How glutamate is managed by the blood–brain barrier

RA Hawkins, JR Viña - Biology, 2016 - mdpi.com
A facilitative transport system exists on the blood–brain barrier (BBB) that has been tacitly
assumed to be a path for glutamate entry to the brain. However, glutamate is a non-essential …

Modifying chromatin by histone tail clip**

GK Azad, S Swagatika, M Kumawat, R Kumawat… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histone proteins play a crucial role in the
regulation of chromatin structure and functions. Studies in the last few decades have …

Extra-nuclear histones: origin, significance and perspectives

A Singh, S Verma, SB Modak, MM Chaturvedi… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2022 - Springer
Histones are classically known to organize the eukaryotic DNA into chromatin. They are one
of the key players in regulating transcriptionally permissive and non-permissive states of the …

Evolutionary Changes in Primate Glutamate Dehydrogenases 1 and 2 Influence the Protein Regulation by Ligands, Targeting and Posttranslational Modifications

YA Aleshina, VA Aleshin - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
There are two paralogs of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) in humans encoded by the
GLUD1 and GLUD2 genes as a result of a recent retroposition during the evolution of …

Multiple forms of glutamate dehydrogenase in animals: structural determinants and physiological implications

V Bunik, A Artiukhov, V Aleshin, G Mkrtchyan - Biology, 2016 - mdpi.com
Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) of animal cells is usually considered to be a mitochondrial
enzyme. However, this enzyme has recently been reported to be also present in nucleus …
GK Azad, RS Tomar - Molecular biology reports, 2014 - Springer
Chromatin is a dynamic DNA scaffold structure that responds to a variety of external and
internal stimuli to regulate the fundamental biological processes. Majority of the cases …
Cathepsin L, a lysosomal protein in mouse embryonic stem cells has been shown to clip the
histone H3 N-terminus, an activity associated with gene activity during mouse cell …

Evolution of GLUD2 Glutamate Dehydrogenase Allows Expression in Human Cortical Neurons

C Spanaki, D Kotzamani, K Kleopa, A Plaitakis - Molecular neurobiology, 2016 - Springer
Human hGDH2 arose via duplication in the apes and driven by positive selection acquired
enhanced catalytic ability under conditions inhibitory to its precursor hGDH1 (common to all …