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Dávid Péter Kovács

Graduate Student, University of Cambridge
Verified email at cam.ac.uk
Cited by 689

Alzheimer's disease: the cholesterol connection

L Puglielli, RE Tanzi, DM Kovacs - Nature neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
A hallmark of all forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an abnormal accumulation of the β-amyloid
protein (Aβ) in specific brain regions. Both the generation and clearance of Aβ are …

The β-secretase enzyme BACE in health and Alzheimer's disease: regulation, cell biology, function, and therapeutic potential

R Vassar, DM Kovacs, R Yan… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
D 92 TG and D 298 SG are the active site aspartic acid motifs and together they compose
the catalytic domain of BACE1. SP, Pro, TM, and C represent signal peptide, propeptide, …

Melanins and melanogenesis: methods, standards, protocols

…, S Briganti, JC Garcia‐Borron, D Kovacs… - Pigment cell & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite considerable advances in the past decade, melanin research still suffers from the
lack of universally accepted and shared nomenclature, methodologies, and structural models. …

A three-dimensional human neural cell culture model of Alzheimer's disease

…, JB Klee, C Zhang, BJ Wainger, M Peitz, DM Kovacs… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, characterized by two pathological
hallmarks: amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles 1 . The amyloid hypothesis of …

Alzheimer–associated presenilins 1 and 2: neuronal expression in brain and localization to intracellular membranes in mammalian cells

DM Kovacs, HJ Fausett, KJ Page, TW Kim, RD Moir… - Nature medicine, 1996 - nature.com
Mutations in two recently identified genes appear to cause the majority of early–onset familial
Alzheimer's disease (FAD). These two novel genes, presenilin 1 (PS1) and presenilin 2 (…

MACE: Higher order equivariant message passing neural networks for fast and accurate force fields

I Batatia, DP Kovacs, G Simm… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… where DL(Q) ∈ R(2L+1)×(2L+1) is a Wigner D-matrix of order L. A feature labelled with L = 0
… [Yes] (d) Have you read the ethics review guidelines and ensured that your paper conforms …

The many substrates of presenilin/γ-secretase

A Haapasalo, DM Kovacs - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2011 - content.iospress.com
The Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP) is cleaved by
α-, β-, and presenilin (PS)/γ-secretases through sequential regulated proteolysis. These …

Acyl-coenzyme A: cholesterol acyltransferase modulates the generation of the amyloid β-peptide

…, BT Hyman, TY Chang, RE Tanzi, DM Kovacs - Nature cell …, 2001 - nature.com
d, Western blot showing a decrease in both α- and β-APP-CTF levels after 4 d of treatment
with the ACAT inhibitor CP113,818 (10 μM). APP-CTFs were detected as described for Fig. 2. …

[PDF][PDF] Phase separation of C9orf72 dipeptide repeats perturbs stress granule dynamics

S Boeynaems, E Bogaert, D Kovacs, A Konijnenberg… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
… tagged PR20 (Figures 4D and 4E), and found in full-droplet bleaching experiments that
demixed PR readily interchanges with PR in the dispersed phase (Figure 4D). Bleaching within …

Chaperone activity of ERD10 and ERD14, two disordered stress-related plant proteins

D Kovacs, E Kalmar, Z Torok, P Tompa - Plant physiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… Samples were dissolved at 1 mm concentration in H 2 O:D 2 O (9:1, v/v) and centrifuged
prior to use. The spectra were recorded at 25C. For CD spectroscopy, ERD10 and ERD14 were …