The authors demonstrated that these compounds inhibit the transport of a broad range of key MRP4 substrates, and that they are low
in cellular toxicity and highly stable.
Not exact matches
The
cellular changes
in the workers reflected
toxicity in the bone marrow, a sign of leukemia, she said.
Using cell - based model systems and Drosophila, they found CRMP1 overexpression reduces hungtingtin aggregation and
cellular toxicity, while reduced CRMP1 results
in increased aggregation and
toxicity.
Some of the PCBs are not broken down
in this way, and their continued stimulation of AHR2 disrupts
cellular functions, leading to
toxicity.
Chung and Khurana used the wealth of data from the yeast alpha - synuclein
toxicity model to clue them
in on key
cellular processes that became perturbed as patient neurons aged
in the dish.
«
In both models, we found that neither IBs nor kinase activity were the direct causes of
cellular toxicity leading to neuronal death,» said Dr. Skibinski, who was the paper's lead author.
«Correct protein folding is critically important, which is why we are focusing on the diverse set of complex
cellular mechanisms, including molecular chaperones, that promote efficient folding and prevent
toxicity,» says Dr. Adrian Israelson, who heads the
Cellular and Molecular Neurodegeneration Lab
in the BGU Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.