Regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways by the ubiquitin-proteasome system and its pharmacological potential

S Mathien, C Tesnière, S Meloche… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are evolutionarily conserved signaling
pathways that play essential roles in transducing extracellular environmental signals into …

An axonal stress response pathway: degenerative and regenerative signaling by DLK

EA Adib, LJ Smithson, CA Collins - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•DLK is an evolutionarily conserved sensor of axonal damage and cytoskeletal
stress.•DLK coordinates both regenerative and degenerative responses to axonal …

Loss-of-function variants in MYCBP2 cause neurobehavioural phenotypes and corpus callosum defects

L AlAbdi, M Desbois, DV Rusnac, RA Sulaiman… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The corpus callosum is a bundle of axon fibres that connects the two hemispheres of the
brain. Neurodevelopmental disorders that feature dysgenesis of the corpus callosum as a …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell type analysis of wing premotor circuits in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila melanogaster

E Ehrhardt, SC Whitehead, S Namiki, R Minegishi… - Biorxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To perform most behaviors, animals must send commands from higher-order processing
centers in the brain to premotor circuits that reside in ganglia distinct from the brain, such as …

PAM forms an atypical SCF ubiquitin ligase complex that ubiquitinates and degrades NMNAT2

M Desbois, O Crawley, PR Evans, ST Baker… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
PHR (PAM/Highwire/RPM-1) proteins are conserved RING E3 ubiquitin ligases that function
in developmental processes, such as axon termination and synapse formation, as well as …

Spatiotemporal Control of Neuronal Remodeling by Cell Adhesion Molecules: Insights From Drosophila

H Meltzer, O Schuldiner - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Developmental neuronal remodeling is required for shaping the precise connectivity of the
mature nervous system. Remodeling involves pruning of exuberant neural connections …

RPM-1 regulates axon termination by affecting growth cone collapse and microtubule stability

MA Borgen, D Wang, B Grill - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Axon termination is essential for efficient and accurate nervous system construction. At
present, relatively little is known about how growth cone collapse occurs prior to axon …

Regulation of subcellular dendritic synapse specificity by axon guidance cues

EC Sales, EL Heckman, TL Warren, CQ Doe - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Neural circuit assembly occurs with subcellular precision, yet the mechanisms underlying
this precision remain largely unknown. Subcellular synaptic specificity could be achieved by …

The equilibrium between antagonistic signaling pathways determines the number of synapses in Drosophila

S Jordan-Alvarez, E Santana, S Casas-Tinto… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The number of synapses is a major determinant of behavior and many neural diseases
exhibit deviations in that number. However, how signaling pathways control this number is …

A MIG-15/JNK-1 MAP kinase cascade opposes RPM-1 signaling in synapse formation and learning

O Crawley, AC Giles, M Desbois, S Kashyap… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The Pam/Highwire/RPM-1 (PHR) proteins are conserved intracellular signaling hubs that
regulate synapse formation and axon termination. The C. elegans PHR protein, called RPM …