Ubiquitin signalling in neurodegeneration: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

MF Schmidt, ZY Gan, D Komander… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by progressive damage to the nervous
system including the selective loss of vulnerable populations of neurons leading to motor …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X **ao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

RIPK1 mediates a disease-associated microglial response in Alzheimer's disease

D Ofengeim, S Mazzitelli, Y Ito… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Dysfunction of microglia is known to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Here, we investigated the role of RIPK1 in microglia mediating the pathogenesis of AD …

GFAP in health and disease

J Middeldorp, EM Hol - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the main intermediate filament protein in mature
astrocytes, but also an important component of the cytoskeleton in astrocytes during …

[HTML][HTML] The ubiquitin-proteasome proteolytic pathway: destruction for the sake of construction

MH Glickman, A Ciechanover - Physiological reviews, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Between the 1960s and 1980s, most life scientists focused their attention on studies of
nucleic acids and the translation of the coded information. Protein degradation was a …

Emerging roles of ER stress in the etiology and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Y Gerakis, C Hetz - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by
synaptic dysfunction and accumulation of abnormal aggregates formed by amyloid‐β …

Mechanisms underlying ubiquitination

CM Pickart - Annual review of biochemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The conjugation of ubiquitin to other cellular proteins regulates a broad range of
eukaryotic cell functions. The high efficiency and exquisite selectivity of ubiquitination …

Pathways towards and away from Alzheimer's disease

MP Mattson - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Slowly but surely, Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients lose their memory and their cognitive
abilities, and even their personalities may change dramatically. These changes are due to …

Oxidative damage is the earliest event in Alzheimer disease

A Nunomura, G Perry, G Aliev, K Hirai… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Recently, we demonstrated a significant increase of an oxidized nucleoside derived from
RNA, 8-hydroxyguanosine (8OHG), and an oxidized amino acid, nitrotyrosine in vulnerable …

[HTML][HTML] The ubiquitin–proteasome pathway: on protein death and cell life

A Ciechanover - The EMBO journal, 1998 - embopress.org
The discovery of the ubiquitin pathway and its many substrates and functions has
revolutionized our concept of intracellular protein degradation. From an unregulated, non …