. "Belongs to peptidase family A1." . "Can cleave beta-amyloid precursor protein to form the amyloidogenic beta-peptide that is implicated in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, but is not significantly expressed in human brain." . . . "BACE2" . "Down region aspartic protease" . "Membrane-associated aspartic protease 1" . "ASP1" . "Beta-secretase" . "Memapsin 1" . "Beta-site Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 2" . "Beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme 2" . "Broad endopeptidase specificity. Cleaves Glu-Val-Asn-Leu-|-Asp-Ala-Glu-Phe in the Swedish variant of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein." .