Sex differences in molecular neuroscience: from fruit flies to humans

E Jazin, L Cahill - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
A plethora of discoveries relating to sex influences on brain function is rapidly moving this
field into the spotlight for most areas of neuroscience. The domain of molecular or genetic …

C3PO, an endoribonuclease that promotes RNAi by facilitating RISC activation

Y Liu, X Ye, F Jiang, C Liang, D Chen, J Peng… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The catalytic engine of RNA interference (RNAi) is the RNA-induced silencing complex
(RISC), wherein the endoribonuclease Argonaute and single-stranded small interfering RNA …

Biological roles of translin and translin-associated factor-X: RNA metabolism comes to the fore

A Jaendling, RJ McFarlane - Biochemical Journal, 2010 - portlandpress.com
Translin, and its binding partner protein TRAX (translin-associated factor-X) are a
paralogous pair of conserved proteins, which have been implicated in a broad spectrum of …

A single pair of leucokinin neurons are modulated by feeding state and regulate sleep–metabolism interactions

ME Yurgel, P Kakad, M Zandawala, DR Nässel… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Dysregulation of sleep and feeding has widespread health consequences. Despite
extensive epidemiological evidence for interactions between sleep and metabolic function …

Translin is required for metabolic regulation of sleep

K Murakami, ME Yurgel, BA Stahl, P Masek, A Mehta… - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
Dysregulation of sleep or feeding has enormous health consequences. In humans, acute
sleep loss is associated with increased appetite and insulin insensitivity, while chronically …

The Translin/Trax RNA binding complex: clues to function in the nervous system

Z Li, Y Wu, JM Baraban - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2008 - Elsevier
Translin and Trax are components of an evolutionarily conserved RNA binding complex.
Deletion of Translin in yeast, Drosophila and mouse produces a dramatic loss of Trax …

The translin–TRAX complex (C3PO) is a ribonuclease in tRNA processing

L Li, W Gu, C Liang, Q Liu, CC Mello… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
Conserved translin–TRAX complexes, also known as C3POs, have been implicated in many
biological processes, but how they function remains unclear. Recently, C3PO was shown to …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterisation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe homologue of the leukaemia-associated translocation breakpoint binding protein translin and …

A Jaendling, S Ramayah, DW Pryce… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2008 - Elsevier
Translin is a conserved protein which associates with the breakpoint junctions of
chromosomal translocations linked with the development of some human cancers. It binds to …

Translin: A multifunctional protein involved in nucleic acid metabolism

A Gupta, VS Pillai, RK Chittela - Journal of Biosciences, 2019 - Springer
Translin, a highly conserved, DNA/RNA binding protein, is abundantly expressed in brain,
testis and in certain malignancies. It was discovered initially in the quest to find proteins that …

Crystal structures of Drosophila mutant translin and characterization of translin variants reveal the structural plasticity of translin proteins

GD Gupta, RD Makde, BJ Rao, V Kumar - The FEBS journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Translin protein is highly conserved in eukaryotes. Human translin binds both ssDNA and
RNA. Its nucleic acid binding site results from a combination of basic regions in the …