학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 자연과학대학 생명과학부, 2022.2. 정용근.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that accounts for the largest proportion among the diseases in senior population, and AD patients shows pathological memory disorder known as dementia. There are several known genetic and environmental factors that are critical for AD pathogenesis, but the relevance between risk factors and molecular mechanism needs to be elucidated. Amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is a main component of amyloid plaque, a pathologic hallmark of AD. Production and accumulation of Aβ plays a key role in the onset and progression of AD due to its neurotoxic oligomeric forms, and it is called ‘Aβ cascade hypothesis’. It has been known that γ-secretase is a membrane p...