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Overview

Anja Capell is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on Neurology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Genetics as subfields.

Their work covers multiple topics including:

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Inflammation biomarkers and pathways
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Capell include:

  • A TREM2-activating antibody with a blood-brain barrier transport vehicle enhances microglial metabolism in Alzheimer's disease models (2023, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Loss of TREM2 rescues hyperactivation of microglia, but not lysosomal deficits and neurotoxicity in models of progranulin deficiency (2022, The EMBO Journal)
  • Loss of TMEM 106B potentiates lysosomal and FTLD -like pathology in progranulin-deficient mice (2020, EMBO Reports)
  • The FTLD Risk Factor TMEM106B Regulates the Transport of Lysosomes at the Axon Initial Segment of Motoneurons (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Depletion and activation of microglia impact metabolic connectivity of the mouse brain (2023, Journal of Neuroinflammation)

Frequent publication venues in which Capell has contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • The EMBO Journal
  • EMBO Reports

Key frequent co-authors collaborating with Capell encompass:

  • Christian Haass
  • Gilbert Di Paolo
  • Jung H. Suh
  • Karin Wind
  • Joseph W. Lewcock

Best Publications

  • ALS-associated fused in sarcoma (FUS) mutations disrupt Transportin-mediated nuclear import

    Dorothee Dormann;Dorothee Dormann;Ramona Rodde;Ramona Rodde;Dieter Edbauer;Eva Bentmann;Eva Bentmann

  • The Swedish mutation causes early-onset Alzheimer's disease by beta-secretase cleavage within the secretory pathway.

    Christian Haass;Cynthia A. Lemere;Anja Capell;Anja Capell;Martin Citron

  • Presenilin-dependent γ-secretase processing of β-amyloid precursor protein at a site corresponding to the S3 cleavage of Notch

    Magdalena Sastre;Harald Steiner;Klaus Fuchs;Anja Capell

  • The presenilin 2 mutation (N141I) linked to familial Alzheimer disease (Volga German families) increases the secretion of amyloid β protein ending at the 42nd (or 43rd) residue

    Taisuke Tomita;Kei Maruyama;Takaomi C. Saido;Hideaki Kume

  • The Proteolytic Fragments of the Alzheimer’s Disease-associated Presenilin-1 Form Heterodimers and Occur as a 100–150-kDa Molecular Mass Complex

    Anja Capell;Jürgen Grünberg;Brigitte Pesold;Anke Diehlmann

  • Intracellular Generation and Accumulation of Amyloid β-Peptide Terminating at Amino Acid 42 *

    Christine Wild-Bode;Tsuneo Yamazaki;Anja Capell;Uwe Leimer

  • A loss of function mutation of presenilin-2 interferes with amyloid beta-peptide production and notch signaling.

    Harald Steiner;Karen Duff;Anja Capell;Helmut Romig

  • Presenilin-dependent intramembrane proteolysis of CD44 leads to the liberation of its intracellular domain and the secretion of an Abeta-like peptide.

    Sven Lammich;Masayasu Okochi;Masatoshi Takeda;Christoph Kaether

  • Glycine 384 is required for presenilin-1 function and is conserved in bacterial polytopic aspartyl proteases

    Harald Steiner;Marcus Kostka;Helmut Romig;Gabriele Basset

  • Phosphorylation Regulates Intracellular Trafficking of β-Secretase

    Jochen Walter;Regina Fluhrer;Bianka Hartung;Michael Willem

  • Maturation and Pro-peptide Cleavage of β-Secretase

    Anja Capell;Harald Steiner;Michael Willem;Hartmut Kaiser

  • TREM2 deficiency impairs chemotaxis and microglial responses to neuronal injury.

    Fargol Mazaheri;Nicolas Snaidero;Nicolas Snaidero;Gernot Kleinberger;Charlotte Madore

  • Early increase of CSF sTREM2 in Alzheimer’s disease is associated with tau related-neurodegeneration but not with amyloid-β pathology

    Marc Suárez-Calvet;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Estrella Morenas-Rodríguez;Estrella Morenas-Rodríguez;Gernot Kleinberger;Kai Schlepckow

  • Presenilin-1 mutations of leucine 166 equally affect the generation of the Notch and APP intracellular domains independent of their effect on Aβ42 production

    Tobias Moehlmann;Edith Winkler;Xuefeng Xia;Dieter Edbauer

  • The Alzheimer's disease-associated presenilins are differentially phosphorylated proteins located predominantly within the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Jochen Walter;Anja Capell;Jürgen Grünberg;Brigitte Pesold

  • Expression of Alzheimer’s Disease-associated Presenilin-1 Is Controlled by Proteolytic Degradation and Complex Formation

    Harald Steiner;Anja Capell;Brigitte Pesold;Martin Citron

  • Presenilin-1 affects trafficking and processing of βAPP and is targeted in a complex with nicastrin to the plasma membrane

    Christoph Kaether;Sven Lammich;Dieter Edbauer;Michaela Ertl

  • Missense Mutations in the Progranulin Gene Linked to Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration with Ubiquitin-immunoreactive Inclusions Reduce Progranulin Production and Secretion

    Sunita S. Shankaran;Anja Capell;Alexander T. Hruscha;Katrin Fellerer

  • Presenilin-1 differentially facilitates endoproteolysis of the β-amyloid precursor protein and Notch

    Anja Capell;Harald Steiner;Helmut Romig;Simone Keck

  • The FTLD risk factor TMEM106B and MAP6 control dendritic trafficking of lysosomes

    Benjamin M Schwenk;Christina M Lang;Sebastian Hogl;Sabina Tahirovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Haass
Christian Haass Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Harald Steiner
Harald Steiner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jochen Walter
Jochen Walter University of Bonn
Dieter Edbauer
Dieter Edbauer German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dennis J. Selkoe
Dennis J. Selkoe Brigham and Women's Hospital
David B. Teplow
David B. Teplow University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Citron
Martin Citron Amgen (United States)
Gerd Multhaup
Gerd Multhaup McGill University
Ralf Baumeister
Ralf Baumeister University of Freiburg
Manuela Neumann
Manuela Neumann University of Tübingen

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