Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

B Boland, WH Yu, O Corti, B Mollereau… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson
disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Proteasomal and autophagic degradation systems

I Dikic - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Autophagy and the ubiquitin–proteasome system are the two major quality control pathways
responsible for cellular homeostasis. As such, they provide protection against age …

A practical review of proteasome pharmacology

TA Thibaudeau, DM Smith, Q Ma - Pharmacological reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) degrades individual proteins in a highly regulated
fashion and is responsible for the degradation of misfolded, damaged, or unneeded cellular …

Excitatory/inhibitory balance and circuit homeostasis in autism spectrum disorders

SB Nelson, V Valakh - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and related neurological disorders are associated with
mutations in many genes affecting the ratio between neuronal excitation and inhibition …

A common mechanism of proteasome impairment by neurodegenerative disease-associated oligomers

TA Thibaudeau, RT Anderson, DM Smith - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Protein accumulation and aggregation with a concomitant loss of proteostasis often
contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, and the ubiquitin–proteasome system plays a …

Regulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity by BDNF

G Leal, PM Afonso, IL Salazar, CB Duarte - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has emerged as a major
regulator of activity-dependent plasticity at excitatory synapses in the mammalian central …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of proteasome activity in health and disease

M Schmidt, D Finley - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2014 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) is the primary selective degradation system in the
nuclei and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, required for the turnover of myriad soluble proteins …

Gates, channels, and switches: elements of the proteasome machine

D Finley, X Chen, KJ Walters - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The proteasome has emerged as an intricate machine that has dynamic mechanisms to
regulate the timing of its activity, its selection of substrates, and its processivity. The 19 …

cAMP-induced phosphorylation of 26S proteasomes on Rpn6/PSMD11 enhances their activity and the degradation of misfolded proteins

S Lokireddy, NV Kukushkin… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Although rates of protein degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPS) are
determined by their rates of ubiquitination, we show here that the proteasome's capacity to …

Structure, dynamics and function of the 26S proteasome

Y Mao - Macromolecular protein complexes III: structure and …, 2021 - Springer
The 26S proteasome is the most complex ATP-dependent protease machinery, of~ 2.5 MDa
mass, ubiquitously found in all eukaryotes. It selectively degrades ubiquitin-conjugated …