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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2010-02-09
    Description: Ca(2+) channels and calmodulin (CaM) are two prominent signalling hubs that synergistically affect functions as diverse as cardiac excitability, synaptic plasticity and gene transcription. It is therefore fitting that these hubs are in some sense coordinated, as the opening of Ca(V)1-2 Ca(2+) channels are regulated by a single CaM constitutively complexed with channels. The Ca(2+)-free form of CaM (apoCaM) is already pre-associated with the isoleucine-glutamine (IQ) domain on the channel carboxy terminus, and subsequent Ca(2+) binding to this 'resident' CaM drives conformational changes that then trigger regulation of channel opening. Another potential avenue for channel-CaM coordination could arise from the absence of Ca(2+) regulation in channels lacking a pre-associated CaM. Natural fluctuations in CaM concentrations might then influence the fraction of regulable channels and, thereby, the overall strength of Ca(2+) feedback. However, the prevailing view has been that the ultrastrong affinity of channels for apoCaM ensures their saturation with CaM, yielding a significant form of concentration independence between Ca(2+) channels and CaM. Here we show that significant exceptions to this autonomy exist, by combining electrophysiology (to characterize channel regulation) with optical fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensor determination of free-apoCaM concentration in live cells. This approach translates quantitative CaM biochemistry from the traditional test-tube context into the realm of functioning holochannels within intact cells. From this perspective, we find that long splice forms of Ca(V)1.3 and Ca(V)1.4 channels include a distal carboxy tail that resembles an enzyme competitive inhibitor that retunes channel affinity for apoCaM such that natural CaM variations affect the strength of Ca(2+) feedback modulation. Given the ubiquity of these channels, the connection between ambient CaM levels and Ca(2+) entry through channels is broadly significant for Ca(2+) homeostasis. Strategies such as ours promise key advances for the in situ analysis of signalling molecules resistant to in vitro reconstitution, such as Ca(2+) channels.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553577/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553577/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Xiaodong -- Yang, Philemon S -- Yang, Wanjun -- Yue, David T -- P30 DC005211/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC000276/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):968-72. doi: 10.1038/nature08766. Epub 2010 Feb 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Calcium Signals Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ross Building, Room 713, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20139964" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alternative Splicing ; Animals ; Apoproteins/analysis/metabolism ; Binding, Competitive/drug effects ; Calcium/analysis/metabolism/pharmacology ; Calcium Channel Blockers/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Calcium Channels/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Calmodulin/analysis/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; Electrophysiology ; *Feedback, Physiological ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Humans ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 May 20;465(7296):267. doi: 10.1038/465267a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20485389" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Rights/trends ; Animals ; Animals, Laboratory/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Cognition/*physiology ; Empathy/physiology ; Humans ; Mice ; *Models, Animal ; Neurosciences/*methods/trends ; Prefrontal Cortex/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Primates/*anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-08
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Quirk, Gregory J -- Milad, Mohammed R -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):36-7. doi: 10.1038/463036a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054384" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Conditioning, Classical/*physiology ; Cues ; Electroshock ; Extinction, Psychological/*physiology ; Fear/*physiology/*psychology ; Humans ; Memory/*physiology ; Models, Neurological ; Models, Psychological ; Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology ; Photic Stimulation ; Rats ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/therapy ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
    Description: Copper is an essential trace element for eukaryotes and most prokaryotes. However, intracellular free copper must be strictly limited because of its toxic side effects. Complex systems for copper trafficking evolved to satisfy cellular requirements while minimizing toxicity. The factors driving the copper transfer between protein partners along cellular copper routes are, however, not fully rationalized. Until now, inconsistent, scattered and incomparable data on the copper-binding affinities of copper proteins have been reported. Here we determine, through a unified electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS)-based strategy, in an environment that mimics the cellular redox milieu, the apparent Cu(I)-binding affinities for a representative set of intracellular copper proteins involved in enzymatic redox catalysis, in copper trafficking to and within various cellular compartments, and in copper storage. The resulting thermodynamic data show that copper is drawn to the enzymes that require it by passing from one copper protein site to another, exploiting gradients of increasing copper-binding affinity. This result complements the finding that fast copper-transfer pathways require metal-mediated protein-protein interactions and therefore protein-protein specific recognition. Together with Cu,Zn-SOD1, metallothioneins have the highest affinity for copper(I), and may play special roles in the regulation of cellular copper distribution; however, for kinetic reasons they cannot demetallate copper enzymes. Our study provides the thermodynamic basis for the kinetic processes that lead to the distribution of cellular copper.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Banci, Lucia -- Bertini, Ivano -- Ciofi-Baffoni, Simone -- Kozyreva, Tatiana -- Zovo, Kairit -- Palumaa, Peep -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 3;465(7298):645-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09018. Epub 2010 May 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Magnetic Resonance Center CERM and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463663" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biocatalysis ; Carrier Proteins/*metabolism ; Cations, Monovalent/metabolism ; Copper/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Cyclooxygenase 2/chemistry/metabolism ; Dithiothreitol/metabolism ; Glutathione/metabolism ; Humans ; Intracellular Space/*metabolism ; Ion Transport ; Kinetics ; Ligands ; Metallothionein/metabolism ; Mitochondria, Liver ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Protein Binding ; Rats ; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ; Thermodynamics
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 May 20;465(7296):267-8. doi: 10.1038/465267b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20485388" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acidosis, Lactic/drug therapy ; Animals ; Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Clinical Trials as Topic/economics ; Dichloroacetic Acid/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Drug Industry/*economics/methods/trends ; Humans ; Off-Label Use/*economics ; Patents as Topic/*legislation & jurisprudence ; Rats ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Borrell, Brendan -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 22;464(7292):1122-4. doi: 10.1038/4641122a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414285" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Benzhydryl Compounds ; Chemical Industry/methods/standards ; Endocrine Disruptors/adverse effects/toxicity ; Estrogens, Non-Steroidal/adverse effects/toxicity ; Female ; Guidelines as Topic ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Mice ; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (U.S.) ; Neoplasms/chemically induced/etiology ; Phenols/adverse effects/*toxicity ; Rats ; Toxicity Tests/methods/standards ; Toxicology/economics/*methods/*standards ; United States ; United States Environmental Protection Agency ; Validation Studies as Topic
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-03
    Description: It is well known that neural activity exhibits variability, in the sense that identical sensory stimuli produce different responses, but it has been difficult to determine what this variability means. Is it noise, or does it carry important information-about, for example, the internal state of the organism? Here we address this issue from the bottom up, by asking whether small perturbations to activity in cortical networks are amplified. Based on in vivo whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in rat barrel cortex, we find that a perturbation consisting of a single extra spike in one neuron produces approximately 28 additional spikes in its postsynaptic targets. We also show, using simultaneous intra- and extracellular recordings, that a single spike in a neuron produces a detectable increase in firing rate in the local network. Theoretical analysis indicates that this amplification leads to intrinsic, stimulus-independent variations in membrane potential of the order of +/-2.2-4.5 mV-variations that are pure noise, and so carry no information at all. Therefore, for the brain to perform reliable computations, it must either use a rate code, or generate very large, fast depolarizing events, such as those proposed by the theory of synfire chains. However, in our in vivo recordings, we found that such events were very rare. Our findings are thus consistent with the idea that cortex is likely to use primarily a rate code.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898896/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898896/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉London, Michael -- Roth, Arnd -- Beeren, Lisa -- Hausser, Michael -- Latham, Peter E -- G0500244/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01 MH062447-08/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH62447/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 1;466(7302):123-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09086.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20596024" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/physiology ; Animals ; Artifacts ; Cerebral Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; *Models, Neurological ; Neurons/metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Probability ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Stochastic Processes
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-22
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Skinner, Michael K -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):922-3. doi: 10.1038/467922a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20962833" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adiposity/drug effects ; Animals ; Body Weight/drug effects ; DNA Methylation ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/etiology/genetics/pathology/physiopathology ; Diet/*adverse effects ; Dietary Fats/*administration & dosage/*adverse effects ; Epigenesis, Genetic/drug effects ; *Fathers ; Female ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Glucose Intolerance/etiology/pathology/physiopathology ; Insulin/secretion ; Insulin-Secreting Cells/metabolism/*pathology/secretion ; Male ; Obesity/etiology/genetics/pathology/physiopathology ; Paternal Exposure/*adverse effects ; Rats ; Spermatozoa/drug effects/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
    Description: Long interspersed nuclear elements-1 (LINE-1 or L1s) are abundant retrotransposons that comprise approximately 20% of mammalian genomes. Active L1 retrotransposons can impact the genome in a variety of ways, creating insertions, deletions, new splice sites or gene expression fine-tuning. We have shown previously that L1 retrotransposons are capable of mobilization in neuronal progenitor cells from rodents and humans and evidence of massive L1 insertions was observed in adult brain tissues but not in other somatic tissues. In addition, L1 mobility in the adult hippocampus can be influenced by the environment. The neuronal specificity of somatic L1 retrotransposition in neural progenitors is partially due to the transition of a Sox2/HDAC1 repressor complex to a Wnt-mediated T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer factor (TCF/LEF) transcriptional activator. The transcriptional switch accompanies chromatin remodelling during neuronal differentiation, allowing a transient stimulation of L1 transcription. The activity of L1 retrotransposons during brain development can have an impact on gene expression and neuronal function, thereby increasing brain-specific genetic mosaicism. Further understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate L1 expression should provide new insights into the role of L1 retrotransposition during brain development. Here we show that L1 neuronal transcription and retrotransposition in rodents are increased in the absence of methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2), a protein involved in global DNA methylation and human neurodevelopmental diseases. Using neuronal progenitor cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human tissues, we revealed that patients with Rett syndrome (RTT), carrying MeCP2 mutations, have increased susceptibility for L1 retrotransposition. Our data demonstrate that L1 retrotransposition can be controlled in a tissue-specific manner and that disease-related genetic mutations can influence the frequency of neuronal L1 retrotransposition. Our findings add a new level of complexity to the molecular events that can lead to neurological disorders.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059197/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059197/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Muotri, Alysson R -- Marchetto, Maria C N -- Coufal, Nicole G -- Oefner, Ruth -- Yeo, Gene -- Nakashima, Kinichi -- Gage, Fred H -- 1-DP2-OD006495-01/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP2 OD006495/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP2 OD006495-01/OD/NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH088485/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH088485-03/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01MH088485/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 18;468(7322):443-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09544.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics/Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0695, USA. muotri@ucsd.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085180" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5' Untranslated Regions/genetics ; Animals ; Brain/cytology/metabolism ; DNA Methylation ; Gene Silencing ; Humans ; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism ; Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements/*genetics ; Male ; Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Methylation ; Mice ; Neuroepithelial Cells/metabolism ; Neurons/*metabolism ; Organ Specificity ; Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics ; Rats ; Recombination, Genetic/*genetics ; Rett Syndrome/genetics/pathology ; Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-19
    Description: Functional receptive fields of neurons in sensory cortices undergo progressive refinement during development. Such refinement may be attributed to the pruning of non-optimal excitatory inputs, reshaping of the excitatory tuning profile through modifying the strengths of individual inputs, or strengthening of cortical inhibition. These models have not been directly tested because of the technical difficulties in assaying the spatiotemporal patterns of functional synaptic inputs during development. Here we apply in vivo whole-cell voltage-clamp recordings to the recipient layer 4 neurons in the rat primary auditory cortex (A1) to determine the developmental changes in the frequency-intensity tonal receptive fields (TRFs) of their excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Surprisingly, we observe co-tuned excitation and inhibition immediately after the onset of hearing, suggesting that a tripartite thalamocortical circuit with relatively strong feedforward inhibition is formed independently of auditory experience. The frequency ranges of tone-driven excitatory and inhibitory inputs first expand within a few days of the onset of hearing and then persist into adulthood. The latter phase is accompanied by a sharpening of the excitatory but not inhibitory frequency tuning profile, which results in relatively broader inhibitory tuning in adult A1 neurons. Thus the development of cortical synaptic TRFs after the onset of hearing is marked by a slight breakdown of previously formed excitation-inhibition balance. Our results suggest that functional refinement of cortical TRFs does not require a selective pruning of inputs, but may depend more on a fine adjustment of excitatory input strengths.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909826/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909826/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sun, Yujiao J -- Wu, Guangying K -- Liu, Bao-Hua -- Li, Pingyang -- Zhou, Mu -- Xiao, Zhongju -- Tao, Huizhong W -- Zhang, Li I -- EY018718/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- EY019049/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC008983/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC008983-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC008983-02/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC008983-03/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC008983-04/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY019049/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY019049-02/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01DC008983/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R03 DC006814/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R03 DC006814-01A1/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R03 DC006814-02/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R03 DC006814-03/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R21 DC008588/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R21 DC008588-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R21 DC008588-02/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R21DC008588/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR025755/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 17;465(7300):927-31. doi: 10.1038/nature09079.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20559386" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Auditory Cortex/growth & development/*physiology ; Auditory Pathways/physiology ; Electrical Synapses/physiology ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/*physiology ; Hearing/physiology ; Neural Inhibition/*physiology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Sensory Receptor Cells/*physiology ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
    Description: Large-conductance, voltage- and calcium-activated potassium (BK, or K(Ca)1.1) channels are ubiquitously expressed in electrically excitable and non-excitable cells, either as alpha-subunit (BKalpha) tetramers or together with tissue specific auxiliary beta-subunits (beta1-beta4). Activation of BK channels typically requires coincident membrane depolarization and elevation in free cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)), which are not physiological conditions for most non-excitable cells. Here we present evidence that in non-excitable LNCaP prostate cancer cells, BK channels can be activated at negative voltages without rises in [Ca(2+)](i) through their complex with an auxiliary protein, leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-containing protein 26 (LRRC26). LRRC26 modulates the gating of a BK channel by enhancing the allosteric coupling between voltage-sensor activation and the channel's closed-open transition. This finding reveals a novel auxiliary protein of a voltage-gated ion channel that gives an unprecedentedly large negative shift ( approximately -140 mV) in voltage dependence and provides a molecular basis for activation of BK channels at physiological voltages and calcium levels in non-excitable cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yan, Jiusheng -- Aldrich, Richard W -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 22;466(7305):513-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09162. Epub 2010 Jul 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Neurobiology, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20613726" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Allosteric Regulation ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; *Calcium/analysis ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Humans ; Ion Channel Gating/*physiology ; Large-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels/genetics/*metabolism ; Male ; Membrane Potentials ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neoplasm Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Prostatic Neoplasms/metabolism ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
    Description: Delta-like 4 (DLL4)-mediated Notch signalling has emerged as an attractive target for cancer therapy. However, the potential side effects of blocking this pathway remain uncertain. Here we show that chronic DLL4 blockade causes pathological activation of endothelial cells, disrupts normal organ homeostasis and induces vascular tumours, raising important safety concerns.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yan, Minhong -- Callahan, Christopher A -- Beyer, Joseph C -- Allamneni, Krishna P -- Zhang, Gu -- Ridgway, John Brady -- Niessen, Kyle -- Plowman, Greg D -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 11;463(7282):E6-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08751.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA. minhong@gene.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147986" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antineoplastic Agents/*adverse effects/pharmacology ; Drug-Induced Liver Injury/pathology/physiopathology ; Endothelial Cells/drug effects/pathology ; Humans ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/*antagonists & ; inhibitors/metabolism ; Macaca fascicularis ; Membrane Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Mice ; Rats ; Receptors, Notch/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Vascular Neoplasms/*chemically induced
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-10
    Description: Combined analyses of gene networks and DNA sequence variation can provide new insights into the aetiology of common diseases that may not be apparent from genome-wide association studies alone. Recent advances in rat genomics are facilitating systems-genetics approaches. Here we report the use of integrated genome-wide approaches across seven rat tissues to identify gene networks and the loci underlying their regulation. We defined an interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7)-driven inflammatory network (IDIN) enriched for viral response genes, which represents a molecular biomarker for macrophages and which was regulated in multiple tissues by a locus on rat chromosome 15q25. We show that Epstein-Barr virus induced gene 2 (Ebi2, also known as Gpr183), which lies at this locus and controls B lymphocyte migration, is expressed in macrophages and regulates the IDIN. The human orthologous locus on chromosome 13q32 controlled the human equivalent of the IDIN, which was conserved in monocytes. IDIN genes were more likely to associate with susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (T1D)-a macrophage-associated autoimmune disease-than randomly selected immune response genes (P = 8.85 x 10(-6)). The human locus controlling the IDIN was associated with the risk of T1D at single nucleotide polymorphism rs9585056 (P = 7.0 x 10(-10); odds ratio, 1.15), which was one of five single nucleotide polymorphisms in this region associated with EBI2 (GPR183) expression. These data implicate IRF7 network genes and their regulatory locus in the pathogenesis of T1D.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657719/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657719/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Heinig, Matthias -- Petretto, Enrico -- Wallace, Chris -- Bottolo, Leonardo -- Rotival, Maxime -- Lu, Han -- Li, Yoyo -- Sarwar, Rizwan -- Langley, Sarah R -- Bauerfeind, Anja -- Hummel, Oliver -- Lee, Young-Ae -- Paskas, Svetlana -- Rintisch, Carola -- Saar, Kathrin -- Cooper, Jason -- Buchan, Rachel -- Gray, Elizabeth E -- Cyster, Jason G -- Cardiogenics Consortium -- Erdmann, Jeanette -- Hengstenberg, Christian -- Maouche, Seraya -- Ouwehand, Willem H -- Rice, Catherine M -- Samani, Nilesh J -- Schunkert, Heribert -- Goodall, Alison H -- Schulz, Herbert -- Roider, Helge G -- Vingron, Martin -- Blankenberg, Stefan -- Munzel, Thomas -- Zeller, Tanja -- Szymczak, Silke -- Ziegler, Andreas -- Tiret, Laurence -- Smyth, Deborah J -- Pravenec, Michal -- Aitman, Timothy J -- Cambien, Francois -- Clayton, David -- Todd, John A -- Hubner, Norbert -- Cook, Stuart A -- 061858/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 076113/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 089989/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U120061454/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_U120085815/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_U120097112/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- P301/10/0290/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):460-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09386. Epub 2010 Sep 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20827270" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13/genetics ; Chromosomes, Mammalian/genetics ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/*genetics/immunology ; Gene Regulatory Networks/genetics ; Genetic Loci/*genetics ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Humans ; Immunity, Innate/*genetics ; Inflammation/genetics/immunology ; Interferon Regulatory Factor-7/immunology ; Macrophages/immunology/metabolism ; Organ Specificity ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics ; Rats ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics/metabolism ; Viruses/*immunology
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-16
    Description: Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission provides an experimental model for studying mechanisms of memory. The classical form of LTP relies on N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), and it has been shown that astroglia can regulate their activation through Ca(2+)-dependent release of the NMDAR co-agonist D-serine. Release of D-serine from glia enables LTP in cultures and explains a correlation between glial coverage of synapses and LTP in the supraoptic nucleus. However, increases in Ca(2+) concentration in astroglia can also release other signalling molecules, most prominently glutamate, ATP and tumour necrosis factor-alpha, whereas neurons themselves can synthesize and supply D-serine. Furthermore, loading an astrocyte with exogenous Ca(2+) buffers does not suppress LTP in hippocampal area CA1 (refs 14-16), and the physiological relevance of experiments in cultures or strong exogenous stimuli applied to astrocytes has been questioned. The involvement of glia in LTP induction therefore remains controversial. Here we show that clamping internal Ca(2+) in individual CA1 astrocytes blocks LTP induction at nearby excitatory synapses by decreasing the occupancy of the NMDAR co-agonist sites. This LTP blockade can be reversed by exogenous D-serine or glycine, whereas depletion of D-serine or disruption of exocytosis in an individual astrocyte blocks local LTP. We therefore demonstrate that Ca(2+)-dependent release of D-serine from an astrocyte controls NMDAR-dependent plasticity in many thousands of excitatory synapses nearby.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807667/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807667/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Henneberger, Christian -- Papouin, Thomas -- Oliet, Stephane H R -- Rusakov, Dmitri A -- 084311/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G0600368/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0600368(77987)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0802216/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0802216(89644)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0900613/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0900613(91064)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):232-6. doi: 10.1038/nature08673.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075918" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Astrocytes/cytology/drug effects/metabolism/*secretion ; Calcium/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Exocytosis/drug effects ; Glycine/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/cytology/drug effects/physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/drug effects/*physiology ; Male ; Memory/drug effects/physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Rats, Wistar ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/agonists/metabolism ; Serine/biosynthesis/metabolism/pharmacology/*secretion ; Synapses/drug effects/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-08
    Description: Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process by which cytoplasmic proteins and organelles are catabolized. During starvation, the protein TOR (target of rapamycin), a nutrient-responsive kinase, is inhibited, and this induces autophagy. In autophagy, double-membrane autophagosomes envelop and sequester intracellular components and then fuse with lysosomes to form autolysosomes, which degrade their contents to regenerate nutrients. Current models of autophagy terminate with the degradation of the autophagosome cargo in autolysosomes, but the regulation of autophagy in response to nutrients and the subsequent fate of the autolysosome are poorly understood. Here we show that mTOR signalling in rat kidney cells is inhibited during initiation of autophagy, but reactivated by prolonged starvation. Reactivation of mTOR is autophagy-dependent and requires the degradation of autolysosomal products. Increased mTOR activity attenuates autophagy and generates proto-lysosomal tubules and vesicles that extrude from autolysosomes and ultimately mature into functional lysosomes, thereby restoring the full complement of lysosomes in the cell-a process we identify in multiple animal species. Thus, an evolutionarily conserved cycle in autophagy governs nutrient sensing and lysosome homeostasis during starvation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920749/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920749/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yu, Li -- McPhee, Christina K -- Zheng, Lixin -- Mardones, Gonzalo A -- Rong, Yueguang -- Peng, Junya -- Mi, Na -- Zhao, Ying -- Liu, Zhihua -- Wan, Fengyi -- Hailey, Dale W -- Oorschot, Viola -- Klumperman, Judith -- Baehrecke, Eric H -- Lenardo, Michael J -- 2010CB833704/CB/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM079431/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM079431/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Z01 AI000718-13/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- Z01 AI000718-14/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- ZIA AI000718-15/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 17;465(7300):942-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09076. Epub 2010 Jun 6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20526321" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Autophagy/*physiology ; Cell Line ; Cercopithecus aethiops ; HeLa Cells ; Homeostasis/physiology ; Humans ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/*metabolism ; Lysosomes/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; *Nutritional Physiological Phenomena ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism ; Rats ; Signal Transduction ; TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases ; Vero Cells
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-22
    Description: The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across most ages in both sexes. This is contributing to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes and its related epidemic. Having either parent obese is an independent risk factor for childhood obesity. Although the detrimental impacts of diet-induced maternal obesity on adiposity and metabolism in offspring are well established, the extent of any contribution of obese fathers is unclear, particularly the role of non-genetic factors in the causal pathway. Here we show that paternal high-fat-diet (HFD) exposure programs beta-cell 'dysfunction' in rat F(1) female offspring. Chronic HFD consumption in Sprague-Dawley fathers induced increased body weight, adiposity, impaired glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Relative to controls, their female offspring had an early onset of impaired insulin secretion and glucose tolerance that worsened with time, and normal adiposity. Paternal HFD altered the expression of 642 pancreatic islet genes in adult female offspring (P 〈 0.01); genes belonged to 13 functional clusters, including cation and ATP binding, cytoskeleton and intracellular transport. Broader pathway analysis of 2,492 genes differentially expressed (P 〈 0.05) demonstrated involvement of calcium-, MAPK- and Wnt-signalling pathways, apoptosis and the cell cycle. Hypomethylation of the Il13ra2 gene, which showed the highest fold difference in expression (1.76-fold increase), was demonstrated. This is the first report in mammals of non-genetic, intergenerational transmission of metabolic sequelae of a HFD from father to offspring.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ng, Sheau-Fang -- Lin, Ruby C Y -- Laybutt, D Ross -- Barres, Romain -- Owens, Julie A -- Morris, Margaret J -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):963-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09491.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20962845" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Adiposity/drug effects ; Aging/genetics ; Animals ; Apoptosis/genetics ; Body Weight/drug effects ; Cations/metabolism ; Cell Cycle/genetics ; Cytoskeleton/metabolism ; DNA Methylation/drug effects ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/etiology/pathology/physiopathology ; Diet/*adverse effects ; Dietary Fats/*administration & dosage/*adverse effects ; Epigenesis, Genetic/drug effects ; *Fathers ; Female ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Glucose/pharmacology ; Glucose Intolerance/etiology/pathology/physiopathology ; Glucose Tolerance Test ; Homeostasis/drug effects ; Insulin/secretion ; Insulin-Secreting Cells/metabolism/*pathology/secretion ; Litter Size ; Male ; Obesity/etiology/pathology/physiopathology ; Paternal Exposure/*adverse effects ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Signal Transduction/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
    Description: Cocaine addiction is characterized by a gradual loss of control over drug use, but the molecular mechanisms regulating vulnerability to this process remain unclear. Here we report that microRNA-212 (miR-212) is upregulated in the dorsal striatum of rats with a history of extended access to cocaine. Striatal miR-212 decreases responsiveness to the motivational properties of cocaine by markedly amplifying the stimulatory effects of the drug on cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) signalling. This action occurs through miR-212-enhanced Raf1 activity, resulting in adenylyl cyclase sensitization and increased expression of the essential CREB co-activator TORC (transducer of regulated CREB; also known as CRTC). Our findings indicate that striatal miR-212 signalling has a key role in determining vulnerability to cocaine addiction, reveal new molecular regulators that control the complex actions of cocaine in brain reward circuitries and provide an entirely new direction for the development of anti-addiction therapeutics based on the modulation of noncoding RNAs.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916751/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916751/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hollander, Jonathan A -- Im, Heh-In -- Amelio, Antonio L -- Kocerha, Jannet -- Bali, Purva -- Lu, Qun -- Willoughby, David -- Wahlestedt, Claes -- Conkright, Michael D -- Kenny, Paul J -- F32 CA134121/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- F32 DA024932/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA025983/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA025983-03/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 8;466(7303):197-202. doi: 10.1038/nature09202.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20613834" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenylyl Cyclases/metabolism ; Animals ; Cocaine/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/drug therapy/enzymology/*genetics/*metabolism ; Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/*metabolism ; MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases/metabolism ; Male ; MicroRNAs/biosynthesis/genetics/*metabolism ; Neostriatum/drug effects/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Reward ; *Signal Transduction/drug effects ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; Up-Regulation/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-18
    Description: Despite a rapidly-growing scientific and clinical brain imaging literature based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals, it remains controversial whether BOLD signals in a particular region can be caused by activation of local excitatory neurons. This difficult question is central to the interpretation and utility of BOLD, with major significance for fMRI studies in basic research and clinical applications. Using a novel integrated technology unifying optogenetic control of inputs with high-field fMRI signal readouts, we show here that specific stimulation of local CaMKIIalpha-expressing excitatory neurons, either in the neocortex or thalamus, elicits positive BOLD signals at the stimulus location with classical kinetics. We also show that optogenetic fMRI (of MRI) allows visualization of the causal effects of specific cell types defined not only by genetic identity and cell body location, but also by axonal projection target. Finally, we show that of MRI within the living and intact mammalian brain reveals BOLD signals in downstream targets distant from the stimulus, indicating that this approach can be used to map the global effects of controlling a local cell population. In this respect, unlike both conventional fMRI studies based on correlations and fMRI with electrical stimulation that will also directly drive afferent and nearby axons, this of MRI approach provides causal information about the global circuits recruited by defined local neuronal activity patterns. Together these findings provide an empirical foundation for the widely-used fMRI BOLD signal, and the features of of MRI define a potent tool that may be suitable for functional circuit analysis as well as global phenotyping of dysfunctional circuitry.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177305/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177305/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, Jin Hyung -- Durand, Remy -- Gradinaru, Viviana -- Zhang, Feng -- Goshen, Inbal -- Kim, Dae-Shik -- Fenno, Lief E -- Ramakrishnan, Charu -- Deisseroth, Karl -- 1K99EB008738/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R00 EB008738/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R00 EB008738-03/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 10;465(7299):788-92. doi: 10.1038/nature09108.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Electrical Engineering, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Bioengineering, and Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. ljinhy@gmail.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20473285" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/radiation effects ; Anesthesia ; Animals ; Brain/anatomy & histology/blood supply/*cytology/*radiation effects ; Cerebrovascular Circulation/radiation effects ; Chlorophyta ; Luminescent Measurements ; Luminescent Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; *Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Motor Cortex/blood supply/cytology/metabolism/radiation effects ; Neural Pathways/*radiation effects ; Neurons/classification/cytology/*metabolism/*radiation effects ; Oxygen/blood/metabolism ; Photic Stimulation ; Rats ; Rhodopsin/genetics/metabolism/radiation effects ; Thalamus/blood supply/cytology/metabolism/radiation effects
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Backmann, Jan -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 11;463(7282):729. doi: 10.1038/463729d.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148010" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Testing Alternatives/methods ; Animals ; Animals, Laboratory ; Chemical Industry/*methods ; Europe ; *Models, Animal ; Periodicals as Topic/standards ; *Rabbits ; Rats ; Reproduction/drug effects ; Toxicity Tests/*methods
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Santello, Mirko -- Volterra, Andrea -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):169-70. doi: 10.1038/463169a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Astrocytes/cytology/*metabolism/secretion ; Calcium/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Hippocampus/cytology/physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Memory/*physiology ; Rats ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/agonists/metabolism ; Serine/metabolism/secretion ; Synapses/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-07
    Description: Pancreatic insulin-producing beta-cells have a long lifespan, such that in healthy conditions they replicate little during a lifetime. Nevertheless, they show increased self-duplication after increased metabolic demand or after injury (that is, beta-cell loss). It is not known whether adult mammals can differentiate (regenerate) new beta-cells after extreme, total beta-cell loss, as in diabetes. This would indicate differentiation from precursors or another heterologous (non-beta-cell) source. Here we show beta-cell regeneration in a transgenic model of diphtheria-toxin-induced acute selective near-total beta-cell ablation. If given insulin, the mice survived and showed beta-cell mass augmentation with time. Lineage-tracing to label the glucagon-producing alpha-cells before beta-cell ablation tracked large fractions of regenerated beta-cells as deriving from alpha-cells, revealing a previously disregarded degree of pancreatic cell plasticity. Such inter-endocrine spontaneous adult cell conversion could be harnessed towards methods of producing beta-cells for diabetes therapies, either in differentiation settings in vitro or in induced regeneration.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877635/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877635/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Thorel, Fabrizio -- Nepote, Virginie -- Avril, Isabelle -- Kohno, Kenji -- Desgraz, Renaud -- Chera, Simona -- Herrera, Pedro L -- U01 DK072522/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 DK072522-01/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 DK072522-02/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 DK072522-03/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 DK072522-04/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- U01 DK072522-05/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 22;464(7292):1149-54. doi: 10.1038/nature08894. Epub 2010 Apr 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Physiology & Metabolism, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20364121" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biomarkers/metabolism ; Cell Count ; Cell Death/drug effects ; Cell Differentiation/*physiology ; Cell Lineage ; Cell Proliferation ; Cell Transdifferentiation/*physiology ; Cellular Reprogramming ; Diphtheria Toxin/pharmacology/toxicity ; Female ; Glucagon/biosynthesis/genetics/secretion ; Glucagon-Secreting Cells/*cytology/metabolism/secretion ; Humans ; Insulin/biosynthesis/pharmacology/secretion ; Insulin-Secreting Cells/*cytology/drug effects/metabolism/secretion ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Rats ; Regeneration/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-03-06
    Description: Injury causes a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that is clinically much like sepsis. Microbial pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) activate innate immunocytes through pattern recognition receptors. Similarly, cellular injury can release endogenous 'damage'-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that activate innate immunity. Mitochondria are evolutionary endosymbionts that were derived from bacteria and so might bear bacterial molecular motifs. Here we show that injury releases mitochondrial DAMPs (MTDs) into the circulation with functionally important immune consequences. MTDs include formyl peptides and mitochondrial DNA. These activate human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) through formyl peptide receptor-1 and Toll-like receptor (TLR) 9, respectively. MTDs promote PMN Ca(2+) flux and phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases, thus leading to PMN migration and degranulation in vitro and in vivo. Circulating MTDs can elicit neutrophil-mediated organ injury. Cellular disruption by trauma releases mitochondrial DAMPs with evolutionarily conserved similarities to bacterial PAMPs into the circulation. These signal through innate immune pathways identical to those activated in sepsis to create a sepsis-like state. The release of such mitochondrial 'enemies within' by cellular injury is a key link between trauma, inflammation and SIRS.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843437/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843437/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Qin -- Raoof, Mustafa -- Chen, Yu -- Sumi, Yuka -- Sursal, Tolga -- Junger, Wolfgang -- Brohi, Karim -- Itagaki, Kiyoshi -- Hauser, Carl J -- R01 GM059179/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM059179-08/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM059179-09/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):104-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08780.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20203610" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acute Lung Injury/immunology/pathology ; Animals ; Calcium Signaling ; Cells, Cultured ; CpG Islands/immunology ; DNA, Mitochondrial/blood/immunology ; Femur/injuries ; Fractures, Bone/immunology/pathology ; Humans ; Immunity, Innate/immunology ; Liver/immunology/injuries/pathology ; Male ; Mitochondria/*immunology/*secretion ; Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Muscle, Skeletal/immunology/pathology ; N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/immunology/metabolism ; Neutrophils/enzymology/immunology/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Receptors, Formyl Peptide/metabolism ; Sepsis/immunology/metabolism/microbiology ; Systemic Inflammatory Response ; Syndrome/blood/*complications/*immunology/pathology ; Toll-Like Receptor 9/metabolism ; Wounds and Injuries/blood/*complications/*immunology/pathology
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996390/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996390/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Leopold, David A -- ZIA MH002838-06/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- ZIC MH002899-04/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 10;465(7299):700-1. doi: 10.1038/465700a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20535195" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/radiation effects ; Anesthesia ; Animals ; Brain/*cytology/*radiation effects ; Cerebrovascular Circulation/radiation effects ; Humans ; *Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Mice ; Motor Cortex/cytology/metabolism/radiation effects ; Neural Pathways/*radiation effects ; Neurons/*metabolism/*radiation effects ; Photic Stimulation ; Rats ; Rhodopsin/metabolism/radiation effects ; Thalamus/cytology/metabolism/radiation effects
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
    Description: Many peptides, when released as chemical messengers within the brain, have powerful influences on complex behaviours. Most strikingly, vasopressin and oxytocin, once thought of as circulating hormones whose actions were confined to peripheral organs, are now known to be released in the brain, where they have fundamentally important roles in social behaviours. In humans, disruptions of these peptide systems have been linked to several neurobehavioural disorders, including Prader-Willi syndrome, affective disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and polymorphisms of V1a vasopressin receptor have been linked to autism. Here we report that the rat olfactory bulb contains a large population of interneurons which express vasopressin, that blocking the actions of vasopressin in the olfactory bulb impairs the social recognition abilities of rats and that vasopressin agonists and antagonists can modulate the processing of information by olfactory bulb neurons. The findings indicate that social information is processed in part by a vasopressin system intrinsic to the olfactory system.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842245/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842245/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tobin, Vicky A -- Hashimoto, Hirofumi -- Wacker, Douglas W -- Takayanagi, Yuki -- Langnaese, Kristina -- Caquineau, Celine -- Noack, Julia -- Landgraf, Rainer -- Onaka, Tatsushi -- Leng, Gareth -- Meddle, Simone L -- Engelmann, Mario -- Ludwig, Mike -- BB/F019009/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0700176/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 18;464(7287):413-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08826. Epub 2010 Feb 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182426" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antidiuretic Hormone Receptor Antagonists ; Interneurons/drug effects/metabolism ; Olfactory Bulb/cytology/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Rats, Wistar ; Receptors, Vasopressin/metabolism ; Recognition (Psychology)/drug effects/*physiology ; *Social Behavior ; Vasopressins/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-24
    Description: Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is critical in the regulation of vascular function, and can generate both nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide (O(2)(*-)), which are key mediators of cellular signalling. In the presence of Ca(2+)/calmodulin, eNOS produces NO, endothelial-derived relaxing factor, from l-arginine (l-Arg) by means of electron transfer from NADPH through a flavin containing reductase domain to oxygen bound at the haem of an oxygenase domain, which also contains binding sites for tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)) and l-Arg. In the absence of BH(4), NO synthesis is abrogated and instead O(2)(*-) is generated. While NOS dysfunction occurs in diseases with redox stress, BH(4) repletion only partly restores NOS activity and NOS-dependent vasodilation. This suggests that there is an as yet unidentified redox-regulated mechanism controlling NOS function. Protein thiols can undergo S-glutathionylation, a reversible protein modification involved in cellular signalling and adaptation. Under oxidative stress, S-glutathionylation occurs through thiol-disulphide exchange with oxidized glutathione or reaction of oxidant-induced protein thiyl radicals with reduced glutathione. Cysteine residues are critical for the maintenance of eNOS function; we therefore speculated that oxidative stress could alter eNOS activity through S-glutathionylation. Here we show that S-glutathionylation of eNOS reversibly decreases NOS activity with an increase in O(2)(*-) generation primarily from the reductase, in which two highly conserved cysteine residues are identified as sites of S-glutathionylation and found to be critical for redox-regulation of eNOS function. We show that eNOS S-glutathionylation in endothelial cells, with loss of NO and gain of O(2)(*-) generation, is associated with impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation. In hypertensive vessels, eNOS S-glutathionylation is increased with impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation that is restored by thiol-specific reducing agents, which reverse this S-glutathionylation. Thus, S-glutathionylation of eNOS is a pivotal switch providing redox regulation of cellular signalling, endothelial function and vascular tone.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370391/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370391/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Chun-An -- Wang, Tse-Yao -- Varadharaj, Saradhadevi -- Reyes, Levy A -- Hemann, Craig -- Talukder, M A Hassan -- Chen, Yeong-Renn -- Druhan, Lawrence J -- Zweier, Jay L -- K99 HL103846/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- K99 HL103846-02/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL038324/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL038324-20/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL063744/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL063744-09/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL103846/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL38324/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL63744/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL65608/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01HL83237/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 23;468(7327):1115-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09599.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179168" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cattle ; Cells, Cultured ; Dithiothreitol/pharmacology ; Endothelial Cells/metabolism ; Endothelium, Vascular/*metabolism ; Glutathione/*metabolism ; Humans ; Male ; Mercaptoethanol/pharmacology ; Mutation ; Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/genetics/*metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred SHR ; Rats, Inbred WKY ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Reducing Agents/pharmacology ; Signal Transduction ; Vasodilation/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: African sleeping sickness or human African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp., is responsible for approximately 30,000 deaths each year. Available treatments for this disease are poor, with unacceptable efficacy and safety profiles, particularly in the late stage of the disease when the parasite has infected the central nervous system. Here we report the validation of a molecular target and the discovery of associated lead compounds with the potential to address this lack of suitable treatments. Inhibition of this target-T. brucei N-myristoyltransferase-leads to rapid killing of trypanosomes both in vitro and in vivo and cures trypanosomiasis in mice. These high-affinity inhibitors bind into the peptide substrate pocket of the enzyme and inhibit protein N-myristoylation in trypanosomes. The compounds identified have promising pharmaceutical properties and represent an opportunity to develop oral drugs to treat this devastating disease. Our studies validate T. brucei N-myristoyltransferase as a promising therapeutic target for human African trypanosomiasis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917743/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917743/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Frearson, Julie A -- Brand, Stephen -- McElroy, Stuart P -- Cleghorn, Laura A T -- Smid, Ondrej -- Stojanovski, Laste -- Price, Helen P -- Guther, M Lucia S -- Torrie, Leah S -- Robinson, David A -- Hallyburton, Irene -- Mpamhanga, Chidochangu P -- Brannigan, James A -- Wilkinson, Anthony J -- Hodgkinson, Michael -- Hui, Raymond -- Qiu, Wei -- Raimi, Olawale G -- van Aalten, Daan M F -- Brenk, Ruth -- Gilbert, Ian H -- Read, Kevin D -- Fairlamb, Alan H -- Ferguson, Michael A J -- Smith, Deborah F -- Wyatt, Paul G -- 077503/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 077705/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 085622/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 087590/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 1097737/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- G0900138/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0900138(90614)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- WT077503/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- WT077705/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- WT083481,/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- WT085622/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):728-32. doi: 10.1038/nature08893.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360736" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acyltransferases/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Aminopyridines/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Animals ; Antiparasitic Agents/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology/*therapeutic use ; Enzyme Assays ; Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Female ; Humans ; Mice ; Molecular Structure ; Pyrazoles/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Rats ; Sulfonamides/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Time Factors ; Trypanosoma brucei brucei/*drug effects/*enzymology/growth & development ; Trypanosomiasis, African/*drug therapy/*parasitology
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-24
    Description: Cancer is a disease consisting of both genetic and epigenetic changes. Although increasing evidence demonstrates that tumour progression entails chromatin-mediated changes such as DNA methylation, the role of histone variants in cancer initiation and progression currently remains unclear. Histone variants replace conventional histones within the nucleosome and confer unique biological functions to chromatin. Here we report that the histone variant macroH2A (mH2A) suppresses tumour progression of malignant melanoma. Loss of mH2A isoforms, histone variants generally associated with condensed chromatin and fine-tuning of developmental gene expression programs, is positively correlated with increasing malignant phenotype of melanoma cells in culture and human tissue samples. Knockdown of mH2A isoforms in melanoma cells of low malignancy results in significantly increased proliferation and migration in vitro and growth and metastasis in vivo. Restored expression of mH2A isoforms rescues these malignant phenotypes in vitro and in vivo. We demonstrate that the tumour-promoting function of mH2A loss is mediated, at least in part, through direct transcriptional upregulation of CDK8. Suppression of CDK8, a colorectal cancer oncogene, inhibits proliferation of melanoma cells, and knockdown of CDK8 in cells depleted of mH2A suppresses the proliferative advantage induced by mH2A loss. Moreover, a significant inverse correlation between mH2A and CDK8 expression levels exists in melanoma patient samples. Taken together, our results demonstrate that mH2A is a critical component of chromatin that suppresses the development of malignant melanoma, a highly intractable cutaneous neoplasm.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057940/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057940/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kapoor, Avnish -- Goldberg, Matthew S -- Cumberland, Lara K -- Ratnakumar, Kajan -- Segura, Miguel F -- Emanuel, Patrick O -- Menendez, Silvia -- Vardabasso, Chiara -- Leroy, Gary -- Vidal, Claudia I -- Polsky, David -- Osman, Iman -- Garcia, Benjamin A -- Hernando, Eva -- Bernstein, Emily -- 5P30CA016087-27/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA109388/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA150117/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA150117-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21 CA150117-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R21CA150117/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 23;468(7327):1105-9. doi: 10.1038/nature09590.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10029, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179167" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Movement ; Cell Proliferation ; Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 8/*metabolism ; Disease Progression ; Gene Expression Profiling ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Gene Knockdown Techniques ; HCT116 Cells ; Histones/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Humans ; Melanoma/*pathology/physiopathology ; Melanoma, Experimental ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Neoplasm Metastasis/*pathology/physiopathology ; Rats ; Up-Regulation
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-09
    Description: B-RAF is the most frequently mutated protein kinase in human cancers. The finding that oncogenic mutations in BRAF are common in melanoma, followed by the demonstration that these tumours are dependent on the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway, offered hope that inhibition of B-RAF kinase activity could benefit melanoma patients. Herein, we describe the structure-guided discovery of PLX4032 (RG7204), a potent inhibitor of oncogenic B-RAF kinase activity. Preclinical experiments demonstrated that PLX4032 selectively blocked the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway in BRAF mutant cells and caused regression of BRAF mutant xenografts. Toxicology studies confirmed a wide safety margin consistent with the high degree of selectivity, enabling Phase 1 clinical trials using a crystalline formulation of PLX4032 (ref. 5). In a subset of melanoma patients, pathway inhibition was monitored in paired biopsy specimens collected before treatment initiation and following two weeks of treatment. This analysis revealed substantial inhibition of ERK phosphorylation, yet clinical evaluation did not show tumour regressions. At higher drug exposures afforded by a new amorphous drug formulation, greater than 80% inhibition of ERK phosphorylation in the tumours of patients correlated with clinical response. Indeed, the Phase 1 clinical data revealed a remarkably high 81% response rate in metastatic melanoma patients treated at an oral dose of 960 mg twice daily. These data demonstrate that BRAF-mutant melanomas are highly dependent on B-RAF kinase activity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948082/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948082/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bollag, Gideon -- Hirth, Peter -- Tsai, James -- Zhang, Jiazhong -- Ibrahim, Prabha N -- Cho, Hanna -- Spevak, Wayne -- Zhang, Chao -- Zhang, Ying -- Habets, Gaston -- Burton, Elizabeth A -- Wong, Bernice -- Tsang, Garson -- West, Brian L -- Powell, Ben -- Shellooe, Rafe -- Marimuthu, Adhirai -- Nguyen, Hoa -- Zhang, Kam Y J -- Artis, Dean R -- Schlessinger, Joseph -- Su, Fei -- Higgins, Brian -- Iyer, Raman -- D'Andrea, Kurt -- Koehler, Astrid -- Stumm, Michael -- Lin, Paul S -- Lee, Richard J -- Grippo, Joseph -- Puzanov, Igor -- Kim, Kevin B -- Ribas, Antoni -- McArthur, Grant A -- Sosman, Jeffrey A -- Chapman, Paul B -- Flaherty, Keith T -- Xu, Xiaowei -- Nathanson, Katherine L -- Nolop, Keith -- K24 CA097588/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA093372/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA093372-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA118871/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA118871-01A1/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):596-9. doi: 10.1038/nature09454.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Plexxikon Inc., 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, California 94710, USA. gbollag@plexxikon.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20823850" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; Dogs ; Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Humans ; Indoles/administration & dosage/adverse effects/chemistry/*therapeutic use ; MAP Kinase Signaling System/drug effects ; Macaca fascicularis ; Melanoma/*drug therapy/*enzymology/genetics/pathology ; Models, Molecular ; Mutant Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Mutation/*genetics ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Phosphorylation/drug effects ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/*antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Substrate Specificity ; Sulfonamides/administration & dosage/adverse effects/chemistry/*therapeutic use ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-26
    Description: In a recent Letter to Nature, Lee and colleagues combined optogenetic stimulation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (ofMRI) to examine the relationship between pyramidal-cell spiking and the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal. To do so, they injected an adeno-associated viral vector into the primary motor cortex (M1) of adult rats to drive the expression of channelrhodopsin (ChR2) in cortical projection neurons, thus making them sensitive to light. The authors then used combined light stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effects of selective activation of the light-sensitive pyramidal cells on the BOLD signal, as well as to probe the value of this methodology for mapping brain connectivity. They found that excitation of these neurons induced positive BOLD signals both in the injected M1 region and in remote target thalamic nuclei receiving direct projections from that region, and concluded that ofMRI reliably links positive BOLD signals with increased local neuronal excitation. However, their analysis neglects the almost immediate activation of other circuits that could lead to the generation of BOLD signals through local perisynaptic rather than spiking activity. Their experiments therefore do not pin down the identity of the specific neuronal signals that give rise to the BOLD signal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Logothetis, Nikos K -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 25;468(7323):E3-4; discussion E4-5. doi: 10.1038/nature09532.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. nikos.logothetis@tuebingen.mpg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21107378" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Motor Cortex/physiology ; Neurons/physiology ; Oxygen/blood ; Photic Stimulation ; Pyramidal Cells/*metabolism ; Rats ; Research/standards ; Rhodopsin/metabolism ; *Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: The thymus develops from the third pharyngeal pouch of the anterior gut and provides the necessary environment for thymopoiesis (the process by which thymocytes differentiate into mature T lymphocytes) and the establishment and maintenance of self-tolerance. It contains thymic epithelial cells (TECs) that form a complex three-dimensional network organized in cortical and medullary compartments, the organization of which is notably different from simple or stratified epithelia. TECs have an essential role in the generation of self-tolerant thymocytes through expression of the autoimmune regulator Aire, but the mechanisms involved in the specification and maintenance of TECs remain unclear. Despite the different embryological origins of thymus and skin (endodermal and ectodermal, respectively), some cells of the thymic medulla express stratified-epithelium markers, interpreted as promiscuous gene expression. Here we show that the thymus of the rat contains a population of clonogenic TECs that can be extensively cultured while conserving the capacity to integrate in a thymic epithelial network and to express major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC II) molecules and Aire. These cells can irreversibly adopt the fate of hair follicle multipotent stem cells when exposed to an inductive skin microenvironment; this change in fate is correlated with robust changes in gene expression. Hence, microenvironmental cues are sufficient here to re-direct epithelial cell fate, allowing crossing of primitive germ layer boundaries and an increase in potency.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bonfanti, Paola -- Claudinot, Stephanie -- Amici, Alessandro W -- Farley, Alison -- Blackburn, C Clare -- Barrandon, Yann -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):978-82. doi: 10.1038/nature09269.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Stem Cell Dynamics, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20725041" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Culture Techniques ; *Cell Dedifferentiation ; Cell Lineage/physiology ; *Cell Transdifferentiation ; Cells, Cultured ; *Cellular Reprogramming ; Clone Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Epithelial Cells/*cytology/metabolism ; Female ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Hair Follicle/cytology ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Multipotent Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Skin/*cytology/embryology ; Thymus Gland/*cytology/embryology ; Transcription Factors/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
    Description: Vascular endothelial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) form a barrier that restricts the movement of molecules and ions between the blood and the brain. This blood-brain barrier (BBB) is crucial to ensure proper neuronal function and protect the CNS from injury and disease. Transplantation studies have demonstrated that the BBB is not intrinsic to the endothelial cells, but is induced by interactions with the neural cells. Owing to the close spatial relationship between astrocytes and endothelial cells, it has been hypothesized that astrocytes induce this critical barrier postnatally, but the timing of BBB formation has been controversial. Here we demonstrate that the barrier is formed during embryogenesis as endothelial cells invade the CNS and pericytes are recruited to the nascent vessels, over a week before astrocyte generation. Analysing mice with null and hypomorphic alleles of Pdgfrb, which have defects in pericyte generation, we demonstrate that pericytes are necessary for the formation of the BBB, and that absolute pericyte coverage determines relative vascular permeability. We demonstrate that pericytes regulate functional aspects of the BBB, including the formation of tight junctions and vesicle trafficking in CNS endothelial cells. Pericytes do not induce BBB-specific gene expression in CNS endothelial cells, but inhibit the expression of molecules that increase vascular permeability and CNS immune cell infiltration. These data indicate that pericyte-endothelial cell interactions are critical to regulate the BBB during development, and disruption of these interactions may lead to BBB dysfunction and neuroinflammation during CNS injury and disease.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241506/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241506/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Daneman, Richard -- Zhou, Lu -- Kebede, Amanuel A -- Barres, Ben A -- R01 NS045621/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS045621-04/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01-NS045621/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 25;468(7323):562-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09513. Epub 2010 Oct 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉UCSF Department of Anatomy, 513 Parnassus Avenue, HSW1301, San Francisco, California 94143-0452, USA. Richard.daneman@ucsf.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944625" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Blood-Brain Barrier/*cytology/*embryology/ultrastructure ; Cells, Cultured ; Central Nervous System/blood supply/cytology/*embryology ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Knockout ; Pericytes/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-20
    Description: GABA(B) receptors are the G-protein-coupled receptors for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. They are expressed in almost all neurons of the brain, where they regulate synaptic transmission and signal propagation by controlling the activity of voltage-gated calcium (Ca(v)) and inward-rectifier potassium (K(ir)) channels. Molecular cloning revealed that functional GABA(B) receptors are formed by the heteromeric assembly of GABA(B1) with GABA(B2) subunits. However, cloned GABA(B(1,2)) receptors failed to reproduce the functional diversity observed with native GABA(B) receptors. Here we show by functional proteomics that GABA(B) receptors in the brain are high-molecular-mass complexes of GABA(B1), GABA(B2) and members of a subfamily of the KCTD (potassium channel tetramerization domain-containing) proteins. KCTD proteins 8, 12, 12b and 16 show distinct expression profiles in the brain and associate tightly with the carboxy terminus of GABA(B2) as tetramers. This co-assembly changes the properties of the GABA(B(1,2)) core receptor: the KCTD proteins increase agonist potency and markedly alter the G-protein signalling of the receptors by accelerating onset and promoting desensitization in a KCTD-subtype-specific manner. Taken together, our results establish the KCTD proteins as auxiliary subunits of GABA(B) receptors that determine the pharmacology and kinetics of the receptor response.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schwenk, Jochen -- Metz, Michaela -- Zolles, Gerd -- Turecek, Rostislav -- Fritzius, Thorsten -- Bildl, Wolfgang -- Tarusawa, Etsuko -- Kulik, Akos -- Unger, Andreas -- Ivankova, Klara -- Seddik, Riad -- Tiao, Jim Y -- Rajalu, Mathieu -- Trojanova, Johana -- Rohde, Volker -- Gassmann, Martin -- Schulte, Uwe -- Fakler, Bernd -- Bettler, Bernhard -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 13;465(7295):231-5. doi: 10.1038/nature08964. Epub 2010 Apr 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Physiology II, University of Freiburg, Engesserstrasse 4, 79108 Freiburg, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20400944" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; CHO Cells ; Cricetinae ; Cricetulus ; Electric Conductivity ; GABA-B Receptor Agonists ; Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Kinetics ; Mice ; Multiprotein Complexes/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Neurons/metabolism ; Oocytes/metabolism ; Potassium/metabolism ; Potassium Channels/metabolism ; *Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Subunits/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Receptors, GABA-B/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 2011-02-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Saper, Clifford B -- England -- Nature. 2011 Feb 10;470(7333):179-81. doi: 10.1038/470179a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21307926" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aggression/drug effects/*physiology ; Animals ; Cats ; Electric Stimulation ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation/genetics ; Genes, fos/genetics ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Neural Inhibition/drug effects/genetics/physiology ; Neural Pathways/drug effects/physiology ; Neurons/drug effects/physiology ; Rats ; Sex Characteristics ; Sexual Behavior, Animal/drug effects/physiology ; Time Factors ; Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus/anatomy & histology/*cytology/drug ; effects/*physiology ; Violence
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    Publication Date: 2011-01-29
    Description: We report that, in the rat, administering insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II, also known as IGF2) significantly enhances memory retention and prevents forgetting. Inhibitory avoidance learning leads to an increase in hippocampal expression of IGF-II, which requires the transcription factor CCAAT enhancer binding protein beta and is essential for memory consolidation. Furthermore, injections of recombinant IGF-II into the hippocampus after either training or memory retrieval significantly enhance memory retention and prevent forgetting. To be effective, IGF-II needs to be administered within a sensitive period of memory consolidation. IGF-II-dependent memory enhancement requires IGF-II receptors, new protein synthesis, the function of activity-regulated cytoskeletal-associated protein and glycogen-synthase kinase 3 (GSK3). Moreover, it correlates with a significant activation of synaptic GSK3beta and increased expression of GluR1 (also known as GRIA1) alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxasolepropionic acid receptor subunits. In hippocampal slices, IGF-II promotes IGF-II receptor-dependent, persistent long-term potentiation after weak synaptic stimulation. Thus, IGF-II may represent a novel target for cognitive enhancement therapies.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3908455/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3908455/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Dillon Y -- Stern, Sarah A -- Garcia-Osta, Ana -- Saunier-Rebori, Bernadette -- Pollonini, Gabriella -- Bambah-Mukku, Dhananjay -- Blitzer, Robert D -- Alberini, Cristina M -- F31-MH816213/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH065635/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH074736/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM054508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-MH065635/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01-MH074736/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R21-DA29298/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- T32 MH087004/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- T32-MH087004/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 27;469(7331):491-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09667.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21270887" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Hippocampus/drug effects/*metabolism ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Long-Term Potentiation/physiology ; Male ; Memory/drug effects/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Long-Evans ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-15
    Description: Individuals make choices and prioritize goals using complex processes that assign value to rewards and associated stimuli. During Pavlovian learning, previously neutral stimuli that predict rewards can acquire motivational properties, becoming attractive and desirable incentive stimuli. However, whether a cue acts solely as a predictor of reward, or also serves as an incentive stimulus, differs between individuals. Thus, individuals vary in the degree to which cues bias choice and potentially promote maladaptive behaviour. Here we use rats that differ in the incentive motivational properties they attribute to food cues to probe the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in stimulus-reward learning. We show that intact dopamine transmission is not required for all forms of learning in which reward cues become effective predictors. Rather, dopamine acts selectively in a form of stimulus-reward learning in which incentive salience is assigned to reward cues. In individuals with a propensity for this form of learning, reward cues come to powerfully motivate and control behaviour. This work provides insight into the neurobiology of a form of stimulus-reward learning that confers increased susceptibility to disorders of impulse control.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058375/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058375/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Flagel, Shelly B -- Clark, Jeremy J -- Robinson, Terry E -- Mayo, Leah -- Czuj, Alayna -- Willuhn, Ingo -- Akers, Christina A -- Clinton, Sarah M -- Phillips, Paul E M -- Akil, Huda -- 5P01-DA021633-02/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- F32-DA24540/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- P01 DA021633/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- P01 DA021633-02/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R00 MH085859/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R00 MH085859-02/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA027858/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH079292/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01-DA027858/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01-MH079292/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R37-DA04294/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- T32-DA07278/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 6;469(7328):53-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09588. Epub 2010 Dec 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150898" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Conditioning, Classical/drug effects/physiology ; *Cues ; Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders/physiopathology ; Dopamine/*metabolism ; Dopamine Antagonists/pharmacology ; Flupenthixol/pharmacology ; Food ; Learning/drug effects/*physiology ; Male ; Microelectrodes ; *Models, Neurological ; Motivation/drug effects ; Nucleus Accumbens/metabolism ; Phenotype ; Probability ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; *Reward ; Signal Transduction ; Synaptic Transmission
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    Publication Date: 2011-07-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zukor, Katherine -- He, Zhigang -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jul 13;475(7355):177-8. doi: 10.1038/475178a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Kirby Program in Neuroscience, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. katherine.zukor@childrens.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21753842" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/physiology ; Chondroitin ABC Lyase/metabolism ; Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans/metabolism ; Diaphragm/innervation/physiology ; Electromyography ; Extracellular Matrix/metabolism ; Humans ; Nerve Regeneration/*physiology ; Neuronal Plasticity/physiology ; Phrenic Nerve/cytology/physiology/transplantation ; Rats ; *Respiration ; Spinal Cord Injuries/*physiopathology
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-21
    Description: The fidelity and specificity of information flow within a cell is controlled by scaffolding proteins that assemble and link enzymes into signalling circuits. These circuits can be inhibited by bacterial effector proteins that post-translationally modify individual pathway components. However, there is emerging evidence that pathogens directly organize higher-order signalling networks through enzyme scaffolding, and the identity of the effectors and their mechanisms of action are poorly understood. Here we identify the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 type III effector EspG as a regulator of endomembrane trafficking using a functional screen, and report ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPases and p21-activated kinases (PAKs) as its relevant host substrates. The 2.5 A crystal structure of EspG in complex with ARF6 shows how EspG blocks GTPase-activating-protein-assisted GTP hydrolysis, revealing a potent mechanism of GTPase signalling inhibition at organelle membranes. In addition, the 2.8 A crystal structure of EspG in complex with the autoinhibitory Ialpha3-helix of PAK2 defines a previously unknown catalytic site in EspG and provides an allosteric mechanism of kinase activation by a bacterial effector. Unexpectedly, ARF and PAKs are organized on adjacent surfaces of EspG, indicating its role as a 'catalytic scaffold' that effectively reprograms cellular events through the functional assembly of GTPase-kinase signalling complex.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3675890/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3675890/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Selyunin, Andrey S -- Sutton, Sarah E -- Weigele, Bethany A -- Reddick, L Evan -- Orchard, Robert C -- Bresson, Stefan M -- Tomchick, Diana R -- Alto, Neal M -- 1R01AI083359-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- 5T32AI007520-12/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI083359/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI083359-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI007520/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI007520-12/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 6;469(7328):107-11. doi: 10.1038/nature09593. Epub 2010 Dec 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-8816, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170023" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: ADP-Ribosylation Factors/chemistry/*metabolism ; Allosteric Regulation ; Animals ; *Biocatalysis ; Biological Transport ; Catalytic Domain ; Cell Line ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Enzyme Activation ; Escherichia coli O157/*chemistry/metabolism ; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Golgi Apparatus/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/chemistry/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrolysis ; Intracellular Membranes/metabolism ; Mice ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Interaction Mapping ; Protein Unfolding ; Rats ; *Signal Transduction ; Two-Hybrid System Techniques ; p21-Activated Kinases/chemistry/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2011-11-08
    Description: Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are a promising source of cells for applications in regenerative medicine. Directed differentiation of PSCs into specialized cells such as spinal motoneurons or midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons has been achieved. However, the effective use of PSCs for cell therapy has lagged behind. Whereas mouse PSC-derived DA neurons have shown efficacy in models of Parkinson's disease, DA neurons from human PSCs generally show poor in vivo performance. There are also considerable safety concerns for PSCs related to their potential for teratoma formation or neural overgrowth. Here we present a novel floor-plate-based strategy for the derivation of human DA neurons that efficiently engraft in vivo, suggesting that past failures were due to incomplete specification rather than a specific vulnerability of the cells. Midbrain floor-plate precursors are derived from PSCs 11 days after exposure to small molecule activators of sonic hedgehog (SHH) and canonical WNT signalling. Engraftable midbrain DA neurons are obtained by day 25 and can be maintained in vitro for several months. Extensive molecular profiling, biochemical and electrophysiological data define developmental progression and confirm identity of PSC-derived midbrain DA neurons. In vivo survival and function is demonstrated in Parkinson's disease models using three host species. Long-term engraftment in 6-hydroxy-dopamine-lesioned mice and rats demonstrates robust survival of midbrain DA neurons derived from human embryonic stem (ES) cells, complete restoration of amphetamine-induced rotation behaviour and improvements in tests of forelimb use and akinesia. Finally, scalability is demonstrated by transplantation into parkinsonian monkeys. Excellent DA neuron survival, function and lack of neural overgrowth in the three animal models indicate promise for the development of cell-based therapies in Parkinson's disease.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245796/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245796/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kriks, Sonja -- Shim, Jae-Won -- Piao, Jinghua -- Ganat, Yosif M -- Wakeman, Dustin R -- Xie, Zhong -- Carrillo-Reid, Luis -- Auyeung, Gordon -- Antonacci, Chris -- Buch, Amanda -- Yang, Lichuan -- Beal, M Flint -- Surmeier, D James -- Kordower, Jeffrey H -- Tabar, Viviane -- Studer, Lorenz -- NS052671/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P50 NS047085/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P50 NS071669/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P50 NS071669-03/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Nov 6;480(7378):547-51. doi: 10.1038/nature10648.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22056989" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Brain Tissue Transplantation ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; Dopaminergic Neurons/*cytology/*transplantation ; Embryonic Stem Cells/*cytology ; Female ; Humans ; Macaca mulatta ; Mesencephalon/cytology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred NOD ; Mice, SCID ; Parkinson Disease/*therapy ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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    Publication Date: 2011-09-09
    Description: The calcium-transporting ATPase ATP2A2, also known as SERCA2a, is a critical ATPase responsible for Ca(2+) re-uptake during excitation-contraction coupling. Impaired Ca(2+) uptake resulting from decreased expression and reduced activity of SERCA2a is a hallmark of heart failure. Accordingly, restoration of SERCA2a expression by gene transfer has proved to be effective in improving cardiac function in heart-failure patients, as well as in animal models. The small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) can be conjugated to lysine residues of target proteins, and is involved in many cellular processes. Here we show that SERCA2a is SUMOylated at lysines 480 and 585 and that this SUMOylation is essential for preserving SERCA2a ATPase activity and stability in mouse and human cells. The levels of SUMO1 and the SUMOylation of SERCA2a itself were greatly reduced in failing hearts. SUMO1 restitution by adeno-associated-virus-mediated gene delivery maintained the protein abundance of SERCA2a and markedly improved cardiac function in mice with heart failure. This effect was comparable to SERCA2A gene delivery. Moreover, SUMO1 overexpression in isolated cardiomyocytes augmented contractility and accelerated Ca(2+) decay. Transgene-mediated SUMO1 overexpression rescued cardiac dysfunction induced by pressure overload concomitantly with increased SERCA2a function. By contrast, downregulation of SUMO1 using small hairpin RNA (shRNA) accelerated pressure-overload-induced deterioration of cardiac function and was accompanied by decreased SERCA2a function. However, knockdown of SERCA2a resulted in severe contractile dysfunction both in vitro and in vivo, which was not rescued by overexpression of SUMO1. Taken together, our data show that SUMOylation is a critical post-translational modification that regulates SERCA2a function, and provide a platform for the design of novel therapeutic strategies for heart failure.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443490/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443490/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kho, Changwon -- Lee, Ahyoung -- Jeong, Dongtak -- Oh, Jae Gyun -- Chaanine, Antoine H -- Kizana, Eddy -- Park, Woo Jin -- Hajjar, Roger J -- HL080498/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL093183/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P20 HL100396/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P20 HL100396-02/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P20HL100396/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL078731/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL078731-04/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL080498/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL080498-05/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL083156/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL083156-05/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088434/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088434-02/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Sep 7;477(7366):601-5. doi: 10.1038/nature10407.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cardiovascular Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1030, New York, New York 10029, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21900893" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; HEK293 Cells ; Heart Failure/*metabolism/physiopathology ; Humans ; Lysine/metabolism ; Mice ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; SUMO-1 Protein/genetics/*metabolism ; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases/*metabolism ; *Sumoylation ; Sus scrofa
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    Publication Date: 2011-02-26
    Description: Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is known to broadly regulate the cellular stress response. In contrast, it is unclear if the PACAP-PAC1 receptor pathway has a role in human psychological stress responses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here we find, in heavily traumatized subjects, a sex-specific association of PACAP blood levels with fear physiology, PTSD diagnosis and symptoms in females. We examined 44 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning the PACAP (encoded by ADCYAP1) and PAC1 (encoded by ADCYAP1R1) genes, demonstrating a sex-specific association with PTSD. A single SNP in a putative oestrogen response element within ADCYAP1R1, rs2267735, predicts PTSD diagnosis and symptoms in females only. This SNP also associates with fear discrimination and with ADCYAP1R1 messenger RNA expression in human brain. Methylation of ADCYAP1R1 in peripheral blood is also associated with PTSD. Complementing these human data, ADCYAP1R1 mRNA is induced with fear conditioning or oestrogen replacement in rodent models. These data suggest that perturbations in the PACAP-PAC1 pathway are involved in abnormal stress responses underlying PTSD. These sex-specific effects may occur via oestrogen regulation of ADCYAP1R1. PACAP levels and ADCYAP1R1 SNPs may serve as useful biomarkers to further our mechanistic understanding of PTSD.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046811/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046811/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ressler, Kerry J -- Mercer, Kristina B -- Bradley, Bekh -- Jovanovic, Tanja -- Mahan, Amy -- Kerley, Kimberly -- Norrholm, Seth D -- Kilaru, Varun -- Smith, Alicia K -- Myers, Amanda J -- Ramirez, Manuel -- Engel, Anzhelika -- Hammack, Sayamwong E -- Toufexis, Donna -- Braas, Karen M -- Binder, Elisabeth B -- May, Victor -- AG034504/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- DA019624/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- HD27468/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- M01RR00039/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- MH071537/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P20RR16435/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG034504/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD027468/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD027468-13/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- UL1 TR000454/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Feb 24;470(7335):492-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09856.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA. kressle@emory.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21350482" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amygdala/metabolism ; Animals ; Conditioning, Classical/physiology ; CpG Islands/genetics ; DNA Methylation ; Estrogens/metabolism/pharmacology ; Fear/physiology ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; Genetic Association Studies ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide/*blood/chemistry ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; RNA, Messenger/analysis/biosynthesis/genetics ; Rats ; Receptors, Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide, Type I/*genetics ; Response Elements/genetics ; Septal Nuclei/drug effects/metabolism ; Sex Characteristics ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*blood/*genetics/physiopathology/psychology
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    Publication Date: 2011-03-25
    Description: Melanoma is a tumour of transformed melanocytes, which are originally derived from the embryonic neural crest. It is unknown to what extent the programs that regulate neural crest development interact with mutations in the BRAF oncogene, which is the most commonly mutated gene in human melanoma. We have used zebrafish embryos to identify the initiating transcriptional events that occur on activation of human BRAF(V600E) (which encodes an amino acid substitution mutant of BRAF) in the neural crest lineage. Zebrafish embryos that are transgenic for mitfa:BRAF(V600E) and lack p53 (also known as tp53) have a gene signature that is enriched for markers of multipotent neural crest cells, and neural crest progenitors from these embryos fail to terminally differentiate. To determine whether these early transcriptional events are important for melanoma pathogenesis, we performed a chemical genetic screen to identify small-molecule suppressors of the neural crest lineage, which were then tested for their effects on melanoma. One class of compound, inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), for example leflunomide, led to an almost complete abrogation of neural crest development in zebrafish and to a reduction in the self-renewal of mammalian neural crest stem cells. Leflunomide exerts these effects by inhibiting the transcriptional elongation of genes that are required for neural crest development and melanoma growth. When used alone or in combination with a specific inhibitor of the BRAF(V600E) oncogene, DHODH inhibition led to a marked decrease in melanoma growth both in vitro and in mouse xenograft studies. Taken together, these studies highlight developmental pathways in neural crest cells that have a direct bearing on melanoma formation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759979/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759979/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉White, Richard Mark -- Cech, Jennifer -- Ratanasirintrawoot, Sutheera -- Lin, Charles Y -- Rahl, Peter B -- Burke, Christopher J -- Langdon, Erin -- Tomlinson, Matthew L -- Mosher, Jack -- Kaufman, Charles -- Chen, Frank -- Long, Hannah K -- Kramer, Martin -- Datta, Sumon -- Neuberg, Donna -- Granter, Scott -- Young, Richard A -- Morrison, Sean -- Wheeler, Grant N -- Zon, Leonard I -- K08 AR055368/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA103846/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG002668/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG002668-08/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009172/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):518-22. doi: 10.1038/nature09882.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stem Cell Program and Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21430780" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Cell Differentiation/drug effects ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Lineage/drug effects ; Disease Models, Animal ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Genes, p53/genetics ; Humans ; Isoxazoles/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Melanoma/drug therapy/enzymology/*genetics/*pathology ; Mice ; Neural Crest/drug effects/*enzymology/metabolism/pathology ; Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/pathology ; *Transcription, Genetic/drug effects/physiology ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays ; Zebrafish/embryology/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
    Description: Brain changes in response to nerve damage or cochlear trauma can generate pathological neural activity that is believed to be responsible for many types of chronic pain and tinnitus. Several studies have reported that the severity of chronic pain and tinnitus is correlated with the degree of map reorganization in somatosensory and auditory cortex, respectively. Direct electrical or transcranial magnetic stimulation of sensory cortex can temporarily disrupt these phantom sensations. However, there is as yet no direct evidence for a causal role of plasticity in the generation of pain or tinnitus. Here we report evidence that reversing the brain changes responsible can eliminate the perceptual impairment in an animal model of noise-induced tinnitus. Exposure to intense noise degrades the frequency tuning of auditory cortex neurons and increases cortical synchronization. Repeatedly pairing tones with brief pulses of vagus nerve stimulation completely eliminated the physiological and behavioural correlates of tinnitus in noise-exposed rats. These improvements persisted for weeks after the end of therapy. This method for restoring neural activity to normal may be applicable to a variety of neurological disorders.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295231/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295231/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Engineer, Navzer D -- Riley, Jonathan R -- Seale, Jonathan D -- Vrana, Will A -- Shetake, Jai A -- Sudanagunta, Sindhu P -- Borland, Michael S -- Kilgard, Michael P -- R43 DC010084-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R44 DC010084-03/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Feb 3;470(7332):101-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09656. Epub 2011 Jan 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cortical Plasticity Laboratory, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA. navzer@utdallas.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228773" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Auditory Perception/physiology ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Electric Stimulation ; Female ; Models, Neurological ; Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology ; Noise/adverse effects ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Tinnitus/etiology/pathology/*physiopathology/*therapy ; Vagus Nerve/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-12
    Description: The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is part of the brain's circuit for dynamic representation of self-location. The metric of this representation is provided by grid cells, cells with spatial firing fields that tile environments in a periodic hexagonal pattern. Limited anatomical sampling has obscured whether the grid system operates as a unified system or a conglomerate of independent modules. Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation. These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment. The discrete topography of the grid-map, and the apparent autonomy of the modules, differ from the graded topography of maps for continuous variables in several sensory systems, raising the possibility that the modularity of the grid map is a product of local self-organizing network dynamics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stensola, Hanne -- Stensola, Tor -- Solstad, Trygve -- Froland, Kristian -- Moser, May-Britt -- Moser, Edvard I -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 6;492(7427):72-8. doi: 10.1038/nature11649.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. hanne.stensola@ntnu.no〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23222610" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Entorhinal Cortex/*anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Environment ; Male ; *Models, Neurological ; Orientation ; Rats ; Rats, Long-Evans ; Theta Rhythm/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
    Description: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe and progressive muscle wasting disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in the absence of the membrane-stabilizing protein dystrophin. Dystrophin-deficient muscle fibres are fragile and susceptible to an influx of Ca(2+), which activates inflammatory and muscle degenerative pathways. At present there is no cure for DMD, and existing therapies are ineffective. Here we show that increasing the expression of intramuscular heat shock protein 72 (Hsp72) preserves muscle strength and ameliorates the dystrophic pathology in two mouse models of muscular dystrophy. Treatment with BGP-15 (a pharmacological inducer of Hsp72 currently in clinical trials for diabetes) improved muscle architecture, strength and contractile function in severely affected diaphragm muscles in mdx dystrophic mice. In dko mice, a phenocopy of DMD that results in severe spinal curvature (kyphosis), muscle weakness and premature death, BGP-15 decreased kyphosis, improved the dystrophic pathophysiology in limb and diaphragm muscles and extended lifespan. We found that the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA, the main protein responsible for the removal of intracellular Ca(2+)) is dysfunctional in severely affected muscles of mdx and dko mice, and that Hsp72 interacts with SERCA to preserve its function under conditions of stress, ultimately contributing to the decreased muscle degeneration seen with Hsp72 upregulation. Treatment with BGP-15 similarly increased SERCA activity in dystrophic skeletal muscles. Our results provide evidence that increasing the expression of Hsp72 in muscle (through the administration of BGP-15) has significant therapeutic potential for DMD and related conditions, either as a self-contained therapy or as an adjuvant with other potential treatments, including gene, cell and pharmacological therapies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gehrig, Stefan M -- van der Poel, Chris -- Sayer, Timothy A -- Schertzer, Jonathan D -- Henstridge, Darren C -- Church, Jarrod E -- Lamon, Severine -- Russell, Aaron P -- Davies, Kay E -- Febbraio, Mark A -- Lynch, Gordon S -- GTB07001/Telethon/Italy -- MC_U137761449/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2012 Apr 4;484(7394):394-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10980.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22495301" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium-Transporting ATPases/metabolism ; Diaphragm/drug effects/physiology ; Disease Models, Animal ; *Disease Progression ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; HSP72 Heat-Shock Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics/*metabolism ; Kyphosis/drug therapy ; Longevity/drug effects ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred mdx ; Mice, Transgenic ; Muscle, Skeletal/drug effects/*physiology/physiopathology ; Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne/genetics/*metabolism/pathology/*physiopathology ; Oximes/pharmacology ; Piperidines/pharmacology ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-11
    Description: Receptor desensitization is a universal mechanism to turn off a biological response; in this process, the ability of a physiological trigger to activate a cell is lost despite the continued presence of the stimulus. Receptor desensitization of G-protein-coupled receptors involves uncoupling of the receptor from its G-protein or second-messenger pathway followed by receptor internalization. G-protein-coupled cysteinyl leukotriene type I (CysLT1) receptors regulate immune-cell function and CysLT1 receptors are an established therapeutic target for allergies, including asthma. Desensitization of CysLT1 receptors arises predominantly from protein-kinase-C-dependent phosphorylation of three serine residues in the receptor carboxy terminus. Physiological concentrations of the receptor agonist leukotriene C(4) (LTC(4)) evoke repetitive cytoplasmic Ca(2+) oscillations, reflecting regenerative Ca(2+) release from stores, which is sustained by Ca(2+) entry through store-operated calcium-release-activated calcium (CRAC) channels. CRAC channels are tightly linked to expression of the transcription factor c-fos, a regulator of numerous genes important to cell growth and development. Here we show that abolishing leukotriene receptor desensitization suppresses agonist-driven gene expression in a rat cell line. Mechanistically, stimulation of non-desensitizing receptors evoked prolonged inositol-trisphosphate-mediated Ca(2+) release, which led to accelerated Ca(2+)-dependent slow inactivation of CRAC channels and a subsequent loss of excitation-transcription coupling. Hence, rather than serving to turn off a biological response, reversible desensitization of a Ca(2+) mobilizing receptor acts as an 'on' switch, sustaining long-term signalling in the immune system.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3272478/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3272478/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ng, Siaw-Wei -- Bakowski, Daniel -- Nelson, Charmaine -- Mehta, Ravi -- Almeyda, Robert -- Bates, Grant -- Parekh, Anant B -- G1000813/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G1000813(95533)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jan 9;482(7383):111-5. doi: 10.1038/nature10731.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22230957" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium/*metabolism ; *Calcium Signaling/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cytoplasm/*metabolism ; *Down-Regulation ; *Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; Humans ; Leukotriene C4/pharmacology ; Mast Cells ; Phosphoserine/metabolism ; Protein Kinase C/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Leukotriene/*metabolism ; Thapsigargin/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-09
    Description: Synaptic neurotransmitter release is driven by Ca(2+) influx through active zone voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs). Control of active zone VGCC abundance and function remains poorly understood. Here we show that a trafficking step probably sets synaptic VGCC levels in rats, because overexpression of the pore-forming alpha1(A) VGCC subunit fails to change synaptic VGCC abundance or function. alpha2deltas are a family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored VGCC-associated subunits that, in addition to being the target of the potent neuropathic analgesics gabapentin and pregabalin (alpha2delta-1 and alpha2delta-2), were also identified in a forward genetic screen for pain genes (alpha2delta-3). We show that these proteins confer powerful modulation of presynaptic function through two distinct molecular mechanisms. First, alpha2delta subunits set synaptic VGCC abundance, as predicted from their chaperone-like function when expressed in non-neuronal cells. Second, alpha2deltas configure synaptic VGCCs to drive exocytosis through an extracellular metal ion-dependent adhesion site (MIDAS), a conserved set of amino acids within the predicted von Willebrand A domain of alpha2delta. Expression of alpha2delta with an intact MIDAS motif leads to an 80% increase in release probability, while simultaneously protecting exocytosis from blockade by an intracellular Ca(2+) chelator. alpha2deltas harbouring MIDAS site mutations still drive synaptic accumulation of VGCCs; however, they no longer change release probability or sensitivity to intracellular Ca(2+) chelators. Our data reveal dual functionality of these clinically important VGCC subunits, allowing synapses to make more efficient use of Ca(2+) entry to drive neurotransmitter release.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376018/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376018/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoppa, Michael B -- Lana, Beatrice -- Margas, Wojciech -- Dolphin, Annette C -- Ryan, Timothy A -- G0700368/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0801756/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0901758/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01 MH085783/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085783-01A1/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085783-02/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085783-03/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085783-04/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 May 13;486(7401):122-5. doi: 10.1038/nature11033.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10023, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22678293" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Calcium Channels/biosynthesis/*genetics/*metabolism ; Calcium Signaling ; *Exocytosis ; Mice ; Neurotransmitter Agents/metabolism/*secretion ; Presynaptic Terminals/*metabolism/*secretion ; Probability ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2012-11-07
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bolker, Jessica -- England -- Nature. 2012 Nov 1;491(7422):31-3. doi: 10.1038/491031a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, New Hampshire, USA. jessica.bolker@unh.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23128209" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Animals, Laboratory ; Arabidopsis ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; Disease Models, Animal ; Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/growth & development/physiology ; Environment ; Genotype ; Mice ; *Models, Animal ; *Models, Biological ; Phenotype ; Rats ; Reproducibility of Results ; Research Design/*standards ; Species Specificity
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dolgin, Elie -- England -- Nature. 2012 Sep 27;489(7417):S12-4. doi: 10.1038/489S12a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23013709" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Bioartificial Organs ; Humans ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/physiopathology/*surgery/*therapy ; Pulmonary Gas Exchange ; Rats ; Respiration ; Tissue Engineering/methods ; Tissue Scaffolds ; *Ventilators, Mechanical
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    Publication Date: 2013-05-31
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Smith, Kerri -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 30;497(7451):550-2. doi: 10.1038/497550a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23719444" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anxiety/drug therapy/metabolism ; Brain Mapping/instrumentation/*methods ; Child ; Child Development Disorders, Pervasive/pathology ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/prevention & control ; Depression/metabolism ; Dopamine/metabolism ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional/instrumentation/*methods ; Male ; Mice ; Microscopy ; Neural Pathways/physiology ; Neurosciences/instrumentation/*methods ; Opsins/metabolism/radiation effects ; Optogenetics/history ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2013-05-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Smith, Kerri -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):S4-5. doi: 10.1038/497S4a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23698506" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cats ; Female ; Hippocampus/physiology ; Humans ; Infant ; Memory/*physiology ; Models, Neurological ; Neuronal Plasticity/physiology ; Rats ; Sleep/*physiology ; Sleep, REM/physiology ; Wakefulness/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2012-10-30
    Description: Place-modulated activity among neurons in the hippocampal formation presents a means to organize contextual information in the service of memory formation and recall. One particular spatial representation, that of grid cells, has been observed in the entorhinal cortex (EC) of rats and bats, but has yet to be described in single units in primates. Here we examined spatial representations in the EC of head-fixed monkeys performing a free-viewing visual memory task. Individual neurons were identified in the primate EC that emitted action potentials when the monkey fixated multiple discrete locations in the visual field in each of many sequentially presented complex images. These firing fields possessed spatial periodicity similar to a triangular tiling with a corresponding well-defined hexagonal structure in the spatial autocorrelation. Further, these neurons showed theta-band oscillatory activity and changing spatial scale as a function of distance from the rhinal sulcus, which is consistent with previous findings in rodents. These spatial representations may provide a framework to anchor the encoding of stimulus content in a complex visual scene. Together, our results provide a direct demonstration of grid cells in the primate and suggest that EC neurons encode space during visual exploration, even without locomotion.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565234/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565234/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Killian, Nathaniel J -- Jutras, Michael J -- Buffalo, Elizabeth A -- MH082559/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- ODP51OD11132/PHS HHS/ -- P51RR165/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080007/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH093807/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01MH080007/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01MH093807/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Nov 29;491(7426):761-4. doi: 10.1038/nature11587. Epub 2012 Oct 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Yerkes National Primate Research Center, 954 Gatewood Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23103863" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Chiroptera/physiology ; Entorhinal Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; Haplorhini/*physiology ; Memory/physiology ; Models, Neurological ; Neurons/physiology ; Orientation/physiology ; Rats ; Space Perception/*physiology ; Visual Fields/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2013-01-29
    Description: Insulin resistance is a fundamental pathogenic factor present in various metabolic disorders including obesity and type 2 diabetes. Although skeletal muscle accounts for 70-90% of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal, the mechanism underlying muscle insulin resistance is poorly understood. Here we show in mice that muscle-specific mitsugumin 53 (MG53; also called TRIM72) mediates the degradation of the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1), and when upregulated, causes metabolic syndrome featuring insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension and dyslipidaemia. MG53 expression is markedly elevated in models of insulin resistance, and MG53 overexpression suffices to trigger muscle insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome sequentially. Conversely, ablation of MG53 prevents diet-induced metabolic syndrome by preserving the insulin receptor, IRS1 and insulin signalling integrity. Mechanistically, MG53 acts as an E3 ligase targeting the insulin receptor and IRS1 for ubiquitin-dependent degradation, comprising a central mechanism controlling insulin signal strength in skeletal muscle. These findings define MG53 as a novel therapeutic target for treating metabolic disorders and associated cardiovascular complications.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Song, Ruisheng -- Peng, Wei -- Zhang, Yan -- Lv, Fengxiang -- Wu, Hong-Kun -- Guo, Jiaojiao -- Cao, Yongxing -- Pi, Yanbin -- Zhang, Xin -- Jin, Li -- Zhang, Mao -- Jiang, Peng -- Liu, Fenghua -- Meng, Shaoshuai -- Zhang, Xiuqin -- Jiang, Ping -- Cao, Chun-Mei -- Xiao, Rui-Ping -- England -- Nature. 2013 Feb 21;494(7437):375-9. doi: 10.1038/nature11834. Epub 2013 Jan 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Molecular Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23354051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ; Diet, High-Fat ; Dyslipidemias/metabolism ; Gene Deletion ; Hypertension/metabolism ; *Insulin/metabolism ; Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins/metabolism ; Insulin Resistance/genetics/*physiology ; Male ; Metabolic Syndrome X/enzymology/genetics/*metabolism/prevention & control ; Mice ; Obesity/chemically induced/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred SHR ; Rats, Inbred WKY ; Receptor, Insulin/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/*metabolism ; Ubiquitination
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    Publication Date: 2013-12-07
    Description: Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are polymodal signal detectors that respond to a wide range of physical and chemical stimuli. Elucidating how these channels integrate and convert physiological signals into channel opening is essential to understanding how they regulate cell excitability under normal and pathophysiological conditions. Here we exploit pharmacological probes (a peptide toxin and small vanilloid agonists) to determine structures of two activated states of the capsaicin receptor, TRPV1. A domain (consisting of transmembrane segments 1-4) that moves during activation of voltage-gated channels remains stationary in TRPV1, highlighting differences in gating mechanisms for these structurally related channel superfamilies. TRPV1 opening is associated with major structural rearrangements in the outer pore, including the pore helix and selectivity filter, as well as pronounced dilation of a hydrophobic constriction at the lower gate, suggesting a dual gating mechanism. Allosteric coupling between upper and lower gates may account for rich physiological modulation exhibited by TRPV1 and other TRP channels.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023639/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023639/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cao, Erhu -- Liao, Maofu -- Cheng, Yifan -- Julius, David -- R01 GM098672/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS047723/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS065071/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM098672/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS047723/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS065071/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- S10 RR026814/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- S10RR026814/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Dec 5;504(7478):113-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12823.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, USA [2].〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305161" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Models, Molecular ; Mutation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rats ; TRPV Cation Channels/*chemistry/genetics/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2013-11-15
    Description: Glucose homeostasis is a vital and complex process, and its disruption can cause hyperglycaemia and type II diabetes mellitus. Glucokinase (GK), a key enzyme that regulates glucose homeostasis, converts glucose to glucose-6-phosphate in pancreatic beta-cells, liver hepatocytes, specific hypothalamic neurons, and gut enterocytes. In hepatocytes, GK regulates glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis, suppresses glucose production, and is subject to the endogenous inhibitor GK regulatory protein (GKRP). During fasting, GKRP binds, inactivates and sequesters GK in the nucleus, which removes GK from the gluconeogenic process and prevents a futile cycle of glucose phosphorylation. Compounds that directly hyperactivate GK (GK activators) lower blood glucose levels and are being evaluated clinically as potential therapeutics for the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus. However, initial reports indicate that an increased risk of hypoglycaemia is associated with some GK activators. To mitigate the risk of hypoglycaemia, we sought to increase GK activity by blocking GKRP. Here we describe the identification of two potent small-molecule GK-GKRP disruptors (AMG-1694 and AMG-3969) that normalized blood glucose levels in several rodent models of diabetes. These compounds potently reversed the inhibitory effect of GKRP on GK activity and promoted GK translocation both in vitro (isolated hepatocytes) and in vivo (liver). A co-crystal structure of full-length human GKRP in complex with AMG-1694 revealed a previously unknown binding pocket in GKRP distinct from that of the phosphofructose-binding site. Furthermore, with AMG-1694 and AMG-3969 (but not GK activators), blood glucose lowering was restricted to diabetic and not normoglycaemic animals. These findings exploit a new cellular mechanism for lowering blood glucose levels with reduced potential for hypoglycaemic risk in patients with type II diabetes mellitus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lloyd, David J -- St Jean, David J Jr -- Kurzeja, Robert J M -- Wahl, Robert C -- Michelsen, Klaus -- Cupples, Rod -- Chen, Michelle -- Wu, John -- Sivits, Glenn -- Helmering, Joan -- Komorowski, Renee -- Ashton, Kate S -- Pennington, Lewis D -- Fotsch, Christopher -- Vazir, Mukta -- Chen, Kui -- Chmait, Samer -- Zhang, Jiandong -- Liu, Longbin -- Norman, Mark H -- Andrews, Kristin L -- Bartberger, Michael D -- Van, Gwyneth -- Galbreath, Elizabeth J -- Vonderfecht, Steven L -- Wang, Minghan -- Jordan, Steven R -- Veniant, Murielle M -- Hale, Clarence -- England -- Nature. 2013 Dec 19;504(7480):437-40. doi: 10.1038/nature12724. Epub 2013 Nov 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Metabolic Disorders, Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA. ; Department of Therapeutic Discovery, Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA. ; Department of Comparative Biology & Safety Sciences, Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24226772" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Animals ; Blood Glucose/metabolism ; Carrier Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Cell Nucleus/enzymology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/blood/*drug therapy/enzymology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Hepatocytes ; Humans ; Hyperglycemia/blood/drug therapy/enzymology ; Hypoglycemic Agents/chemistry/*pharmacology/*therapeutic use ; Liver/cytology/enzymology/metabolism ; Male ; Models, Molecular ; Organ Specificity ; Phosphorylation/drug effects ; Piperazines/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Protein Binding/drug effects ; Protein Transport/drug effects ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Sulfonamides/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology/therapeutic use
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    Publication Date: 2013-05-17
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nicholls, Henry -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 16;497(7449):306-8. doi: 10.1038/497306a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23676736" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Conservation of Natural Resources/economics/methods ; Ecuador ; Endangered Species/economics/trends ; Introduced Species/economics/*trends ; Mice ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2013-12-07
    Description: Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are sensors for a wide range of cellular and environmental signals, but elucidating how these channels respond to physical and chemical stimuli has been hampered by a lack of detailed structural information. Here we exploit advances in electron cryo-microscopy to determine the structure of a mammalian TRP channel, TRPV1, at 3.4 A resolution, breaking the side-chain resolution barrier for membrane proteins without crystallization. Like voltage-gated channels, TRPV1 exhibits four-fold symmetry around a central ion pathway formed by transmembrane segments 5-6 (S5-S6) and the intervening pore loop, which is flanked by S1-S4 voltage-sensor-like domains. TRPV1 has a wide extracellular 'mouth' with a short selectivity filter. The conserved 'TRP domain' interacts with the S4-S5 linker, consistent with its contribution to allosteric modulation. Subunit organization is facilitated by interactions among cytoplasmic domains, including amino-terminal ankyrin repeats. These observations provide a structural blueprint for understanding unique aspects of TRP channel function.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078027/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078027/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liao, Maofu -- Cao, Erhu -- Julius, David -- Cheng, Yifan -- R01 GM098672/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS047723/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS065071/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM098672/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS047723/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS065071/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- S10RR026814/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Dec 5;504(7478):107-12. doi: 10.1038/nature12822.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Keck Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, USA [2].〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305160" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Ankyrin Repeat ; *Cryoelectron Microscopy ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; *Models, Molecular ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rats ; TRPV Cation Channels/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
    Description: Predictions about future rewarding events have a powerful influence on behaviour. The phasic spike activity of dopamine-containing neurons, and corresponding dopamine transients in the striatum, are thought to underlie these predictions, encoding positive and negative reward prediction errors. However, many behaviours are directed towards distant goals, for which transient signals may fail to provide sustained drive. Here we report an extended mode of reward-predictive dopamine signalling in the striatum that emerged as rats moved towards distant goals. These dopamine signals, which were detected with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV), gradually increased or--in rare instances--decreased as the animals navigated mazes to reach remote rewards, rather than having phasic or steady tonic profiles. These dopamine increases (ramps) scaled flexibly with both the distance and size of the rewards. During learning, these dopamine signals showed spatial preferences for goals in different locations and readily changed in magnitude to reflect changing values of the distant rewards. Such prolonged dopamine signalling could provide sustained motivational drive, a control mechanism that may be important for normal behaviour and that can be impaired in a range of neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927840/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927840/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Howe, Mark W -- Tierney, Patrick L -- Sandberg, Stefan G -- Phillips, Paul E M -- Graybiel, Ann M -- R01 AG044839/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA027858/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH060379/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH079292/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Aug 29;500(7464):575-9. doi: 10.1038/nature12475. Epub 2013 Aug 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23913271" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Dopamine/*metabolism ; Dopaminergic Neurons/metabolism ; Goals ; Male ; Maze Learning ; Models, Neurological ; Models, Psychological ; Motivation ; Neostriatum/cytology/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Long-Evans ; *Reward ; *Signal Transduction ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
    Description: Neuromodulatory control by oxytocin is essential to a wide range of social, parental and stress-related behaviours. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with deficiencies in oxytocin levels and with genetic alterations of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR). Thirty years ago, Muhlethaler et al. found that oxytocin increases the firing of inhibitory hippocampal neurons, but it remains unclear how elevated inhibition could account for the ability of oxytocin to improve information processing in the brain. Here we describe in mammalian hippocampus a simple yet powerful mechanism by which oxytocin enhances cortical information transfer while simultaneously lowering background activity, thus greatly improving the signal-to-noise ratio. Increased fast-spiking interneuron activity not only suppresses spontaneous pyramidal cell firing, but also enhances the fidelity of spike transmission and sharpens spike timing. Use-dependent depression at the fast-spiking interneuron-pyramidal cell synapse is both necessary and sufficient for the enhanced spike throughput. We show the generality of this novel circuit mechanism by activation of fast-spiking interneurons with cholecystokinin or channelrhodopsin-2. This provides insight into how a diffusely delivered neuromodulator can improve the performance of neural circuitry that requires synapse specificity and millisecond precision.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Owen, Scott F -- Tuncdemir, Sebnem N -- Bader, Patrick L -- Tirko, Natasha N -- Fishell, Gord -- Tsien, Richard W -- F31MH084430/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- MH064070/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- MH071739/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- NS024067/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Aug 22;500(7463):458-62. doi: 10.1038/nature12330. Epub 2013 Aug 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23913275" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/*drug effects ; Animals ; Brain/metabolism ; Cholecystokinin/metabolism ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects/physiology ; Feedback, Physiological/drug effects ; Glycine/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/*cytology/physiology ; Interneurons/*drug effects/metabolism ; Mice ; Neural Pathways/drug effects ; Oxytocin/*pharmacology ; Pyramidal Cells/drug effects/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Oxytocin/agonists/metabolism ; Rhodopsin/metabolism ; Synapses/drug effects/metabolism ; Synaptic Transmission/*drug effects ; Threonine/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 2013-04-05
    Description: Loss of control over harmful drug seeking is one of the most intractable aspects of addiction, as human substance abusers continue to pursue drugs despite incurring significant negative consequences. Human studies have suggested that deficits in prefrontal cortical function and consequential loss of inhibitory control could be crucial in promoting compulsive drug use. However, it remains unknown whether chronic drug use compromises cortical activity and, equally important, whether this deficit promotes compulsive cocaine seeking. Here we use a rat model of compulsive drug seeking in which cocaine seeking persists in a subgroup of rats despite delivery of noxious foot shocks. We show that prolonged cocaine self-administration decreases ex vivo intrinsic excitability of deep-layer pyramidal neurons in the prelimbic cortex, which was significantly more pronounced in compulsive drug-seeking animals. Furthermore, compensating for hypoactive prelimbic cortex neurons with in vivo optogenetic prelimbic cortex stimulation significantly prevented compulsive cocaine seeking, whereas optogenetic prelimbic cortex inhibition significantly increased compulsive cocaine seeking. Our results show a marked reduction in prelimbic cortex excitability in compulsive cocaine-seeking rats, and that in vivo optogenetic prelimbic cortex stimulation decreased compulsive drug-seeking behaviours. Thus, targeted stimulation of the prefrontal cortex could serve as a promising therapy for treating compulsive drug use.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Billy T -- Yau, Hau-Jie -- Hatch, Christina -- Kusumoto-Yoshida, Ikue -- Cho, Saemi L -- Hopf, F Woodward -- Bonci, Antonello -- England -- Nature. 2013 Apr 18;496(7445):359-62. doi: 10.1038/nature12024. Epub 2013 Apr 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. billy.chen@nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23552889" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Addictive/chemically induced/*physiopathology/therapy ; Cocaine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology ; Electroshock ; Limbic System/cytology/drug effects/physiology/physiopathology ; Male ; Optogenetics ; Photic Stimulation ; Prefrontal Cortex/drug effects/pathology/*physiology/*physiopathology ; Pyramidal Cells/cytology/drug effects/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Rhodopsin/metabolism ; Self Administration ; Stimulation, Chemical
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    Publication Date: 2013-07-13
    Description: Cell-surface receptors frequently use scaffold proteins to recruit cytoplasmic targets, but the rationale for this is uncertain. Activated receptor tyrosine kinases, for example, engage scaffolds such as Shc1 that contain phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-binding (PTB) domains. Using quantitative mass spectrometry, here we show that mammalian Shc1 responds to epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation through multiple waves of distinct phosphorylation events and protein interactions. After stimulation, Shc1 rapidly binds a group of proteins that activate pro-mitogenic or survival pathways dependent on recruitment of the Grb2 adaptor to Shc1 pTyr sites. Akt-mediated feedback phosphorylation of Shc1 Ser 29 then recruits the Ptpn12 tyrosine phosphatase. This is followed by a sub-network of proteins involved in cytoskeletal reorganization, trafficking and signal termination that binds Shc1 with delayed kinetics, largely through the SgK269 pseudokinase/adaptor protein. Ptpn12 acts as a switch to convert Shc1 from pTyr/Grb2-based signalling to SgK269-mediated pathways that regulate cell invasion and morphogenesis. The Shc1 scaffold therefore directs the temporal flow of signalling information after EGF stimulation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zheng, Yong -- Zhang, Cunjie -- Croucher, David R -- Soliman, Mohamed A -- St-Denis, Nicole -- Pasculescu, Adrian -- Taylor, Lorne -- Tate, Stephen A -- Hardy, W Rod -- Colwill, Karen -- Dai, Anna Yue -- Bagshaw, Rick -- Dennis, James W -- Gingras, Anne-Claude -- Daly, Roger J -- Pawson, Tony -- MOP-13466-6849/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jul 11;499(7457):166-71. doi: 10.1038/nature12308.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 1X5, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23846654" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Breast/cytology ; Cell Line ; Epidermal Growth Factor/*metabolism ; Epithelial Cells/cytology ; Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/metabolism ; Feedback, Physiological ; GRB2 Adaptor Protein/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; Humans ; Mice ; Multiprotein Complexes/chemistry/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Binding ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/agonists/metabolism ; Shc Signaling Adaptor Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; *Signal Transduction ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2013-04-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kaufman, Matthew T -- Churchland, Anne K -- England -- Nature. 2013 Apr 11;496(7444):172-3. doi: 10.1038/496172a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23579673" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Cognition/*physiology ; Decision Making/*physiology ; Humans ; Models, Neurological ; Primates/physiology ; Rats ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2013-05-28
    Description: Fusing left and right eye images into a single view is dependent on precise ocular alignment, which relies on coordinated eye movements. During movements of the head this alignment is maintained by numerous reflexes. Although rodents share with other mammals the key components of eye movement control, the coordination of eye movements in freely moving rodents is unknown. Here we show that movements of the two eyes in freely moving rats differ fundamentally from the precisely controlled eye movements used by other mammals to maintain continuous binocular fusion. The observed eye movements serve to keep the visual fields of the two eyes continuously overlapping above the animal during free movement, but not continuously aligned. Overhead visual stimuli presented to rats freely exploring an open arena evoke an immediate shelter-seeking behaviour, but are ineffective when presented beside the arena. We suggest that continuously overlapping visual fields overhead would be of evolutionary benefit for predator detection by minimizing blind spots.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wallace, Damian J -- Greenberg, David S -- Sawinski, Juergen -- Rulla, Stefanie -- Notaro, Giuseppe -- Kerr, Jason N D -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jun 6;498(7452):65-9. doi: 10.1038/nature12153. Epub 2013 May 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Network Imaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 41, 72076 Tubingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23708965" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Escape Reaction/physiology ; Exploratory Behavior/physiology ; Eye Movements/physiology ; Head/physiology ; Models, Biological ; Movement/physiology ; Optic Disk/physiology ; Predatory Behavior ; Rats ; Retina/physiology ; Vision, Binocular/*physiology ; Visual Fields/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2014-06-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hakim, Antoine M -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jun 26;510(7506):S12. doi: 10.1038/510S12a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Canadian Stroke Network and director of the Neuroscience Research Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa in Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964022" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Blood Pressure ; Dementia/epidemiology/*etiology/physiopathology/*prevention & control ; Humans ; Hypertension/complications/drug therapy/physiopathology/*therapy ; Ischemic Attack, Transient/diagnosis/epidemiology/physiopathology/*psychology ; Rats ; Stroke/complications/epidemiology/physiopathology/*psychology
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    Publication Date: 2014-03-29
    Description: Increases in brain blood flow, evoked by neuronal activity, power neural computation and form the basis of BOLD (blood-oxygen-level-dependent) functional imaging. Whether blood flow is controlled solely by arteriole smooth muscle, or also by capillary pericytes, is controversial. We demonstrate that neuronal activity and the neurotransmitter glutamate evoke the release of messengers that dilate capillaries by actively relaxing pericytes. Dilation is mediated by prostaglandin E2, but requires nitric oxide release to suppress vasoconstricting 20-HETE synthesis. In vivo, when sensory input increases blood flow, capillaries dilate before arterioles and are estimated to produce 84% of the blood flow increase. In pathology, ischaemia evokes capillary constriction by pericytes. We show that this is followed by pericyte death in rigor, which may irreversibly constrict capillaries and damage the blood-brain barrier. Thus, pericytes are major regulators of cerebral blood flow and initiators of functional imaging signals. Prevention of pericyte constriction and death may reduce the long-lasting blood flow decrease that damages neurons after stroke.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976267/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976267/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hall, Catherine N -- Reynell, Clare -- Gesslein, Bodil -- Hamilton, Nicola B -- Mishra, Anusha -- Sutherland, Brad A -- O'Farrell, Fergus M -- Buchan, Alastair M -- Lauritzen, Martin -- Attwell, David -- 075232/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G0500495/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2014 Apr 3;508(7494):55-60. doi: 10.1038/nature13165. Epub 2014 Mar 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK [2]. ; 1] Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark [2]. ; Acute Stroke Programme, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. ; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. ; 1] Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark [2] Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Glostrup University Hospital, DK-2600 Glostrup, Denmark.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24670647" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arterioles/physiology ; Blood-Brain Barrier/pathology/physiopathology ; Brain Ischemia/pathology ; Capillaries/*cytology/drug effects ; Cell Death ; Cerebellum/blood supply ; Cerebral Cortex/blood supply/cytology ; Cerebrovascular Circulation/drug effects/*physiology ; Dinoprostone/metabolism ; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology ; Female ; Functional Neuroimaging ; Glutamic Acid/pharmacology ; Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids/biosynthesis ; In Vitro Techniques ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Nitric Oxide/metabolism ; Pericytes/cytology/drug effects/pathology/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Rats, Wistar ; Receptors, Glutamate/metabolism ; Signal Transduction/drug effects ; Stroke/pathology ; Vasoconstriction ; Vasodilation/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 2014-10-10
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Abbott, Alison -- England -- Nature. 2014 Oct 9;514(7521):154-7. doi: 10.1038/514154a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25297416" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Entorhinal Cortex/*cytology/*physiology ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Memory/physiology ; Neurosciences/*history ; *Nobel Prize ; Norway ; Orientation/*physiology ; Rats ; Space Perception/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2014-06-05
    Description: It has been proposed that memories are encoded by modification of synaptic strengths through cellular mechanisms such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). However, the causal link between these synaptic processes and memory has been difficult to demonstrate. Here we show that fear conditioning, a type of associative memory, can be inactivated and reactivated by LTD and LTP, respectively. We began by conditioning an animal to associate a foot shock with optogenetic stimulation of auditory inputs targeting the amygdala, a brain region known to be essential for fear conditioning. Subsequent optogenetic delivery of LTD conditioning to the auditory input inactivates memory of the shock. Then subsequent optogenetic delivery of LTP conditioning to the auditory input reactivates memory of the shock. Thus, we have engineered inactivation and reactivation of a memory using LTD and LTP, supporting a causal link between these synaptic processes and memory.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210354/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210354/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nabavi, Sadegh -- Fox, Rocky -- Proulx, Christophe D -- Lin, John Y -- Tsien, Roger Y -- Malinow, Roberto -- MH049159/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- NS27177/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG032132/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH049159/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH091119/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS027177/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jul 17;511(7509):348-52. doi: 10.1038/nature13294. Epub 2014 Jun 1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, Department of Neuroscience and Section of Neurobiology, University of California at San Diego, California 92093, USA [2]. ; Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, Department of Neuroscience and Section of Neurobiology, University of California at San Diego, California 92093, USA. ; Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, California 92093, USA. ; 1] Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, California 92093, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, California 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24896183" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amygdala/physiology ; Animals ; Conditioning (Psychology)/physiology ; Electric Stimulation ; Electrophysiology ; Fear/physiology/psychology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Long-Term Synaptic Depression/*physiology ; Male ; Memory/*physiology ; Optogenetics ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Synapses/*physiology ; Synaptic Transmission
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    Publication Date: 2014-06-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoag, Hannah -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jun 26;510(7506):S6-7. doi: 10.1038/510S6a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964026" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain/drug effects/*metabolism/pathology ; Drug Delivery Systems/*methods ; Humans ; Hydrogel/*administration & dosage ; Nerve Regeneration/drug effects ; Neural Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/transplantation ; Rats ; Stroke/drug therapy/pathology/surgery/*therapy
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    Publication Date: 2014-07-18
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hughes, Virginia -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jul 17;511(7509):282-4. doi: 10.1038/511282a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25030150" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Bariatric Surgery ; Bile Acids and Salts/metabolism ; Biomarkers/analysis ; Biomedical Research ; Diabetes Mellitus/metabolism/prevention & control ; Gammaproteobacteria/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Ghrelin/metabolism ; Glucose/metabolism ; Gram-Positive Bacteria/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Humans ; Hunger/physiology ; Mice ; Models, Animal ; Models, Biological ; Rats ; Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism ; Stomach/*surgery ; *Weight Loss
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    Publication Date: 2014-04-04
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Katsnelson, Alla -- England -- Nature. 2014 Apr 3;508(7494):S8-9. doi: 10.1038/508S8a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24695336" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antipsychotic Agents/therapeutic use ; Cognition/physiology ; Cognition Disorders/drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology ; *Disease Models, Animal ; Drug Discovery/*methods/standards ; Humans ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Multifactorial Inheritance/genetics ; Rats ; Reproducibility of Results ; *Schizophrenia/chemically induced/drug therapy/etiology/physiopathology
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    Publication Date: 2014-04-18
    Description: Accumulating evidence points to cortical oscillations as a mechanism for mediating interactions among functionally specialized neurons in distributed brain circuits. A brain function that may use such interactions is declarative memory--that is, memory that can be consciously recalled, such as episodes and facts. Declarative memory is enabled by circuits in the entorhinal cortex that interface the hippocampus with the neocortex. During encoding and retrieval of declarative memories, entorhinal and hippocampal circuits are thought to interact via theta and gamma oscillations, which in awake rodents predominate frequency spectra in both regions. In favour of this idea, theta-gamma coupling has been observed between entorhinal cortex and hippocampus under steady-state conditions in well-trained rats; however, the relationship between interregional coupling and memory formation remains poorly understood. Here we show, by multisite recording at successive stages of associative learning, that the coherence of firing patterns in directly connected entorhinal-hippocampus circuits evolves as rats learn to use an odour cue to guide navigational behaviour, and that such coherence is invariably linked to the development of ensemble representations for unique trial outcomes in each area. Entorhinal-hippocampal coupling was observed specifically in the 20-40-hertz frequency band and specifically between the distal part of hippocampal area CA1 and the lateral part of entorhinal cortex, the subfields that receive the predominant olfactory input to the hippocampal region. Collectively, the results identify 20-40-hertz oscillations as a mechanism for synchronizing evolving representations in dispersed neural circuits during encoding and retrieval of olfactory-spatial associative memory.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Igarashi, Kei M -- Lu, Li -- Colgin, Laura L -- Moser, May-Britt -- Moser, Edvard I -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jun 5;510(7503):143-7. doi: 10.1038/nature13162. Epub 2014 Apr 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Olav Kyrres gate 9, MTFS, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. ; Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0805, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24739966" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cues ; Entorhinal Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; Exploratory Behavior/physiology ; Hippocampus/cytology/*physiology ; Learning/*physiology ; Male ; Memory/physiology ; Models, Neurological ; Neurons/physiology ; Odors/analysis ; Rats ; Rats, Long-Evans ; Smell ; Space Perception/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2014-12-18
    Description: During endocytosis, energy is invested to narrow the necks of cargo-containing plasma membrane invaginations to radii at which the opposing segments spontaneously coalesce, thereby leading to the detachment by scission of endocytic uptake carriers. In the clathrin pathway, dynamin uses mechanical energy from GTP hydrolysis to this effect, assisted by the BIN/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain-containing protein endophilin. Clathrin-independent endocytic events are often less reliant on dynamin, and whether in these cases BAR domain proteins such as endophilin contribute to scission has remained unexplored. Here we show, in human and other mammalian cell lines, that endophilin-A2 (endoA2) specifically and functionally associates with very early uptake structures that are induced by the bacterial Shiga and cholera toxins, which are both clathrin-independent endocytic cargoes. In controlled in vitro systems, endoA2 reshapes membranes before scission. Furthermore, we demonstrate that endoA2, dynamin and actin contribute in parallel to the scission of Shiga-toxin-induced tubules. Our results establish a novel function of endoA2 in clathrin-independent endocytosis. They document that distinct scission factors operate in an additive manner, and predict that specificity within a given uptake process arises from defined combinations of universal modules. Our findings highlight a previously unnoticed link between membrane scaffolding by endoA2 and pulling-force-driven dynamic scission.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342003/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342003/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Renard, Henri-Francois -- Simunovic, Mijo -- Lemiere, Joel -- Boucrot, Emmanuel -- Garcia-Castillo, Maria Daniela -- Arumugam, Senthil -- Chambon, Valerie -- Lamaze, Christophe -- Wunder, Christian -- Kenworthy, Anne K -- Schmidt, Anne A -- McMahon, Harvey T -- Sykes, Cecile -- Bassereau, Patricia -- Johannes, Ludger -- R01 GM106720/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 22;517(7535):493-6. doi: 10.1038/nature14064. Epub 2014 Dec 17.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Endocytic Trafficking and Therapeutic Delivery group, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France [2] CNRS UMR3666, 75005 Paris, France [3] U1143 INSERM, 75005 Paris, France. ; 1] Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Membrane and Cell Functions group, CNRS UMR 168, Physico-Chimie Curie, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France [2] The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 5735 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Ilinois 60637, USA. ; 1] Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Biomimetism of Cell Movement group, CNRS UMR 168, Physico-Chimie Curie, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France [2] Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, 75205 Paris, France. ; Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London &Birkbeck College, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ; 1] CNRS UMR3666, 75005 Paris, France [2] U1143 INSERM, 75005 Paris, France [3] Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Membrane Dynamics and Mechanics of Intracellular Signaling group, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France. ; Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, 718 Light Hall, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA. ; CNRS, UMR7592, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, 15 rue Helene Brion, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France. ; Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ; Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Biomimetism of Cell Movement group, CNRS UMR 168, Physico-Chimie Curie, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France. ; Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Membrane and Cell Functions group, CNRS UMR 168, Physico-Chimie Curie, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517096" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actins/metabolism ; Acyltransferases/*metabolism ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/*metabolism ; Cholera Toxin/metabolism ; Clathrin ; Dynamins/metabolism ; *Endocytosis ; Humans ; Rats ; Shiga Toxin/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-22
    Description: Cyclin D1 belongs to the core cell cycle machinery, and it is frequently overexpressed in human cancers. The full repertoire of cyclin D1 functions in normal development and oncogenesis is unclear at present. Here we developed Flag- and haemagglutinin-tagged cyclin D1 knock-in mouse strains that allowed a high-throughput mass spectrometry approach to search for cyclin D1-binding proteins in different mouse organs. In addition to cell cycle partners, we observed several proteins involved in transcription. Genome-wide location analyses (chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to DNA microarray; ChIP-chip) showed that during mouse development cyclin D1 occupies promoters of abundantly expressed genes. In particular, we found that in developing mouse retinas-an organ that critically requires cyclin D1 function-cyclin D1 binds the upstream regulatory region of the Notch1 gene, where it serves to recruit CREB binding protein (CBP) histone acetyltransferase. Genetic ablation of cyclin D1 resulted in decreased CBP recruitment, decreased histone acetylation of the Notch1 promoter region, and led to decreased levels of the Notch1 transcript and protein in cyclin D1-null (Ccnd1(-/-)) retinas. Transduction of an activated allele of Notch1 into Ccnd1(-/-) retinas increased proliferation of retinal progenitor cells, indicating that upregulation of Notch1 signalling alleviates the phenotype of cyclin D1-deficiency. These studies show that in addition to its well-established cell cycle roles, cyclin D1 has an in vivo transcriptional function in mouse development. Our approach, which we term 'genetic-proteomic', can be used to study the in vivo function of essentially any protein.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943587/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943587/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bienvenu, Frederic -- Jirawatnotai, Siwanon -- Elias, Joshua E -- Meyer, Clifford A -- Mizeracka, Karolina -- Marson, Alexander -- Frampton, Garrett M -- Cole, Megan F -- Odom, Duncan T -- Odajima, Junko -- Geng, Yan -- Zagozdzon, Agnieszka -- Jecrois, Marie -- Young, Richard A -- Liu, X Shirley -- Cepko, Constance L -- Gygi, Steven P -- Sicinski, Piotr -- 15603/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- A15603/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- HG004069/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- HG3456/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA080111/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA080111-128270/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA109901/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA109901-067138/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA109901-067140/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA108420/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA108420-07/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY008064/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY009676/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY009676-18/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EYO9676/PHS HHS/ -- R01 HG002668/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG002668-07/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003456/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003456-06/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004069/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004069-04/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):374-8. doi: 10.1038/nature08684.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090754" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; CREB-Binding Protein/metabolism ; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ; Cyclin D1/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Genome/genetics ; High-Throughput Screening Assays ; Histone Acetyltransferases/metabolism ; Mass Spectrometry ; Mice ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics ; Protein Binding ; *Proteomics/methods ; Rats ; Receptor, Notch1/genetics/metabolism ; Retina/cytology/embryology/metabolism ; Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Buchen, Lizzie -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 9;467(7312):146-8. doi: 10.1038/467146a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20829771" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *DNA Methylation ; *Epigenesis, Genetic ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genetics, Behavioral ; Humans ; Maternal Behavior ; Mice ; Parenting ; Rats ; Sexual Behavior, Animal ; Suicide
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  • 74
    Publication Date: 2011-09-20
    Description: Dynamin-related proteins (DRPs) are multi-domain GTPases that function via oligomerization and GTP-dependent conformational changes to play central roles in regulating membrane structure across phylogenetic kingdoms. How DRPs harness self-assembly and GTP-dependent conformational changes to remodel membranes is not understood. Here we present the crystal structure of an assembly-deficient mammalian endocytic DRP, dynamin 1, lacking the proline-rich domain, in its nucleotide-free state. The dynamin 1 monomer is an extended structure with the GTPase domain and bundle signalling element positioned on top of a long helical stalk with the pleckstrin homology domain flexibly attached on its opposing end. Dynamin 1 dimer and higher order dimer multimers form via interfaces located in the stalk. Analysis of these interfaces provides insight into DRP family member specificity and regulation and provides a framework for understanding the biogenesis of higher order DRP structures and the mechanism of DRP-mediated membrane scission events.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075756/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075756/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ford, Marijn G J -- Jenni, Simon -- Nunnari, Jodi -- DRG-2004-09/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- R01 GM062942/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM097432/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM062942S1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM097432/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Sep 18;477(7366):561-6. doi: 10.1038/nature10441.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927001" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dynamin I/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleotides ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Multimerization/genetics ; Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2010-03-06
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cressey, Daniel -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):19. doi: 10.1038/464019a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20203576" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Animals, Laboratory/physiology ; *Artifacts ; *Disease Models, Animal ; Feeding Behavior ; Glucose Intolerance/etiology/physiopathology ; Humans ; Mice ; Overweight/etiology/*physiopathology/prevention & control ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Picciotto, Marina R -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 8;466(7303):194-5. doi: 10.1038/466194a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20613832" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cocaine/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/drug therapy/enzymology/*genetics/*metabolism ; Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/metabolism ; MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; MicroRNAs/genetics/*metabolism ; Neostriatum/drug effects/metabolism ; Rats ; Repressor Proteins/genetics ; Reward
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-19
    Description: Early in life, neural circuits are highly susceptible to outside influences. The organization of the primary auditory cortex (A1) in particular is governed by acoustic experience during the critical period, an epoch near the beginning of postnatal development throughout which cortical synapses and networks are especially plastic. This neonatal sensitivity to the pattern of sensory inputs is believed to be essential for constructing stable and adequately adapted representations of the auditory world and for the acquisition of language skills by children. One important principle of synaptic organization in mature brains is the balance between excitation and inhibition, which controls receptive field structure and spatiotemporal flow of neural activity, but it is unknown how and when this excitatory-inhibitory balance is initially established and calibrated. Here we use whole-cell recording to determine the processes underlying the development of synaptic receptive fields in rat A1. We find that, immediately after the onset of hearing, sensory-evoked excitatory and inhibitory responses are equally strong, although inhibition is less stimulus-selective and mismatched with excitation. However, during the third week of postnatal development, excitation and inhibition become highly correlated. Patterned sensory stimulation drives coordinated synaptic changes across receptive fields, rapidly improves excitatory-inhibitory coupling and prevents further exposure-induced modifications. Thus, the pace of cortical synaptic receptive field development is set by progressive, experience-dependent refinement of intracortical inhibition.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888507/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888507/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dorrn, Anja L -- Yuan, Kexin -- Barker, Alison J -- Schreiner, Christoph E -- Froemke, Robert C -- K99 DC009635/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- K99 DC009635-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC002260/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC002260-15/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 17;465(7300):932-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09119.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience, Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, and NeuroCure Neuroscience Research Center (NWFZ), Berlin 13125, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20559387" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation ; Animals ; Auditory Cortex/growth & development/*physiology ; Electrical Synapses/physiology ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/*physiology ; Neural Inhibition/*physiology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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    Publication Date: 2011-11-05
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hunt, Terry L -- Lipo, Carl P -- England -- Nature. 2011 Nov 2;479(7371):41. doi: 10.1038/479041c.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22051666" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Archaeology ; Emigration and Immigration/history ; Europe/ethnology ; History, 18th Century ; Literature, Modern ; Polynesia ; Rats ; Trees ; Violence/history/prevention & control
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    Publication Date: 2011-10-25
    Description: Neuronal exocytosis is catalysed by the SNAP receptor protein syntaxin-1A, which is clustered in the plasma membrane at sites where synaptic vesicles undergo exocytosis. However, how syntaxin-1A is sequestered is unknown. Here we show that syntaxin clustering is mediated by electrostatic interactions with the strongly anionic lipid phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). Using super-resolution stimulated-emission depletion microscopy on the plasma membranes of PC12 cells, we found that PIP2 is the dominant inner-leaflet lipid in microdomains about 73 nanometres in size. This high accumulation of PIP2 was required for syntaxin-1A sequestering, as destruction of PIP2 by the phosphatase synaptojanin-1 reduced syntaxin-1A clustering. Furthermore, co-reconstitution of PIP2 and the carboxy-terminal part of syntaxin-1A in artificial giant unilamellar vesicles resulted in segregation of PIP2 and syntaxin-1A into distinct domains even when cholesterol was absent. Our results demonstrate that electrostatic protein-lipid interactions can result in the formation of microdomains independently of cholesterol or lipid phases.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409895/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409895/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉van den Bogaart, Geert -- Meyenberg, Karsten -- Risselada, H Jelger -- Amin, Hayder -- Willig, Katrin I -- Hubrich, Barbara E -- Dier, Markus -- Hell, Stefan W -- Grubmuller, Helmut -- Diederichsen, Ulf -- Jahn, Reinhard -- P01 GM072694/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Oct 23;479(7374):552-5. doi: 10.1038/nature10545.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Gottingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22020284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cholesterol ; Membrane Microdomains/*chemistry/metabolism ; Microscopy, Confocal ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism ; PC12 Cells ; Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/metabolism ; *Protein Binding ; Rats ; *Static Electricity ; Syntaxin 1/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Unilamellar Liposomes/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2011-04-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Colwell, Christopher S -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 28;472(7344):427-8. doi: 10.1038/472427a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21525924" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/*physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Humans ; Models, Neurological ; Rats ; Sleep/*physiology ; Sleep Deprivation/physiopathology ; Wakefulness/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2011-07-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gilbert, Natasha -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jul 12;475(7355):150-1. doi: 10.1038/475150a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21753825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Testing Alternatives/statistics & numerical data/trends ; Animals ; Chemical Industry/*legislation & jurisprudence/methods/*standards ; Ecotoxicology/legislation & jurisprudence/methods/standards ; Europe ; European Union ; *Government Regulation ; Growth/drug effects ; Humans ; Rats ; Reproduction/drug effects ; Toxicity Tests/methods/standards ; Toxicology/*legislation & jurisprudence/methods/*standards
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    Publication Date: 2011-04-29
    Description: In an awake state, neurons in the cerebral cortex fire irregularly and electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings display low-amplitude, high-frequency fluctuations. During sleep, neurons oscillate between 'on' periods, when they fire as in an awake brain, and 'off' periods, when they stop firing altogether and the EEG displays high-amplitude slow waves. However, what happens to neuronal firing after a long period of being awake is not known. Here we show that in freely behaving rats after a long period in an awake state, cortical neurons can go briefly 'offline' as in sleep, accompanied by slow waves in the local EEG. Neurons often go offline in one cortical area but not in another, and during these periods of 'local sleep', the incidence of which increases with the duration of the awake state, rats are active and display an 'awake' EEG. However, they are progressively impaired in a sugar pellet reaching task. Thus, although both the EEG and behaviour indicate wakefulness, local populations of neurons in the cortex may be falling asleep, with negative consequences for performance.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085007/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085007/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vyazovskiy, Vladyslav V -- Olcese, Umberto -- Hanlon, Erin C -- Nir, Yuval -- Cirelli, Chiara -- Tononi, Giulio -- DP1 OD000579/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP1 OD000579-05/OD/NIH HHS/ -- P20 MH077967/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P20 MH077967-04/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 28;472(7344):443-7. doi: 10.1038/nature10009.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 6001 Research Park Boulevard, Wisconsin 53719, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21525926" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/*physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Male ; Models, Neurological ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred WKY ; Reward ; Sleep/*physiology ; Sleep Deprivation/physiopathology ; Wakefulness/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2011-05-24
    Description: Among ion channels, only the nicotinic-receptor superfamily has evolved to generate both cation- and anion-selective members. Although other, structurally unrelated, neurotransmitter-gated cation channels exist, no other type of neurotransmitter-gated anion channel, and thus no other source of fast synaptic inhibitory signals, has been described so far. In addition to the seemingly straightforward electrostatic effect of the presence (in the cation-selective members) or absence (in the anion-selective ones) of a ring of pore-facing carboxylates, mutational studies have identified other features of the amino-acid sequence near the intracellular end of the pore-lining transmembrane segments (M2) that are also required to achieve the high charge selectivity shown by native channels. However, the mechanism underlying this more subtle effect has remained elusive and a subject of speculation. Here we show, using single-channel electrophysiological recordings to estimate the protonation state of native ionizable side chains, that anion-selective-type sequences favour whereas cation-selective-type sequences prevent the protonation of the conserved, buried basic residues at the intracellular entrance of the pore (the M2 0' position). We conclude that the previously unrecognized tunable charge state of the 0' ring of buried basic side chains is an essential feature of these channels' versatile charge-selectivity filter.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121909/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121909/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cymes, Gisela D -- Grosman, Claudio -- R01 NS042169/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS042169-07/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01-NS042169/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 May 22;474(7352):526-30. doi: 10.1038/nature10015.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21602825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Electric Conductivity ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Ligands ; Mice ; Mutation ; Proline/genetics ; Protein Subunits ; Protons ; Rats ; Receptors, Cholinergic/genetics/metabolism ; Receptors, Glycine/genetics/metabolism ; Receptors, Nicotinic/*chemistry/classification/genetics/*metabolism ; Static Electricity
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  • 84
    Publication Date: 2011-06-17
    Description: Since it was discovered that the anti-hypertensive agent ifenprodil has neuroprotective activity through its effects on NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors, a determined effort has been made to understand the mechanism of action and to develop improved therapeutic compounds on the basis of this knowledge. Neurotransmission mediated by NMDA receptors is essential for basic brain development and function. These receptors form heteromeric ion channels and become activated after concurrent binding of glycine and glutamate to the GluN1 and GluN2 subunits, respectively. A functional hallmark of NMDA receptors is that their ion-channel activity is allosterically regulated by binding of small compounds to the amino-terminal domain (ATD) in a subtype-specific manner. Ifenprodil and related phenylethanolamine compounds, which specifically inhibit GluN1 and GluN2B NMDA receptors, have been intensely studied for their potential use in the treatment of various neurological disorders and diseases, including depression, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Despite considerable enthusiasm, mechanisms underlying the recognition of phenylethanolamines and ATD-mediated allosteric inhibition remain limited owing to a lack of structural information. Here we report that the GluN1 and GluN2B ATDs form a heterodimer and that phenylethanolamine binds at the interface between GluN1 and GluN2B, rather than within the GluN2B cleft. The crystal structure of the heterodimer formed between the GluN1b ATD from Xenopus laevis and the GluN2B ATD from Rattus norvegicus shows a highly distinct pattern of subunit arrangement that is different from the arrangements observed in homodimeric non-NMDA receptors and reveals the molecular determinants for phenylethanolamine binding. Restriction of domain movement in the bi-lobed structure of the GluN2B ATD, by engineering of an inter-subunit disulphide bond, markedly decreases sensitivity to ifenprodil, indicating that conformational freedom in the GluN2B ATD is essential for ifenprodil-mediated allosteric inhibition of NMDA receptors. These findings pave the way for improving the design of subtype-specific compounds with therapeutic value for neurological disorders and diseases.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171209/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171209/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Karakas, Erkan -- Simorowski, Noriko -- Furukawa, Hiro -- MH085926/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P30 EB009998/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085926/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085926-01A1/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085926-02/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH085926-03/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jun 15;475(7355):249-53. doi: 10.1038/nature10180.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, WM Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21677647" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 2-Hydroxyphenethylamine/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Allosteric Regulation/drug effects ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Disulfides/chemistry/metabolism ; Movement ; Neuroprotective Agents/pharmacology ; Piperidines/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Xenopus laevis
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 2011-01-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Graff, Johannes -- Tsai, Li-Huei -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 27;469(7331):474-5. doi: 10.1038/469474a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21270879" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cognition/drug effects/*physiology ; Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; Hippocampus/drug effects ; Humans ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/metabolism/pharmacology ; Memory/drug effects/*physiology ; Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology ; Rats
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  • 86
    Publication Date: 2011-10-08
    Description: Left ventricular mass (LVM) is a highly heritable trait and an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality. So far, genome-wide association studies have not identified the genetic factors that underlie LVM variation, and the regulatory mechanisms for blood-pressure-independent cardiac hypertrophy remain poorly understood. Unbiased systems genetics approaches in the rat now provide a powerful complementary tool to genome-wide association studies, and we applied integrative genomics to dissect a highly replicated, blood-pressure-independent LVM locus on rat chromosome 3p. Here we identified endonuclease G (Endog), which previously was implicated in apoptosis but not hypertrophy, as the gene at the locus, and we found a loss-of-function mutation in Endog that is associated with increased LVM and impaired cardiac function. Inhibition of Endog in cultured cardiomyocytes resulted in an increase in cell size and hypertrophic biomarkers in the absence of pro-hypertrophic stimulation. Genome-wide network analysis unexpectedly implicated ENDOG in fundamental mitochondrial processes that are unrelated to apoptosis. We showed direct regulation of ENDOG by ERR-alpha and PGC1alpha (which are master regulators of mitochondrial and cardiac function), interaction of ENDOG with the mitochondrial genome and ENDOG-mediated regulation of mitochondrial mass. At baseline, the Endog-deleted mouse heart had depleted mitochondria, mitochondrial dysfunction and elevated levels of reactive oxygen species, which were associated with enlarged and steatotic cardiomyocytes. Our study has further established the link between mitochondrial dysfunction, reactive oxygen species and heart disease and has uncovered a role for Endog in maladaptive cardiac hypertrophy.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189541/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189541/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McDermott-Roe, Chris -- Ye, Junmei -- Ahmed, Rizwan -- Sun, Xi-Ming -- Serafin, Anna -- Ware, James -- Bottolo, Leonardo -- Muckett, Phil -- Canas, Xavier -- Zhang, Jisheng -- Rowe, Glenn C -- Buchan, Rachel -- Lu, Han -- Braithwaite, Adam -- Mancini, Massimiliano -- Hauton, David -- Marti, Ramon -- Garcia-Arumi, Elena -- Hubner, Norbert -- Jacob, Howard -- Serikawa, Tadao -- Zidek, Vaclav -- Papousek, Frantisek -- Kolar, Frantisek -- Cardona, Maria -- Ruiz-Meana, Marisol -- Garcia-Dorado, David -- Comella, Joan X -- Felkin, Leanne E -- Barton, Paul J R -- Arany, Zoltan -- Pravenec, Michal -- Petretto, Enrico -- Sanchis, Daniel -- Cook, Stuart A -- 087183/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U120085815/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_U120097112/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2011 Oct 5;478(7367):114-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10490.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21979051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Apoptosis ; Body Weight/genetics ; Cardiomegaly/*enzymology/genetics/*pathology/physiopathology ; Cell Respiration ; Chromosomes, Mammalian/genetics ; Crosses, Genetic ; Endodeoxyribonucleases/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Mitochondrial/genetics ; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/enzymology/genetics/pathology/physiopathology ; Lipid Metabolism ; Male ; Mitochondria/genetics/*metabolism/pathology ; Organ Size/genetics ; Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics ; RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred Strains ; Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism ; Receptors, Estrogen/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2011-03-25
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉DeWeerdt, Sarah -- England -- Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):S22-4. doi: 10.1038/471S22a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21430718" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brassica/chemistry ; Breeding ; Cooking ; Curcumin/pharmacology ; *Diet/statistics & numerical data ; Fruit/chemistry ; Genetic Variation/genetics ; Genistein/pharmacology ; Genome, Human/genetics ; Humans ; Isothiocyanates ; Metagenome ; Mice ; Neoplasms/chemically induced/*diet therapy/*prevention & control ; Phytotherapy ; Rats ; Reproducibility of Results ; Risk Management ; Stilbenes/pharmacology ; Thiocyanates/pharmacology ; Time Factors ; Vegetables/chemistry
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  • 88
    Publication Date: 2011-03-11
    Description: Activation of microglia and inflammation-mediated neurotoxicity are suggested to play a decisive role in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative disorders. Activated microglia release pro-inflammatory factors that may be neurotoxic. Here we show that the orderly activation of caspase-8 and caspase-3/7, known executioners of apoptotic cell death, regulate microglia activation through a protein kinase C (PKC)-delta-dependent pathway. We find that stimulation of microglia with various inflammogens activates caspase-8 and caspase-3/7 in microglia without triggering cell death in vitro and in vivo. Knockdown or chemical inhibition of each of these caspases hindered microglia activation and consequently reduced neurotoxicity. We observe that these caspases are activated in microglia in the ventral mesencephalon of Parkinson's disease (PD) and the frontal cortex of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Taken together, we show that caspase-8 and caspase-3/7 are involved in regulating microglia activation. We conclude that inhibition of these caspases could be neuroprotective by targeting the microglia rather than the neurons themselves.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Burguillos, Miguel A -- Deierborg, Tomas -- Kavanagh, Edel -- Persson, Annette -- Hajji, Nabil -- Garcia-Quintanilla, Albert -- Cano, Josefina -- Brundin, Patrik -- Englund, Elisabet -- Venero, Jose L -- Joseph, Bertrand -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):319-24. doi: 10.1038/nature09788. Epub 2011 Mar 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21389984" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/enzymology/pathology ; Animals ; Caspase 3/deficiency/metabolism ; Caspase 7/deficiency/metabolism ; Caspase 8/genetics/metabolism ; Caspase Inhibitors ; Caspases/deficiency/*metabolism ; Cell Death/drug effects ; Cells, Cultured ; Dopamine/metabolism ; Enzyme Activation ; Frontal Lobe/enzymology/pathology ; Gene Knockdown Techniques ; Humans ; Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology ; Mice ; Microglia/drug effects/*physiology ; Neostriatum/metabolism ; Neurotoxicity Syndromes/*enzymology/metabolism/*pathology ; Parkinson Disease/enzymology/pathology ; Protein Kinase C-delta/chemistry/metabolism ; Rats ; *Signal Transduction ; Substantia Nigra/enzymology/pathology ; Toll-Like Receptor 4/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2011-10-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Callaway, Ewen -- England -- Nature. 2011 Oct 25;478(7370):444-6. doi: 10.1038/478444a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22031418" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; DNA Contamination ; Disease Outbreaks ; Evolution, Molecular ; Genome, Bacterial/*genetics ; History, 19th Century ; History, Ancient ; History, Medieval ; Humans ; Insect Vectors/microbiology ; London/epidemiology ; Phylogeny ; Plague/epidemiology/history/*microbiology/transmission ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Rats ; Reproducibility of Results ; Yersinia pestis/classification/*genetics/isolation & purification
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 2011-03-23
    Description: The Rho family of GTPases have important roles in the morphogenesis of the dendritic spines of neurons in the brain and synaptic plasticity by modulating the organization of the actin cytoskeleton. Here we used two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy to monitor the activity of two Rho GTPases-RhoA and Cdc42-in single dendritic spines undergoing structural plasticity associated with long-term potentiation in CA1 pyramidal neurons in cultured slices of rat hippocampus. When long-term volume increase was induced in a single spine using two-photon glutamate uncaging, RhoA and Cdc42 were rapidly activated in the stimulated spine. These activities decayed over about five minutes, and were then followed by a phase of persistent activation lasting more than half an hour. Although active RhoA and Cdc42 were similarly mobile, their activity patterns were different. RhoA activation diffused out of the stimulated spine and spread over about 5 microm along the dendrite. In contrast, Cdc42 activation was restricted to the stimulated spine, and exhibited a steep gradient at the spine necks. Inhibition of the Rho-Rock pathway preferentially inhibited the initial spine growth, whereas the inhibition of the Cdc42-Pak pathway blocked the maintenance of sustained structural plasticity. RhoA and Cdc42 activation depended on Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent kinase (CaMKII). Thus, RhoA and Cdc42 relay transient CaMKII activation to synapse-specific, long-term signalling required for spine structural plasticity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105377/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105377/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Murakoshi, Hideji -- Wang, Hong -- Yasuda, Ryohei -- R01 DA027807/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047-02/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047-03/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047-04/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080047-05/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS068410/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS068410-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS068410-02/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS068410-03/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 7;472(7341):100-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09823. Epub 2011 Mar 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423166" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/metabolism ; Dendritic Spines/*enzymology/*physiology ; Enzyme Activation ; GTPase-Activating Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Humans ; Learning/physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/physiology ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology ; Phosphoproteins/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Pyramidal Cells/physiology ; Rats ; Signal Transduction ; Time Factors ; rho GTP-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 2012-11-20
    Description: The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is thought to participate in high-level control of the generation of behaviours (including the decision to execute actions); indeed, imaging and lesion studies in human beings have revealed that PFC dysfunction can lead to either impulsive states with increased tendency to initiate action, or to amotivational states characterized by symptoms such as reduced activity, hopelessness and depressed mood. Considering the opposite valence of these two phenotypes as well as the broad complexity of other tasks attributed to PFC, we sought to elucidate the PFC circuitry that favours effortful behavioural responses to challenging situations. Here we develop and use a quantitative method for the continuous assessment and control of active response to a behavioural challenge, synchronized with single-unit electrophysiology and optogenetics in freely moving rats. In recording from the medial PFC (mPFC), we observed that many neurons were not simply movement-related in their spike-firing patterns but instead were selectively modulated from moment to moment, according to the animal's decision to act in a challenging situation. Surprisingly, we next found that direct activation of principal neurons in the mPFC had no detectable causal effect on this behaviour. We tested whether this behaviour could be causally mediated by only a subclass of mPFC cells defined by specific downstream wiring. Indeed, by leveraging optogenetic projection-targeting to control cells with specific efferent wiring patterns, we found that selective activation of those mPFC cells projecting to the brainstem dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), a serotonergic nucleus implicated in major depressive disorder, induced a profound, rapid and reversible effect on selection of the active behavioural state. These results may be of importance in understanding the neural circuitry underlying normal and pathological patterns of action selection and motivation in behaviour.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Warden, Melissa R -- Selimbeyoglu, Aslihan -- Mirzabekov, Julie J -- Lo, Maisie -- Thompson, Kimberly R -- Kim, Sung-Yon -- Adhikari, Avishek -- Tye, Kay M -- Frank, Loren M -- Deisseroth, Karl -- 1F32MH088010-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- F32 MH088010/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 20;492(7429):428-32. doi: 10.1038/nature11617.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. mwarden@stanford.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23160494" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Axons/physiology ; Behavior, Animal/*physiology ; Depression/psychology ; Electrophysiology ; Locomotion/physiology ; Male ; Motivation/*physiology ; Neurons/*physiology ; Optogenetics ; Prefrontal Cortex/*physiology ; Raphe Nuclei/*physiology ; Rats ; Rats, Long-Evans ; Swimming/*physiology ; Synapses/physiology ; Time Factors
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  • 92
    Publication Date: 2012-12-12
    Description: In mammals, enlargement of the heart during embryonic development is primarily dependent on the increase in cardiomyocyte numbers. Shortly after birth, however, cardiomyocytes stop proliferating and further growth of the myocardium occurs through hypertrophic enlargement of the existing myocytes. As a consequence of the minimal renewal of cardiomyocytes during adult life, repair of cardiac damage through myocardial regeneration is very limited. Here we show that the exogenous administration of selected microRNAs (miRNAs) markedly stimulates cardiomyocyte proliferation and promotes cardiac repair. We performed a high-content microscopy, high-throughput functional screening for human miRNAs that promoted neonatal cardiomyocyte proliferation using a whole-genome miRNA library. Forty miRNAs strongly increased both DNA synthesis and cytokinesis in neonatal mouse and rat cardiomyocytes. Two of these miRNAs (hsa-miR-590 and hsa-miR-199a) were further selected for testing and were shown to promote cell cycle re-entry of adult cardiomyocytes ex vivo and to promote cardiomyocyte proliferation in both neonatal and adult animals. After myocardial infarction in mice, these miRNAs stimulated marked cardiac regeneration and almost complete recovery of cardiac functional parameters. The miRNAs identified hold great promise for the treatment of cardiac pathologies consequent to cardiomyocyte loss.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Eulalio, Ana -- Mano, Miguel -- Dal Ferro, Matteo -- Zentilin, Lorena -- Sinagra, Gianfranco -- Zacchigna, Serena -- Giacca, Mauro -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 20;492(7429):376-81. doi: 10.1038/nature11739. Epub 2012 Dec 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 34149 Trieste, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23222520" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Proliferation ; Cytokinesis ; DNA/biosynthesis ; Down-Regulation ; Gene Library ; Genetic Therapy ; Heart/growth & development ; Humans ; Mice ; MicroRNAs/*analysis/*genetics/therapeutic use ; Myocardial Infarction/genetics/pathology/prevention & control/therapy ; Myocardium/*cytology/metabolism ; Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Regeneration/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 2012-10-12
    Description: Neurotensin (NTS) is a 13-amino-acid peptide that functions as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone through the activation of the neurotensin receptor NTSR1, a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). In the brain, NTS modulates the activity of dopaminergic systems, opioid-independent analgesia, and the inhibition of food intake; in the gut, NTS regulates a range of digestive processes. Here we present the structure at 2.8 A resolution of Rattus norvegicus NTSR1 in an active-like state, bound to NTS(8-13), the carboxy-terminal portion of NTS responsible for agonist-induced activation of the receptor. The peptide agonist binds to NTSR1 in an extended conformation nearly perpendicular to the membrane plane, with the C terminus oriented towards the receptor core. Our findings provide, to our knowledge, the first insight into the binding mode of a peptide agonist to a GPCR and may support the development of non-peptide ligands that could be useful in the treatment of neurological disorders, cancer and obesity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482300/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482300/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉White, Jim F -- Noinaj, Nicholas -- Shibata, Yoko -- Love, James -- Kloss, Brian -- Xu, Feng -- Gvozdenovic-Jeremic, Jelena -- Shah, Priyanka -- Shiloach, Joseph -- Tate, Christopher G -- Grisshammer, Reinhard -- MC_U105197215/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- P50 GM073197/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U105197215/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- U54GM075026/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- ZIA NS003016-05/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Oct 25;490(7421):508-13. doi: 10.1038/nature11558. Epub 2012 Oct 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Membrane Protein Structure Function Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23051748" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Bacteriophage T4 ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Models, Molecular ; Muramidase ; Mutation ; Neurotensin/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Rats ; Receptors, Neurotensin/*agonists/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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  • 94
    Publication Date: 2012-04-28
    Description: The mechanisms linking sensation and action during learning are poorly understood. Layer 2/3 neurons in the motor cortex might participate in sensorimotor integration and learning; they receive input from sensory cortex and excite deep layer neurons, which control movement. Here we imaged activity in the same set of layer 2/3 neurons in the motor cortex over weeks, while mice learned to detect objects with their whiskers and report detection with licking. Spatially intermingled neurons represented sensory (touch) and motor behaviours (whisker movements and licking). With learning, the population-level representation of task-related licking strengthened. In trained mice, population-level representations were redundant and stable, despite dynamism of single-neuron representations. The activity of a subpopulation of neurons was consistent with touch driving licking behaviour. Our results suggest that ensembles of motor cortex neurons couple sensory input to multiple, related motor programs during learning.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4601999/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4601999/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huber, D -- Gutnisky, D A -- Peron, S -- O'Connor, D H -- Wiegert, J S -- Tian, L -- Oertner, T G -- Looger, L L -- Svoboda, K -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Apr 25;484(7395):473-8. doi: 10.1038/nature11039.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22538608" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Feedback, Sensory/*physiology ; Hippocampus/physiology ; Learning/*physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/physiology ; Mice ; Microscopy ; *Models, Neurological ; Motor Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; Neuronal Plasticity/physiology ; Psychomotor Performance/physiology ; Rats ; Tongue/physiology ; Touch/physiology ; Vibrissae/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lok, Corie -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jan 11;481(7380):130-3. doi: 10.1038/481130a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22237089" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biotechnology/ethics/history/*trends ; Blindness/pathology/surgery/therapy ; Clinical Trials as Topic/trends ; Cloning, Organism/ethics/history ; Embryo Research/ethics/history ; Embryonic Stem Cells/*transplantation ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Rats ; Retinal Pigment Epithelium/cytology/transplantation ; *Stem Cell Research/ethics/history ; United States ; United States Food and Drug Administration
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  • 96
    Publication Date: 2012-01-31
    Description: Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (InsP(3)Rs) and ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are tetrameric intracellular Ca(2+) channels. In each of these receptor families, the pore, which is formed by carboxy-terminal transmembrane domains, is regulated by signals that are detected by large cytosolic structures. InsP(3)R gating is initiated by InsP(3) binding to the InsP(3)-binding core (IBC, residues 224-604 of InsP(3)R1) and it requires the suppressor domain (SD, residues 1-223 of InsP(3)R1). Here we present structures of the amino-terminal region (NT, residues 1-604) of rat InsP(3)R1 with (3.6 A) and without (3.0 A) InsP(3) bound. The arrangement of the three NT domains, SD, IBC-beta and IBC-alpha, identifies two discrete interfaces (alpha and beta) between the IBC and SD. Similar interfaces occur between equivalent domains (A, B and C) in RyR1 (ref. 9). The orientations of the three domains when docked into a tetrameric structure of InsP(3)R and of the ABC domains docked into RyR are remarkably similar. The importance of the alpha-interface for activation of InsP(3)R and RyR is confirmed by mutagenesis and, for RyR, by disease-causing mutations. Binding of InsP(3) causes partial closure of the clam-like IBC, disrupting the beta-interface and pulling the SD towards the IBC. This reorients an exposed SD loop ('hotspot' (HS) loop) that is essential for InsP(3)R activation. The loop is conserved in RyR and includes mutations that are associated with malignant hyperthermia and central core disease. The HS loop interacts with an adjacent NT, suggesting that activation re-arranges inter-subunit interactions. The A domain of RyR functionally replaced the SD in full-length InsP(3)R, and an InsP(3)R in which its C-terminal transmembrane region was replaced by that from RyR1 was gated by InsP(3) and blocked by ryanodine. Activation mechanisms are conserved between InsP(3)R and RyR. Allosteric modulation of two similar domain interfaces within an N-terminal subunit reorients the first domain (SD or A domain), allowing it, through interactions of the second domain of an adjacent subunit (IBC-beta or B domain), to gate the pore.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378505/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378505/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seo, Min-Duk -- Velamakanni, Saroj -- Ishiyama, Noboru -- Stathopulos, Peter B -- Rossi, Ana M -- Khan, Samir A -- Dale, Philippa -- Li, Congmin -- Ames, James B -- Ikura, Mitsuhiko -- Taylor, Colin W -- 085295/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- BB/H009736/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- BB/H009736/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- EY012347/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- G0900049/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0900049(90812)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- NS059969/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- England -- Nature. 2012 Jan 29;483(7387):108-12. doi: 10.1038/nature10751.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22286060" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Apoproteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate/chemistry/metabolism ; Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rabbits ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Abbott, Alison -- England -- Nature. 2012 May 9;485(7397):162-3. doi: 10.1038/485162a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22575939" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Abnormalities, Radiation-Induced/epidemiology ; Animals ; Dogs ; *Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation ; Haplorhini ; History, 20th Century ; Humans ; International Cooperation ; Mice ; Nuclear Warfare ; *Radiation Injuries, Experimental/complications/history ; Radioactive Hazard Release ; Rats ; Swine ; *Tissue Banks/history/trends/utilization ; Tissue Preservation/*statistics & numerical data/trends
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    Publication Date: 2013-01-18
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ravetz, Jerome R -- Healey, Peter -- Rayner, Steve -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jan 17;493(7432):304. doi: 10.1038/493304a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23325199" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Crowdsourcing/*standards ; Food, Genetically Modified/*adverse effects ; Herbicide Resistance/genetics ; Humans ; Plants, Genetically Modified/adverse effects/genetics ; *Quality Control ; Rats ; Research/*standards ; Social Media/*utilization ; Zea mays/adverse effects/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2012-10-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Butler, Declan -- England -- Nature. 2012 Oct 11;490(7419):158. doi: 10.1038/490158a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23060167" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Food Safety ; Food, Genetically Modified/*standards ; Humans ; Models, Animal ; Rats ; Research Design/*standards
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  • 100
    Publication Date: 2012-10-02
    Description: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing, with severe socioeconomic impacts. Excess lipid deposition in peripheral tissues impairs insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake, and has been proposed to contribute to the pathology of type 2 diabetes. However, few treatment options exist that directly target ectopic lipid accumulation. Recently it was found that vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGF-B) controls endothelial uptake and transport of fatty acids in heart and skeletal muscle. Here we show that decreased VEGF-B signalling in rodent models of type 2 diabetes restores insulin sensitivity and improves glucose tolerance. Genetic deletion of Vegfb in diabetic db/db mice prevented ectopic lipid deposition, increased muscle glucose uptake and maintained normoglycaemia. Pharmacological inhibition of VEGF-B signalling by antibody administration to db/db mice enhanced glucose tolerance, preserved pancreatic islet architecture, improved beta-cell function and ameliorated dyslipidaemia, key elements of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. The potential use of VEGF-B neutralization in type 2 diabetes was further elucidated in rats fed a high-fat diet, in which it normalized insulin sensitivity and increased glucose uptake in skeletal muscle and heart. Our results demonstrate that the vascular endothelium can function as an efficient barrier to excess muscle lipid uptake even under conditions of severe obesity and type 2 diabetes, and that this barrier can be maintained by inhibition of VEGF-B signalling. We propose VEGF-B antagonism as a novel pharmacological approach for type 2 diabetes, targeting the lipid-transport properties of the endothelium to improve muscle insulin sensitivity and glucose disposal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hagberg, Carolina E -- Mehlem, Annika -- Falkevall, Annelie -- Muhl, Lars -- Fam, Barbara C -- Ortsater, Henrik -- Scotney, Pierre -- Nyqvist, Daniel -- Samen, Erik -- Lu, Li -- Stone-Elander, Sharon -- Proietto, Joseph -- Andrikopoulos, Sofianos -- Sjoholm, Ake -- Nash, Andrew -- Eriksson, Ulf -- England -- Nature. 2012 Oct 18;490(7420):426-30. doi: 10.1038/nature11464. Epub 2012 Sep 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tissue Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23023133" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*drug therapy/*metabolism ; Diet, High-Fat ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dyslipidemias/drug therapy/metabolism ; Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism ; Female ; Glucose/metabolism ; Glucose Tolerance Test ; *Insulin Resistance ; Islets of Langerhans/anatomy & histology/cytology/pathology ; Lipid Metabolism ; Male ; Metabolic Syndrome X/drug therapy/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; *Molecular Targeted Therapy ; Muscles/metabolism ; Obesity/metabolism/pathology ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Signal Transduction/drug effects/immunology ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor B/*antagonists & ; inhibitors/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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