Publications
Cermak S, Kosicek M, Mladenovic-Djordjevic A, Smiljanic K, Kanazir S, Hecimovic S. (2016) Loss of Cathepsin B and L Leads to Lysosomal Dysfunction, NPC-Like Cholesterol Sequestration and Accumulation of the Key Alzheimer's Proteins.PLoS One. 11(11):e0167428. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167428.
Drechsler S, Lynch MA, Novella S, González-Navarro H, Hecimovic S, Barini E, Tucci V, Castro RE, Vandenbroucke RE, Osuchowski M, Potter PK. (2016) With mouse age comes wisdom: A review and suggestions of relevant mouse models for age-related conditions. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 160:54-68. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.07.005.
Malnar M, Hecimovic S, Mattsson M, Zetterberg H. (2014) Bidirectional links between Alzheimer's disease and Niemann-Pick type C disease. Neurobiology of Disease, Neurobiol Dis 72 Pt A: 37.
Kosicek M, Wunderlich P, Walter J, Hecimovic S. (2014) GGA1 overexpression attenuates amyloidogenic processing of APP inNPC1-null cells.Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications,450: 160-5.
Kosicek M, Hecimovic S. (2013) Phospholipids and Alzheimer’s disease: alterations, mechanisms and potential biomerkers. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 14: 1310-22.
von Einem B, Weber P, Wagner M, Malnar M, Kosicek M, Hecimovic S, von Arnim C, Schneckenburger H. (2012) Cholesterol dependent energy transfer between fluorescent proteins - insights into protein proximity of APP and BACE1 in different membranes in Niemann-Pick type C disease cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 13: 15801-12.
Mattsson N, Olsson M, Gustavsson MK, Kosicek M, Malnar M, Månsson JE, Blomqvist M, Gobom J, Andreasson U, Brinkmalm G, Vite C, Hecimovic S, Hastings C, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Portelius E. (2012) Amyloid-β metabolism in Niemann-Pick C disease models and patients. Metabolic Brain Disease. 27:573-585.
Malnar M, Kosicek M, Lisica A, Posavec M, Krolo A, Njavro J, Omerbasic D, Tahirovic S, Hecimovic S. (2012) Cholesterol-depletion corrects APP and BACE1 misstrafficking in NPC1-deficient cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Basis of Disease1822: 1270-83.
Kosicek M, Zetterberg H, Andreasen N, Peter-Katalinic J, Hecimovic S. (2012) Elevated cerebrospinal fluid sphingomyelin levels in prodromal Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters516: 302-5.
Kosicek M, Malnar M, Goate A, Hecimovic S. (2010) Cholesterol accumulation in Niemann Pick type C (NPC) model cells causes a shift in APP localization to lipid rafts. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 393: 404-9.
Malnar M, Kosicek M, Mitterreiter S, Omerbasic D, Lichtenthaler SF, Goate A, Hecimovic S. (2010) Niemann Pick type C cells show cholesterol dependent decrease of APP expression at the cell surface its increased processing through the β-secretase pathway. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Basis of Disease 1802: 682-91
Kosicek M, Kirsch S, Bene R, Trkanjec Z, Titlic M, Bindila L, Peter-Katalinic J, Hecimovic S. (2010) Nano-HPLC-MS analysis of phospholipids in cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease patients-a pilot study. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 98: 2929-37.
Hecimovic S, Wang J, Martinez M, Goate A (2004) Mutations in APP have independent effects on Aβ and CTFγ generation. Neurobiology of Disease 17: 205-218.
Cam JA, Zerbinatti CV, Knisely JM, Hecimovic S, Yonghe L, Bu G (2004) The LDL receptor-related protein 1B retains APP at the cell surface and reduces amyloid-β peptide production. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279: 29639-46.
Wang J, Brunkan AL, Hecimovic S, Walker E, Goate A (2004) Conserved “PAL” sequence in presenilins is essential for γ-secretase activity, but not required for formation or stabilization of γ-secretase complex. Neurobiology of Disease 15: 654-666.
Schroeter EH, Ilagan MXG, Brunkan AL, Hecimovic S, Li Y-M, Xu M, Lewis HD, Saxena MT, De Strooper B, Coonrod A, Tomita T, Iwatsubo T, Moore CL, Shearman M, Goate A, Wolfe MS, Kopan R (2003) A presenilin dimer at the core of the gamma-secretase enzyme: insights from parallel analysis of Notch 1 and APP proteolysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 13075-80.