Clinical and genetic delineation of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation

A Gregory, BJ Polster, SJ Hayflick - Journal of medical genetics, 2009 - jmg.bmj.com
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) describes a group of progressive
neurodegenerative disorders characterised by high brain iron and the presence of axonal …

Coenzyme A biosynthesis: an antimicrobial drug target

C Spry, K Kirk, KJ Saliba - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Pantothenic acid, a precursor of coenzyme A (CoA), is essential for the growth of pathogenic
microorganisms. Since the structure of pantothenic acid was determined, many analogues of …

[HTML][HTML] Correction of both NBD1 energetics and domain interface is required to restore ΔF508 CFTR folding and function

WM Rabeh, F Bossard, H Xu, T Okiyoneda, M Bagdany… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The folding and misfolding mechanism of multidomain proteins remains poorly understood.
Although thermodynamic instability of the first nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1) of ΔF508 …

Probing coenzyme A homeostasis with semisynthetic biosensors

L Xue, P Schnacke, MS Frei, B Koch, J Hiblot… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Coenzyme A (CoA) is one of the central cofactors of metabolism, yet a method for measuring
its concentration in living cells is missing. Here we introduce the first biosensor for …

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 …

A distinct metabolic signature of human colorectal cancer with prognostic potential

Y Qiu, G Cai, B Zhou, D Li, A Zhao, G Xie, H Li… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Metabolic phenotyping has provided important biomarker findings, which,
unfortunately, are rarely replicated across different sample sets due to the variations from …

Antimalarial pantothenamide metabolites target acetyl–coenzyme A biosynthesis in Plasmodium falciparum

J Schalkwijk, EL Allman, PAM Jansen… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Malaria eradication is critically dependent on new therapeutics that target resistant
Plasmodium parasites and block transmission of the disease. Here, we report that …

Thermal denaturation assays in chemical biology

G Senisterra, I Chau, M Vedadi - Assay and drug development …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Thermal denaturation-based methods are becoming increasingly used to characterize
protein stability and interactions. Recent technical advances have made these methods …

Insights into molecular mechanisms of disease in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: unifying theories

CE Arber, A Li, H Houlden… - … and applied neurobiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) is a group of disorders
characterized by dystonia, parkinsonism and spasticity. Iron accumulates in the basal …

A therapeutic approach to pantothenate kinase associated neurodegeneration

LK Sharma, C Subramanian, MK Yun, MW Frank… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pantothenate kinase (PANK) is a metabolic enzyme that regulates cellular coenzyme A
(CoA) levels. There are three human PANK genes, and inactivating mutations in PANK2 …