The molecular biology of FMRP: new insights into fragile X syndrome

JD Richter, X Zhao - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is the product of the fragile X mental retardation
1 gene (FMR1), a gene that—when epigenetically inactivated by a triplet nucleotide repeat …

Altered neuronal and circuit excitability in fragile X syndrome

A Contractor, VA Klyachko, C Portera-Cailliau - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) results from a genetic mutation in a single gene yet produces a
phenotypically complex disorder with a range of neurological and psychiatric problems …

Linking neural activity and molecular oscillations in the SCN

CS Colwell - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) function as part of a central timing circuit that
drives daily changes in our behaviour and underlying physiology. A hallmark feature of SCN …

Circadian Organization of Behavior and Physiology in Drosophila

R Allada, BY Chung - Annual review of physiology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Circadian clocks organize behavior and physiology to adapt to daily environmental cycles.
Genetic approaches in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have revealed widely …

Circuit level defects in the develo** neocortex of Fragile X mice

JT Gonçalves, JE Anstey, P Golshani… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Subtle alterations in how cortical network dynamics are modulated by different behavioral
states could disrupt normal brain function and underlie symptoms of neuropsychiatric …

Sleep and homeostatic control of plasticity

G Lanza, LM DelRosso, R Ferri - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Sleep homeostasis is a complex neurobiologic phenomenon involving a number of
molecular pathways, neurotransmitter release, synaptic activity, and factors modulating …

FMRP has a cell-type-specific role in CA1 pyramidal neurons to regulate autism-related transcripts and circadian memory

K Sawicka, CR Hale, CY Park, JJ Fak, JE Gresack… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Loss of the RNA binding protein FMRP causes Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), the most common
cause of inherited intellectual disability, yet it is unknown how FMRP function varies across …

Circadian rhythms and memory formation

JR Gerstner, JCP Yin - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
There has been considerable progress in elucidating the molecular mechanisms that
contribute to memory formation and the generation of circadian rhythms. However, it is not …

Protein interactome reveals converging molecular pathways among autism disorders

Y Sakai, CA Shaw, BC Dawson, DV Dugas… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
To uncover shared pathogenic mechanisms among the highly heterogeneous autism
spectrum disorders (ASDs), we developed a protein interaction network that identified …

Sensory processing phenotypes in fragile X syndrome

M Rais, DK Binder, KA Razak, IM Ethell - ASN neuro, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes intellectual
disability. It is a leading known genetic cause of autism. In addition to cognitive, social, and …