Regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1) facilitates neuronal apoptosis through caspase-3 activation

X Sun, Y Wu, B Chen, Z Zhang, W Zhou, Y Tong… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) will inevitably develop Alzheimer disease (AD)
neuropathology sometime after middle age, which may be attributable to genes triplicated in …

RCAN1 overexpression exacerbates calcium overloading-induced neuronal apoptosis

X Sun, Y Wu, B Herculano, W Song - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Down Syndrome (DS) patients develop characteristic Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
neuropathology after their middle age. Prominent neuronal loss has been observed in the …

Regulation of RCAN1 translation and its role in oxidative stress‐induced apoptosis

Y Wu, W Song - The FASEB Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abnormal expression of regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1) has been implicated in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down's syndrome (DS). There are two major isoforms of …

Degradation of regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1) is mediated by both chaperone‐mediated autophagy and ubiquitin proteasome pathways

H Liu, P Wang, W Song, X Sun - The FASEB Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1), a gene identified from the critical region of
Down syndrome, has been implied in pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). RCAN1 …

RCAN1 overexpression promotes age-dependent mitochondrial dysregulation related to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

H Wong, J Levenga, P Cain, B Rothermel, E Klann… - Acta …, 2015 - Springer
Aging is the largest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Patients with Down syndrome
(DS) develop symptoms consistent with early-onset AD, suggesting that overexpression of …

Regulator of calcineurin 1 is a novel RNA-binding protein to regulate neuronal apoptosis

Y Yun, Y Zhang, C Zhang, L Huang, S Tan… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression plays an important role in the maturation,
transport, stability and translation of coding and noncoding RNAs. RNA-binding protein …

RCAN1 (DSCR1) increases neuronal susceptibility to oxidative stress: a potential pathogenic process in neurodegeneration

S Porta, SA Serra, M Huch, MA Valverde… - Human Molecular …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Oxidative stress (OS) underlies neuronal dysfunction in many neurodegenerative disorders.
Regulator of Calcineurin 1 (RCAN1 or DSCR1) is a dose-sensitive gene whose …

Aberrant expression of RCAN1 in Alzheimer's pathogenesis: a new molecular mechanism and a novel drug target

Y Wu, PTT Ly, W Song - Molecular neurobiology, 2014 - Springer
AD, a devastating neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common cause of dementia in
the elderly. Patients with AD are characterized by three hallmarks of neuropathology …

The Down syndrome critical region protein RCAN1 regulates long-term potentiation and memory via inhibition of phosphatase signaling

CA Hoeffer, A Dey, N Sachan, H Wong… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1/MCIP1/DSCR1) regulates the calmodulin-dependent
phosphatase calcineurin. Because it is located on human chromosome 21, RCAN1 has …

Amyloid-β precursor protein facilitates the regulator of calcineurin 1-mediated apoptosis by downregulating proteasome subunit α type-5 and proteasome subunit β …

Y Wu, Y Deng, S Zhang, Y Luo, F Cai, Z Zhang… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS), caused by trisomy of chromosome 21, inevitably
develop characteristic Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, including neuritic plaques …