Juris Janis Liepnieks, PhD

Published: Apr 20, 2019

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Juris Janis Liepnieks is an Assistant Scientist at Amyloid Research Group, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed his graduation in Chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry from Purdue University. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Representative Publications:

Cathepsin B generates the most common form of amyloid A (76 residues) as a degradation product from serum amyloid A

The primary structure of serum amyloid A protein in the rabbit: comparison with serum amyloid A proteins in other species

Recombinant murine serum amyloid A from baculovirus-infected insect cells: purification and characterization

Characterization of amyloid A protein in human secondary amyloidosis: the predominant deposition of serum amyloid A1

In vitro degradation of serum amyloid A by cathepsin D and other acid proteases: possible protection against amyloid fibril formation

Fibril formation from recombinant human serum amyloid A

Accelerated amyloid deposition in mice treated with the aspartic protease inhibitor, pepstatin

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Juris

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Janis