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Regulation of cathepsin D activity by the FTLD protein progranulin

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Paul Saftig and Dr. Jianhua Zhang for Ctsd +/− mice, Dr. Haiyuan Yu for Cathepsin D cDNA, and Mrs. Xiaochun Wu for technical assistance. This work is supported by funding to F.H. from Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and NINDS (R01NS088448) and by funding to X. Z. from the Weill Institute Fleming Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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    Xiaolai Zhou, Daniel H. Paushter, Tuancheng Feng, Cara M. Pardon, Christina S. Mendoza & Fenghua Hu

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Zhou, X., Paushter, D.H., Feng, T. et al. Regulation of cathepsin D activity by the FTLD protein progranulin. Acta Neuropathol 134, 151–153 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-017-1719-5

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