Tag: Synapse
Does Norepinephrine Metabolite DOPEGAL Turn Tau Toxic?
08 Apr 2022 What makes tau toxic? In the March 24 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, researchers led by Keqiang Ye at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China, suggest a new culprit, a norepinephrine metabolite known as DOPEGAL, which is produced only in the locus coeruleus (LC). The authors found…
Function of SYDE C2-RhoGAP family as signaling hubs for neuronal development deduced by computational analysis
Hallam, S. J., Goncharov, A., McEwen, J., Baran, R. & Jin, Y. Syd-1, a presynaptic protein with PDZ, C2 and rhoGAP-like domains specifies axon identity in C. elegans. Nat. Neurosci. 5, 1137–1146 (2002). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Xu, Y. & Quinn, C. C. SYD-1 promotes multiple developmental steps leading to…
Workflow Platforms for Systems Genetics
Workflow Platforms for Systems Genetics eQTL Platforms eQTL Viewer Mouse Genome Informatics: Phenotypes, Alleles & Disease Models PhenoGen Informatics (CO U) eXtensible Genotype And Phenotype platform (XGAP) MOLGENIS & MetaNetwork, Swertz & Jansen, U Groningen Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA), Horvath, UCLA iPlant Sage Bionetworks Repository: Synapse GenomeSpace Institute…
Drosophila carrying epilepsy-associated variants in the vitamin B6 metabolism gene PNPO display allele- and diet-dependent phenotypes
Pyridox(am)ine 5′-phosphate oxidase (PNPO; Enzyme Commission Number 1.4.3.5) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of vitamin B6 (VB6) (1). Mutations in PNPO can cause neonatal epileptic encephalopathy, a devastating disease that usually leads to death if untreated (2). Recently, PNPO mutations have also been reported in patients with infantile…
