[HTML][HTML] Small GTPases

DJ Reiner, EA Lundquist - WormBook: The Online Review of C …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Members of the protein superfamily of small guanosine triphosphatases, also known as
small GTPases, small G-proteins, or the Ras superfamily, are involved in nearly every aspect …

Microglia rescue neurons from aggregate-induced neuronal dysfunction and death through tunneling nanotubes

H Scheiblich, F Eikens, L Wischhof, S Opitz, K Jüngling… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Microglia are crucial for maintaining brain health and neuron function. Here, we report that
microglia establish connections with neurons using tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) in both …

Apoptotic cell clearance in development

J Shklover, F Levy-Adam, E Kurant - Current topics in developmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Programmed cell death and its specific form apoptosis play an important role during
development of multicellular organisms. They are crucial for morphogenesis and organ …

Programmed Cell Death During Caenorhabditis elegans Development

B Conradt, YC Wu, D Xue - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Programmed cell death is an integral component of Caenorhabditis elegans development.
Genetic and reverse genetic studies in C. elegans have led to the identification of many …

Anti-ageing and anti-Parkinsonian effects of natural flavonol, tambulin from Zanthoxyllum aramatum promotes longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans

T Pandey, SR Sammi, Z Nooreen, A Mishra… - Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ageing is a progressive deterioration in functional and structural well-being of the body,
accompanied with age-associated neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) …

Caenorhabditis elegans RAC1/ced-10 mutants as a new animal model to study very early stages of Parkinson's disease

A Muñoz-Juan, N Benseny-Cases, S Guha… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) display non-motor symptoms arising prior to the
appearance of motor signs and before a clear diagnosis. Motor and non-motor symptoms …

The small GTPase RAC1/CED-10 is essential in maintaining dopaminergic neuron function and survival against α-synuclein-induced toxicity

H Kim, C Calatayud, S Guha, I Fernández-Carasa… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Parkinson's disease is associated with intracellular α-synuclein accumulation and ventral
midbrain dopaminergic neuronal death in the Substantia Nigra of brain patients. The Rho …

The ubiquitin-proteasome system in apoptosis and apoptotic cell clearance

L Yuan, P Li, Q Zheng, H Wang, H Xiao - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ubiquitination, a critical post-translational modification of proteins, refers to the covalent
attachment of ubiquitin to the substrate and is involved in various biological processes such …

CYK-4 regulates Rac, but not Rho, during cytokinesis

Y Zhuravlev, SM Hirsch, SN Jordan… - Molecular biology of …, 2017 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Cytokinesis is driven by constriction of an actomyosin contractile ring that is controlled by
Rho-family small GTPases. Rho, activated by the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor ECT …

Silymarin promotes longevity and alleviates Parkinson's associated pathologies in Caenorhabditis elegans

S Srivastava, SR Sammi, TS Laxman, A Pant… - Journal of functional …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aging is an unavoidable phenomenon, often afflicting structure and functionality of body,
marked with onset of age associated manifestations. Parkinson's disease (PD), the second …