Synaptic neurexin complexes: a molecular code for the logic of neural circuits

TC Südhof - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Synapses are specialized junctions between neurons in brain that transmit and compute
information, thereby connecting neurons into millions of overlapping and interdigitated …

Transcellular nanoalignment of synaptic function

T Biederer, PS Kaeser, TA Blanpied - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
At each of the brain's vast number of synapses, the presynaptic nerve terminal, synaptic cleft,
and postsynaptic specialization form a transcellular unit to enable efficient transmission of …

Deciphering spatial domains from spatially resolved transcriptomics with an adaptive graph attention auto-encoder

K Dong, S Zhang - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in spatially resolved transcriptomics have enabled comprehensive
measurements of gene expression patterns while retaining the spatial context of the tissue …

Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer's disease

K Leng, E Li, R Eser, A Piergies, R Sit, M Tan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the selective vulnerability of specific neuronal
populations, the molecular signatures of which are largely unknown. To identify and …

DNA methylation atlas of the mouse brain at single-cell resolution

H Liu, J Zhou, W Tian, C Luo, A Bartlett, A Aldridge… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mammalian brain cells show remarkable diversity in gene expression, anatomy and
function, yet the regulatory DNA landscape underlying this extensive heterogeneity is poorly …

A concerted neuron–astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia

E Ling, J Nemesh, M Goldman, N Kamitaki, N Reed… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in
cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and …

CSF proteome profiling across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum reflects the multifactorial nature of the disease and identifies specific biomarker panels

M Del Campo, CFW Peeters, ECB Johnson, L Vermunt… - Nature aging, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Development of disease-modifying therapies against Alzheimer's disease (AD)
requires biomarkers reflecting the diverse pathological pathways specific for AD. We …

Integrating spatial transcriptomics data across different conditions, technologies and developmental stages

X Zhou, K Dong, S Zhang - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
With the rapid generation of spatial transcriptomics (ST) data, integrative analysis of multiple
ST datasets from different conditions, technologies and developmental stages is becoming …

Specification of synaptic connectivity by cell surface interactions

J De Wit, A Ghosh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
The molecular diversification of cell surface molecules has long been postulated to impart
specific surface identities on neuronal cell types. The existence of unique cell surface …

Regional diversity and developmental dynamics of the AMPA-receptor proteome in the mammalian brain

J Schwenk, D Baehrens, A Haupt, W Bildl, S Boudkkazi… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Native AMPA receptors (AMPARs) in the mammalian brain are macromolecular complexes
whose functional characteristics vary across the different brain regions and change during …