khalil, DE Wood… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Recent efforts have revealed that numerous protein-coding messenger RNAs have natural
antisense transcript partners, most of which seem to be noncoding RNAs. Here we identify a …

[HTML][HTML] Attenuated ability of BACE1 to cleave the amyloid precursor protein via silencing long noncoding RNA BACE1‑AS expression

TE Liu, Y Huang, J Chen, H Chi… - Molecular …, 2014 - spandidos-publications.com
Although large numbers of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) expressed in the mammalian
nervous system have been detected, their functions and mechanisms of regulation remain to …

Targeting BACE1 with siRNAs ameliorates Alzheimer disease neuropathology in a transgenic model

O Singer, RA Marr, E Rockenstein, L Crews… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
In Alzheimer disease, increased β-secretase (BACE1) activity has been associated with
neurodegeneration and accumulation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) products. Thus …

BACE1 suppression by RNA interference in primary cortical neurons

SC Kao, AM Krichevsky, KS Kosik, LH Tsai - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2004 - ASBMB
Extracellular deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregates in the brain represents one of the
histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ peptides are generated from …

The emerging roles of the β-secretase BACE1 and the long non-coding RNA BACE1-AS in human diseases: a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and cancer

A Sayad, S Najafi, BM Hussen, ST Abdullah… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The β-Secretase (BACE1) is widely studied to be particularly involved in amyloid deposition,
a process known as the pathogenic pathway in neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore …

Knockdown of BACE1‑AS by siRNA improves memory and learning behaviors in Alzheimer's disease animal model

W Zhang, H Zhao, Q Wu, W Xu… - Experimental and …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that causes
progressive damage to neurons. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that long non …

Translational regulation of BACE‐1 expression in neuronal and non‐neuronal cells

D De Pietri Tonelli, M Mihailovich… - Nucleic acids …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
As the main beta‐secretase of the central nervous system, BACE‐1 is a key protein in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Excessive expression of the protein might cause an …

BACE1 (β-secretase) knockout mice do not acquire compensatory gene expression changes or develop neural lesions over time

Y Luo, B Bolon, MA Damore, D Fitzpatrick, H Liu… - Neurobiology of …, 2003 - Elsevier
The formation of Alzheimer's Aβ peptide is initiated when the amyloid precursor protein
(APP) is cleaved by the enzyme β-secretase (BACE1); inhibition of this cleavage has been …

Loss of microRNA cluster miR-29a/b-1 in sporadic Alzheimer's disease correlates with increased BACE1/β-secretase expression

SS Hébert, K Horré, L Nicolaï… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Although the role of APP and PSEN genes in genetic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases is well
established, fairly little is known about the molecular mechanisms affecting Aβ generation in …

High β-secretase activity elicits neurodegeneration in transgenic mice despite reductions in amyloid-β levels: implications for the treatment of Alzheimer disease

E Rockenstein, M Mante, M Alford, A Adame… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) are widely presumed to play a causal role in Alzheimer disease.
Release of Aβ from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) requires proteolysis by the β-site …