Molecular mechanisms underlying neurotransmitter release

J Rizo - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Major recent advances and previous data have led to a plausible model of how key proteins
mediate neurotransmitter release. In this model, the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive …

Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: current status and prospects for the future

K Blennow, H Zetterberg - Journal of internal medicine, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating data from the clinical research support that the core Alzheimer's disease (AD)
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers amyloid‐β (Aβ42), total tau (T‐tau), and …

Computed structures of core eukaryotic protein complexes

IR Humphreys, J Pei, M Baek, A Krishnakumar… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Protein-protein interactions play critical roles in biology, but the structures
of many eukaryotic protein complexes are unknown, and there are likely many interactions …

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

JJ Lee, R Wedow, A Okbay, E Kong, O Maghzian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a
sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome …

Mechanisms of SNARE proteins in membrane fusion

R Jahn, DC Cafiso, LK Tamm - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) are a
family of small conserved eukaryotic proteins that mediate membrane fusion between …

Biomarkers used in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

YAR Mahaman, KS Embaye, F Huang, L Li, F Zhu… - Ageing research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD), being the number one in terms of dementia burden, is an
insidious age-related neurodegenerative disease and is presently considered a global …

ATG14 promotes membrane tethering and fusion of autophagosomes to endolysosomes

J Diao, R Liu, Y Rong, M Zhao, J Zhang, Y Lai, Q Zhou… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Autophagy, an important catabolic pathway implicated in a broad spectrum of human
diseases, begins by forming double membrane autophagosomes that engulf cytosolic cargo …

Neurogenic inflammation and its role in migraine

R Ramachandran - Seminars in immunopathology, 2018 - Springer
The etiology of migraine pain involves sensitized meningeal afferents that densely innervate
the dural vasculature. These afferents, with their cell bodies located in the trigeminal …

The multifaceted role of SNARE proteins in membrane fusion

J Han, K Pluhackova, RA Böckmann - Frontiers in physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Membrane fusion is a key process in all living organisms that contributes to a variety of
biological processes including viral infection, cell fertilization, as well as intracellular …

The AAA+ superfamily: a review of the structural and mechanistic principles of these molecular machines

YA Khan, KI White, AT Brunger - Critical reviews in biochemistry …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA+ proteins) are a superfamily of
proteins found throughout all domains of life. The hallmark of this family is a conserved …