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Erica Peethumnongsin

Cell and Molecular Biology

Undergraduate Institution: Baylor University

Year: Sixth-Year Graduate Student

Mentor: Hui Zheng, Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Roles of tau and presenilin in axonal transport and neurodegeneration

Publications:

Placanica L, Tarassishin L, Yang G, Peethumnongsin E, Kim SH, Zheng H, Sisodia SS, Li YM. Pen2 and presenilin-1 modulate the dynamic equilibrium of presenilin-1 and presenilin-2 gamma-secretase complexes. J Biol Chem. 2009; (284)5:2967-77.

Kallhoff V, Peethumnongsin E, Zheng H. Lack of alpha-synuclein increases amyloid plaque accumulation in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Mol Neurodegener. 2007; (2):6.

Deng Y, Tarassishin L, Kallhoff V, Peethumnongsin E, Wu L, Li YM, Zheng H. Deletion of presenilin 1 hydrophilic loop sequence leads to impaired gamma-secretase activity and exacerbated amyloid pathology. J Neurosci. 2006; (26)14:3845-54.