The Role of the Peptidyl-Prolyl cis/trans Isomerase Pin1 in The Occurrence and Development of Alzheimer's Disease

分类： 生物学 >> 生物物理学 >> 生物物理、生物化学与分子生物学 提交时间： 2016-05-12

Wang Jing-Zhang Hou Hai Li Xue-Mei

摘要： Pin1 is the only known cis-trans isomerase that recognizes pThr/pSer-Pro in proteins, relevant to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer' s disease (AD). Pin1 regulates the structures and functions of some molecules that are related to AD, inhibits the main AD pathological characteristics such as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), senile plaques (SPs), and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), promotes the differentiation of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) to neurons, and to some extent prevents the occurrence and development of AD. Meanwhile, Pin1 dysfunction in vivo may be involved in the pathogenesis of AD. Nevertheless, whether Pin1 could be a therapeutic target for the prevention and treatment of AD still needs to be verified clinically. Considering of the poor efficacy of AD medicines that target each single molecule in brain, the "combined multiple-target medicine" focusing on Pin1 and other related molecules may be a therapeutic strategy for AD in the future.

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