Astrocytes and major depression: The purinergic avenue

YF Zhao, A Verkhratsky, Y Tang, P Illes - Neuropharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric illnesses
worldwide which impairs the social functioning of the afflicted patients. Astrocytes promote …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into the METTL3-METTL14 complex in musculoskeletal diseases

Y Xu, Y Zhang, Y Luo, G Qiu, J Lu, M He… - Cell Death Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification, catalyzed by methyltransferase
complexes (MTCs), plays many roles in multifaceted biological activities. As the most …

FTO alleviates cerebral ischemia/reperfusion-induced neuroinflammation by decreasing cGAS mRNA stability in an m6A-dependent manner

Z Yu, L Zheng, Y Geng, Y Zhang, Y Wang, G You… - Cellular signalling, 2023 - Elsevier
Microglia-mediated inflammation is a major contributor to the brain damage in cerebral
ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury, and N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) has been implicated …

m6A writer WTAP targets NRF2 to accelerate bladder cancer malignancy via m6A-dependent ferroptosis regulation

K Wang, G Wang, G Li, W Zhang, Y Wang, X Lin, C Han… - Apoptosis, 2023 - Springer
Recent evidence have indicated that ferroptosis, a novel iron-dependent form of non-
apoptotic cell death, plays a critical role in human cancers. Besides, emerging literatures …

[HTML][HTML] Potential roles of m6A and FTO in synaptic connectivity and major depressive disorder

H Mitsuhashi, C Nagy - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
RNA modifications known as epitranscriptomics have emerged as a novel layer of
transcriptomic regulation. Like the well-studied epigenetic modifications characterized in …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant DNA and RNA methylation occur in spinal cord and skeletal muscle of human SOD1 mouse models of ALS and in human ALS: Targeting DNA …

LJ Martin, DA Adams, MV Niedzwiecki, M Wong - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease. Skeletal muscles and motor neurons
(MNs) degenerate. ALS is a complex disease involving many genes in multiple tissues, the …

[HTML][HTML] m6A methylation: Critical roles in aging and neurological diseases

Y Fan, X Lv, Z Chen, Y Peng, M Zhang - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
RNA methylation participates in the functional regulation of various biological processes,
affecting RNA translocation, alternative splicing, maturation, stability, and degradation to …

NRF1 mitigates motor dysfunction and dopamine neuron degeneration in mice with Parkinson's disease by promoting GLRX m6A methylation through upregulation of …

X Gong, M Huang, L Chen - CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective The feature of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the heavy dopaminergic
neuron loss of substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), while glutaredoxin (GLRX) has been …

Benzo [a] pyrene-induced up-regulation of circ_0003552 via ALKBH5-mediated m6A modification promotes DNA damage in human bronchial epithelial cells

S Yao, X Chen, N Hu, N Zhang, M Qiu, Y Jia… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Benzo [a] pyrene (B [a] P) is a widespread environmental chemical pollutant that
has been linked to the development of various diseases. However, the specific mechanism …

[HTML][HTML] YTHDF1 attenuates TBI-induced brain-gut Axis dysfunction in mice

P Huang, M Liu, J Zhang, X Zhong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The brain-gut axis (BGA) is a significant bidirectional communication pathway between the
brain and gut. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) induced neurotoxicity and neuroinflammation can …