α-Synuclein in synaptic function and dysfunction

M Sharma, J Burré - Trends in neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract α-Synuclein is a neuronal protein that is enriched in presynaptic terminals. Under
physiological conditions, it binds to synaptic vesicle membranes and functions in …

Brain glucose metabolism: integration of energetics with function

GA Dienel - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Glucose is the long-established, obligatory fuel for brain that fulfills many critical functions,
including ATP production, oxidative stress management, and synthesis of neurotransmitters …

Physiology of astroglia

A Verkhratsky, M Nedergaard - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Astrocytes are neural cells of ectodermal, neuroepithelial origin that provide for homeostasis
and defense of the central nervous system (CNS). Astrocytes are highly heterogeneous in …

Rab family of small GTPases: an updated view on their regulation and functions

Y Homma, S Hiragi, M Fukuda - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Rab family of small GTPases regulates intracellular membrane trafficking by
orchestrating the biogenesis, transport, tethering, and fusion of membrane‐bound …

Spatial proteomics: a powerful discovery tool for cell biology

E Lundberg, GHH Borner - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2019 - nature.com
Protein subcellular localization is tightly controlled and intimately linked to protein function in
health and disease. Capturing the spatial proteome—that is, the localizations of proteins and …

Autophagy in Parkinson's disease

X Hou, JO Watzlawik, FC Fiesel, W Springer - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Impaired protein homeostasis and accumulation of damaged or abnormally modified protein
are common disease mechanisms in many neurodegenerative disorders, including …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Tau in physiology and pathology

Y Wang, E Mandelkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that has a role in stabilizing neuronal microtubules
and thus in promoting axonal outgrowth. Structurally, tau is a natively unfolded protein, is …

Botulinum neurotoxins: biology, pharmacology, and toxicology

M Pirazzini, O Rossetto, R Eleopra, C Montecucco… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) is rapidly progressing in many aspects. Novel
BoNTs are being discovered owing to next generation sequencing, but their biologic and …

Precision size and refractive index analysis of weakly scattering nanoparticles in polydispersions

AD Kashkanova, M Blessing, A Gemeinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the size and material properties of particles in liquid
suspensions is in very high demand, for example, in the analysis of colloidal samples or of …