Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology

JC Chatham, J Zhang, AR Wende - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
In the mid-1980s, the identification of serine and threonine residues on nuclear and
cytoplasmic proteins modified by a N-acetylglucosamine moiety (O-GlcNAc) via an O …

[HTML][HTML] Glycosylation and behavioral symptoms in neurological disorders

P Pradeep, H Kang, B Lee - Translational Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Glycosylation, the addition of glycans or carbohydrates to proteins, lipids, or other glycans, is
a complex post-translational modification that plays a crucial role in cellular function. It is …

Cofilin and actin dynamics: multiple modes of regulation and their impacts in neuronal development and degeneration

JR Bamburg, LS Minamide, ON Wiggan… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proteins of the actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin family are ubiquitous among
eukaryotes and are essential regulators of actin dynamics and function. Mammalian neurons …

O-GlcNAcylation: the sweet side of epigenetics

T Dupas, B Lauzier, S McGraw - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2023 - Springer
Histones display a wide variety of post-translational modifications, including acetylation,
methylation, and phosphorylation. These epigenetic modifications can influence chromatin …

A putative role for lncRNAs in epigenetic regulation of memory

AB Irwin, R Bahabry, FD Lubin - Neurochemistry international, 2021 - Elsevier
The central dogma of molecular genetics is defined as encoded genetic information within
DNA, transcribed into messenger RNA, which contain the instructions for protein synthesis …

O-GlcNAc: Regulator of Signaling and Epigenetics Linked to X-linked Intellectual Disability

D Konzman, LK Abramowitz, A Steenackers… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cellular identity in multicellular organisms is maintained by characteristic transcriptional
networks, nutrient consumption, energy production and metabolite utilization. Integrating …

Early-life exercise primes the murine neural epigenome to facilitate gene expression and hippocampal memory consolidation

AM Raus, TD Fuller, NE Nelson, DA Valientes… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Aerobic exercise is well known to promote neuroplasticity and hippocampal memory. In the
developing brain, early-life exercise (ELE) can lead to persistent improvements in …

Nutrient regulation of the flow of genetic information by O-GlcNAcylation

Y Zhu, GW Hart - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2021 - portlandpress.com
O-linked-β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a post-translational modification (PTM) that is
actively added to and removed from thousands of intracellular proteins. As a PTM, O …

Brain on food: The neuroepigenetics of nutrition

A Vaziri, M Dus - Neurochemistry international, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans have known for millennia that nutrition has a profound influence on health and
disease, but it is only recently that we have begun mapping the mechanisms via which the …

Silencing of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine transferase ameliorates hypercalcemia-induced neurotoxicity in renal failure by regulating EZH2/KLF2/CXCL1 axis

Y Cao, X Chen, H Sun - Cell Death & Disease, 2021 - nature.com
Hypocalcemia, associated with Calcium neurotoxicity, has been reported to induce nerve
dysfunction, which is a significant problem of renal failure. This study identifies a molecular …