Mammalian septins in health and disease

C Montagna, M Bejerano-Sagie… - Research and Reports …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Septins embrace a large family of proteins highly conserved among eukaryotic species.
They were originally identified in budding yeast in the early 1970s as proteins essential for …

sept7b is essential for pronephric function and development of left–right asymmetry in zebrafish embryogenesis

SN Dash, E Lehtonen, AA Wasik… - Journal of Cell …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
The conserved septin family of filamentous small GTPases plays important roles in mitosis,
cell migration and cell morphogenesis by forming scaffolds and diffusion barriers. Recent …

High SEPT9_v1 expression is associated with poor clinical outcomes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

L Stanbery, NJ D'Silva, JS Lee, CR Bradford… - Translational …, 2010 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work was to determine SEPT9_v1 expression levels in head and neck
squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and to analyze whether SEPT9_v1 expression is …

Forchlorfenuron disrupts SEPT9_i1 filaments and inhibits HIF-1

D Vardi-Oknin, M Golan, NJ Mabjeesh - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Forchlorfenuron (FCF) is a synthetic plant cytokinin that has been shown to alter yeast and
mammalian septin organization. Septins are a highly conserved family of GTP-binding …

SEPT9 sequence alternations causing hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy are associated with altered interactions with SEPT4/SEPT11 and resistance to Rho/Rhotekin …

K Sudo, H Ito, I Iwamoto, R Morishita, T Asano… - Human …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
SEPT9 is a member of the cytoskeleton‐related septin family, which is highly expressed in
glia cells in neuronal tissues. Sequence alterations in SEPT9 are known to cause hereditary …

[HTML][HTML] Promiscuous interactions of human septins: the GTP binding domain of SEPT7 forms filaments within the crystal

VHB Serrão, F Alessandro, VEA Caldas, RL Marçal… - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
We describe the purification, crystallization and structure for the GTP-binding domain of
human septin 7 (SEPT7G). We show that it forms filaments within the crystal lattice which …

Dma/RNF8 proteins are evolutionarily conserved E3 ubiquitin ligases that target septins

R Chahwan, S Gravel, T Matsusaka, SP Jackson - Cell Cycle, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The budding yeast proteins Dma1 and Dma2 are members of the unique FHA-RING domain
protein family and are linked to mitotic regulation and septin organization by ill-defined …

Unearthing the role of septins in viral infections

JE Khairat, MNA Hatta, N Abdullah… - Bioscience …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Septin proteins are a subfamily of closely related GTP-binding proteins conserved in all
species except for higher plants and perform essential biological processes. Septins self …

Characterization of septin expression in normal and fibrotic kidneys

K Neubauer, B Neubauer, M Seidl, B Zieger - Cytoskeleton, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by the loss of nephrons and worsening
organ‐fibrosis that leads to deterioration and ultimately the total breakdown of kidney …

[PDF][PDF] Microglia: physiological functions revealed through morphological profiles

K Cho, GE Choi - Folia Biologica, 2017 - foliabiologica.lf1.cuni.cz
Microglia play key immunological roles in the central nervous system. Upon activation,
resident microglial cells transform from a ramified form to an amoeboid form and acquire the …