Intracellular dynamics of synucleins:“here, there and everywhere”

A Surguchov - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Synucleins are small, soluble proteins expressed primarily in neural tissue and in certain
tumors. The synuclein family consists of three members: α-, β-, and γ-synucleins present …

Molecular and cellular biology of synucleins

A Surguchov - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Synucleins are small, soluble proteins expressed primarily in neural tissues and certain
tumors. The family includes three known proteins: α‐synuclein, β‐synuclein, and γ …

Proteolytic cleavage of extracellular secreted α-synuclein via matrix metalloproteinases

JY Sung, SM Park, CH Lee, JW Um, HJ Lee… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Although α-synuclein is the main structural component of the insoluble filaments that form
Lewy bodies in Parkinson disease (PD), its physiological function and exact role in neuronal …

Non-viral transfection vectors: are hybrid materials the way forward?

A Gigante, M Li, S Junghänel, C Hirschhäuser… - …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Transfection is a process by which oligonucleotides (DNA or RNA) are delivered into living
cells. This allows the synthesis of target proteins as well as their inhibition (gene silencing) …

[HTML][HTML] γ-Synuclein as a marker of retinal ganglion cells

I Surgucheva, AD Weisman, JL Goldberg… - Molecular …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Previous studies have described γ-synuclein as a protein highly expressed in
retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), and a loss of RGCs correlates with a downregulation of γ …

γ‐Synuclein and the progression of cancer

M Ahmad, S Attoub, MN Singh, FL Martin… - The FASEB …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The synucleins are a small, soluble, highly conserved group of neuronal proteins that have
been implicated in both neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The synuclein family …

Synucleins and gene expression: ramblers in a crowd or cops regulating traffic?

AA Surguchev, A Surguchov - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Synuclein family consists of three members, α, β, and γ-synuclein. Due to their involvement
in human diseases, they have been thoroughly investigated for the last 30 years. Since the …

Silencing of selected glutamate receptor subunits modulates cancer growth

H Luksch, O Uckermann, A Stepulak… - Anticancer …, 2011 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background: Emerging evidence supports a role for glutamate in the biology of cancer. We
studied the impact of glutamate receptor subunit silencing on cancer phenotype. Materials …

PRL-3 promotes the motility, invasion, and metastasis of LoVo colon cancer cells through PRL-3-integrin β1-ERK1/2 and-MMP2 signaling

L Peng, X Xing, W Li, L Qu, L Meng, S Lian, B Jiang… - Molecular cancer, 2009 - Springer
Background Phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 (PRL-3) plays a causative role in tumor
metastasis, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. In our previous study …

Synuclein-γ is closely involved in perineural invasion and distant metastasis in mouse models and is a novel prognostic factor in pancreatic cancer

T Hibi, T Mori, M Fukuma, K Yamazaki… - Clinical Cancer …, 2009 - AACR
Purpose: Perineural invasion is associated with the high incidence of local recurrence and a
dismal prognosis in pancreatic cancer. We previously reported a novel perineural invasion …