Insulin resistance exacerbates Alzheimer disease via multiple mechanisms

Z Wei, J Koya, SE Reznik - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that accounts for 60–70%
of dementia and is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The pathogenesis …

Insulin‐degrading enzyme: an ally against metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases

L Sousa, M Guarda, MJ Meneses… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Insulin‐degrading enzyme (IDE) function goes far beyond its known proteolytic role as a
regulator of insulin levels. IDE has a wide substrate promiscuity, degrading several proteins …

Anti-diabetic activity of insulin-degrading enzyme inhibitors mediated by multiple hormones

JP Maianti, A McFedries, ZH Foda, RE Kleiner, XQ Du… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Despite decades of speculation that inhibiting endogenous insulin degradation might treat
type-2 diabetes,, and the identification of IDE (insulin-degrading enzyme) as a diabetes …

Modulation of insulin sensitivity by insulin-degrading enzyme

CM González-Casimiro, B Merino… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is a highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed
metalloprotease that degrades insulin and several other intermediate-size peptides. For …

Polymerization of MIP‐1 chemokine (CCL3 and CCL4) and clearance of MIP‐1 by insulin‐degrading enzyme

M Ren, Q Guo, L Guo, M Lenz, F Qian… - The EMBO …, 2010 - embopress.org
Macrophage inflammatory protein‐1 (MIP‐1), MIP‐1α (CCL3) and MIP‐1β (CCL4) are
chemokines crucial for immune responses towards infection and inflammation. Both MIP‐1α …

Targeting insulin-degrading enzyme to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus

WJ Tang - Trends in endocrinology & metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) selectively degrades peptides, such as insulin, amylin, and
amyloid β (Aβ) that form toxic aggregates, to maintain proteostasis. IDE defects are linked to …

Multiple functions of insulin-degrading enzyme: a metabolic crosslight?

GR Tundo, D Sbardella, C Ciaccio… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is a ubiquitous zinc peptidase of the inverzincin family,
which has been initially discovered as the enzyme responsible for insulin catabolism; …

Preparation of selenoinsulin as a long‐lasting insulin analogue

K Arai, T Takei, M Okumura, S Watanabe… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic insulin analogues with a long lifetime are current drug targets for the therapy of
diabetic patients. The replacement of the interchain disulfide with a diselenide bridge, which …

Catalytic site inhibition of insulin-degrading enzyme by a small molecule induces glucose intolerance in mice

R Deprez-Poulain, N Hennuyer, D Bosc… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is a protease that cleaves insulin and other bioactive
peptides such as amyloid-β. Knockout and genetic studies have linked IDE to Alzheimer's …

Designed inhibitors of insulin-degrading enzyme regulate the catabolism and activity of insulin

MA Leissring, E Malito, S Hedouin, L Reinstatler… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Insulin is a vital peptide hormone that is a central regulator of glucose
homeostasis, and impairments in insulin signaling cause diabetes mellitus. In principle, it …