Genetic disruption of mammalian endoplasmic reticulum‐associated protein degradation: Human phenotypes and animal and cellular disease models

S Badawi, FE Mohamed, DS Varghese, BR Ali - Traffic, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Endoplasmic reticulum‐associated protein degradation (ERAD) is a stringent quality control
mechanism through which misfolded, unassembled and some native proteins are targeted …

Midbrain organoids for Parkinson's disease (PD)-A powerful tool to understand the disease pathogenesis

HWS Babu, SM Kumar, H Kaur, M Iyer, B Vellingiri - Life Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Brain Organiods (BOs) are a promising technique for researching disease
progression in the human brain. These organoids, which are produced from human induced …

In depth characterization of midbrain organoids derived from wild type iPSC lines

I Pavlinov, M Tambe, J Abbott, HN Nguyen, M Xu… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The ability to model human neurological tissues in vitro has been a major hurdle to effective
drug development for neurological disorders. iPSC-derived brain organoids have emerged …

Development of a fluorescence and quencher-based FRET assay for detection of endogenous peptide: N-glycanase/NGLY1 activity

H Hirayama, Y Tachida, R Fujinawa, Y Matsuda… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ASBMB
Cytosolic peptide: N-glycanase (PNGase/NGLY1 in mammals) catalyzes deglycosylation of
N-glycans on glycoproteins. A genetic disorder caused by mutations in the NGLY1 gene …

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs): molecular mechanisms of induction and applications

J Cerneckis, H Cai, Y Shi - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has transformed in vitro research and
holds great promise to advance regenerative medicine. iPSCs have the capacity for an …

Chronic opioid treatment arrests neurodevelopment and alters synaptic activity in human midbrain organoids

HS Kim, Y Xiao, X Chen, S He, J Im… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the impact of long‐term opioid exposure on the embryonic brain is critical
due to the surging number of pregnant mothers with opioid dependency. However, this has …