Ribosomopathies: There's strength in numbers

EW Mills, R Green - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Ribosomopathies are a heterogeneous group of human disorders that are
in some cases known, and in other cases suspected, to result from ribosome dysfunction …

Cerebral iron deposition in neurodegeneration

P Dusek, T Hofer, J Alexander, PM Roos, JO Aaseth - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Disruption of cerebral iron regulation appears to have a role in aging and in the
pathogenesis of various neurodegenerative disorders. Possible unfavorable impacts of iron …

Iron imbalance in neurodegeneration

S Levi, M Ripamonti, AS Moro, A Cozzi - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
Iron is an essential element for the development and functionality of the brain, and
anomalies in its distribution and concentration in brain tissue have been found to be …

Regulation of mRNA translation in neurons—a matter of life and death

M Kapur, CE Monaghan, SL Ackerman - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Dynamic regulation of mRNA translation initiation and elongation is essential for the survival
and function of neural cells. Global reductions in translation initiation resulting from …

Activation of GCN2 kinase by ribosome stalling links translation elongation with translation initiation

R Ishimura, G Nagy, I Dotu, JH Chuang, SL Ackerman - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Ribosome stalling during translation has recently been shown to cause neurodegeneration,
yet the signaling pathways triggered by stalled elongation complexes are unknown. To …

NEMF mutations that impair ribosome-associated quality control are associated with neuromuscular disease

PB Martin, Y Kigoshi-Tansho, RB Sher… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A hallmark of neurodegeneration is defective protein quality control. The E3 ligase Listerin
(LTN1/Ltn1) acts in a specialized protein quality control pathway—Ribosome-associated …

mRNA translation gone awry: translation fidelity and neurological disease

M Kapur, SL Ackerman - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Errors during mRNA translation can lead to a reduction in the levels of functional proteins
and an increase in deleterious molecules. Advances in next-generation sequencing have …

Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress and neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA)

I Hinarejos, C Machuca, P Sancho, C Espinós - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The syndromes of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) encompass a
group of invalidating and progressive rare diseases that share the abnormal accumulation of …

Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation disorders: valuable models aimed at understanding the pathogenesis of iron deposition

S Levi, V Tiranti - Pharmaceuticals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) is a set of neurodegenerative
disorders, which includes very rare monogenetic diseases. They are heterogeneous in …

Impaired transferrin receptor palmitoylation and recycling in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation

A Drecourt, J Babdor, M Dussiot, F Petit… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) is a genetically heterogeneous
condition characterized by progressive dystonia with iron accumulation in the basal ganglia …