Proteolysis, synaptic plasticity and memory

AN Hegde - Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2017 - Elsevier
Protein degradation has many critical functions in the nervous system such as refinement of
synaptic connections during development and synaptic plasticity and memory in the adult …

Molecular mechanisms underlying formation of long-term reward memories and extinction memories in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

D Eisenhardt - Learning & memory, 2014 - learnmem.cshlp.org
The honeybee (Apis mellifera) has long served as an invertebrate model organism for
reward learning and memory research. Its capacity for learning and memory formation is …

Proteomic analysis reveals sex-specific protein degradation targets in the amygdala during fear memory formation

K Farrell, M Musaus, S Navabpour, K Martin… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ubiquitin-proteasome mediated protein degradation has been widely implicated in fear
memory formation in the amygdala. However, to date, the protein targets of the proteasome …

Proteolytic activity of the proteasome is required for female insect reproduction

W Wang, RR Yang, LY Peng, L Zhang… - Open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-ATPase regulatory subunits (Rpns) are components of the 26S proteasome involved in
polyubiquitinated substrate recognition and deubiquitination in eukaryotes. Here, we …

The heat shock response and humoral immune response are mutually antagonistic in honey bees

M McKinstry, C Chung, H Truong, BA Johnston… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The honey bee is of paramount importance to humans in both agricultural and ecological
settings. Honey bee colonies have suffered from increased attrition in recent years …

Sex-specific linear polyubiquitination is a critical regulator of contextual fear memory formation

M Musaus, K Farrell, S Navabpour, WK Ray… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Strong evidence supports that protein ubiquitination is a critical regulator of fear memory
formation. However, as this work has focused on protein degradation, it is currently unknown …

Males and females differ in the subcellular and brain region dependent regulation of proteasome activity by CaMKII and protein kinase A

RK Devulapalli, JL Nelsen, SA Orsi, T McFadden… - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) controls the degradation of~ 90% of short-lived
proteins in cells and is involved in activity-and learning-dependent synaptic plasticity in the …

Regulation of aberrant proteasome activity re‐establishes plasticity and long‐term memory in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease

K Krishna‐K, N Baby, R Raghuraman… - The FASEB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reduced retrograde memory performance at the cognitive level and aggregation/deposition
of amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain at the cellular level are some of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's …

Proteotoxic stress desensitizes TGF-beta signaling through receptor downregulation in retinal pigment epithelial cells

X Tan, C Chen, Y Zhu, J Deng, X Qiu… - Current Molecular …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Proteotoxic stress and transforming growth factor (TGFβ)-induced epithelial-
mesenchymal transition (EMT) are two main contributors of intraocular fibrotic disorders …

Role of proteasome-dependent protein degradation in long-term operant memory in Aplysia

LC Lyons, JS Gardner, CE Gandour… - Learning & …, 2017 - learnmem.cshlp.org
We investigated the in vivo role of protein degradation during intermediate (ITM) and long-
term memory (LTM) in Aplysia using an operant learning paradigm. The proteasome …