Letter to the EditorAlzheimer disease controls cancer — Concerning the apoptogenic interaction of cell membrane-standing type-1 VDAC and amyloid peptides via GxxxG motifs
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A hypothesis tries to explain why patients who suffer from Alzheimer Disease show less cancer development. Accordingly the interaction of amyloid peptides, cut from amyloid precursor protein and shed to cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma, with N-terminal stretches of type-1 VDAC, the voltage sensor of the channel, is thought to show double effect: on the one hand, the peptides induce apoptosis thus increasing numbers of cell deaths at critical points of the brain over time and worsening
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According to an impressive recent study C-terminal parts of Bcl-xL, cut from the molecule by caspases, mediate ischemia-induced neuronal deaths in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons, a process going with cognitive deficits [30]. This makes me ask if caspases after ichemia, by whatever mechanism, work as increased γ-secretase BACE1 does in hypo-metabolic neurons after sensory deprivation, here finally ending in Alzheimer Disease [22], [23].
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