[PDF][PDF] Diverse roles of Rho family GTPases in neuronal development, survival, and death

DA Linseman, FA Loucks - Front Biosci, 2008 - academia.edu
Introduction 3. Rho GTPase effectors 3.1. Rac/Cdc42/PAK 3.2. Rho/ROCK 3.3. Cdc42/ACK
4. Rho GTPases, neuronal growth cone dynamics, and dendritic spine morphogenesis 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Exploration of aberrant E3 ligases implicated in Alzheimer's disease and development of chemical tools to modulate their function

FM Potjewyd, AD Axtman - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS) is responsible for the degradation of misfolded or
aggregated proteins via a multistep ATP-dependent proteolytic mechanism. This process …

The Parkinson's disease genome‐wide association study locus browser

FP Grenn, JJ Kim, MB Makarious, H Iwaki… - Movement …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with an often
complex component identifiable by genome‐wide association studies. The most recent large …

A Mutation in CALM1 Encoding Calmodulin in Familial Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation in Childhood and Adolescence

RF Marsman, J Barc, L Beekman, M Alders… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the genetic defect in a family with idiopathic
ventricular fibrillation (IVF) manifesting in childhood and adolescence. Background …

Dysregulation of ribosome-associated quality control elicits cognitive disorders via overaccumulation of TTC3

R Endo, YK Chen, J Burke… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) pathway is responsible for degradation of
nascent polypeptides in aberrantly stalled ribosomes, and its defects may lead to …

[HTML][HTML] The E3 ligase TTC3 facilitates ubiquitination and degradation of phosphorylated Akt

F Suizu, Y Hiramuki, F Okumura, M Matsuda… - Developmental cell, 2009 - cell.com
The serine threonine kinase Akt is a core survival factor that underlies a variety of human
diseases. Although regulatory phosphorylation and dephosphorylation have been well …

Transcript catalogs of human chromosome 21 and orthologous chimpanzee and mouse regions

X Sturgeon, KJ Gardiner - Mammalian Genome, 2011 - Springer
A comprehensive representation of the gene content of the long arm of human chromosome
21 (Hsa21q) remains of interest for the study of Down syndrome, its associated phenotypic …

Shared causal paths underlying Alzheimer's dementia and type 2 diabetes

Z Hu, R Jiao, P Wang, Y Zhu, J Zhao, P De Jager… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a central nervous system disease and type 2 diabetes
MELLITUS (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder, an increasing number of genetic epidemiological …

Mental retardation in Down syndrome: from gene dosage imbalance to molecular and cellular mechanisms

M Rachidi, C Lopes - Neuroscience research, 2007 - Elsevier
Down syndrome (DS), the most frequent genetic disorder leading to mental retardation (MR),
is caused by three copies of human chromosome 21 (HC21). Trisomic and transgenic …

Atrazine neural and reproductive toxicity

H Sadeghnia, S Shahba… - Toxin …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Atrazine is one of the common herbicides with an annual usage of 70,000–90,000 tons
worldwide. Due to its long half-life (> 60 days), atrazine persists in water and soil for long …