Sentences with phrase «in synaptic proteins»

Temporal changes in synaptic proteins in hippocampal slices indicated acute synaptic loss, followed by synapse formation and maintenance phases.

BDNF induces widespread changes in synaptic protein content and up - regulates components of the translation machinery: an analysis using high - throughput proteomics.

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During synaptic vesicle fusion, the soluble N - ethylmaleimide - sensitive factor — attachment protein receptor (SNARE) protein syntaxin - 1 exhibits two conformations that both bind to Munc18 - 1: a «closed» conformation outside the SNARE complex and an «open» conformation in the SNARE complex.

In October researchers at Columbia University reported that young mice predisposed to acquiring Alzheimer's accumulate protein clusters in synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair synapse functioIn October researchers at Columbia University reported that young mice predisposed to acquiring Alzheimer's accumulate protein clusters in synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair synapse functioin synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair synapse function.

We generated knockout mice lacking synaptobrevin / VAMP 2, the vesicular SNARE protein responsible for synaptic vesicle fusion in forebrain synapses, to make use of the exquisite temporal resolution of electrophysiology in measuring fusion.

The protein's role in the pathway leading to memory impairment, however, remained unclear until scientists from IMCB utilised live - cell imaging techniques to elucidate the mechanism of memory impairment and illustrated how SNX27 attributes to synaptic dysfunction.

These properties, which are believed to be important for the induction of long - term changes in synaptic strength, are imparted by asparagine residues in a putative channel - forming segment of the protein, transmembrane 2 (TM2).

When the researchers administered drugs to inhibit the movement of certain «motor» proteins that transport mitochondria and other cargo within the cell by traveling along microtubules, the mitochondria accumulated in the axon of the neuron and never made it to the synaptic terminal.

In addition, synapsin II suppression resulted in a selective decrease in the amounts of several synaptic vesicle - associated proteinIn addition, synapsin II suppression resulted in a selective decrease in the amounts of several synaptic vesicle - associated proteinin a selective decrease in the amounts of several synaptic vesicle - associated proteinin the amounts of several synaptic vesicle - associated proteins.

A second problem is that volatile anesthetics tend to partition into lipids and exert their primary effects on synaptic neurotransmission by interacting with proteins in a lipid environment.

Learning more about how synapses change their connections could help scientists better understand neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, since many of the genetic alterations linked to autism are found in genes that code for synaptic proteins.

Then, the research group examined the molecular mechanism behind the impaired synaptic functions and behaviors in ARHGAP33 KO mice and found that ARHGAP33 is localized to the Golgi apparatus to regulate intracellular protein trafficking of the Tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) receptor, a neurotrophin receptor, to synaptic sites.

In nerve cells, ribosomes are also found close to the synapses of the dendrites, thus enabling proteins that are required for synaptic function to be produced close to their sites of action.

In the brain tissue of Alzheimer's patients, the RNAs that encode synaptic proteins are degraded more rapidly than in healthy brain cells, the researchers founIn the brain tissue of Alzheimer's patients, the RNAs that encode synaptic proteins are degraded more rapidly than in healthy brain cells, the researchers founin healthy brain cells, the researchers found.

Kiebler and his group had previously shown that the brain - specific RNA - binding protein Staufen2 (Stau2) plays a central role in the transport of mRNAs from the cell nucleus to synaptic ribosomes.

What was particularly striking, Stevens notes, is that the researchers also found high expressions of C1q, a protein involved in normal synaptic pruning.

The structure of synaptophysin suggests that the protein may function as a channel in the synaptic vesicle membrane, with the carboxyl terminus serving as a binding site for cellular factors.

In subsequent research at the Stowers Institute, Si and his team identified Orb2 as the fruit fly version of the CPEB synaptic protein.

Moreover, in conjunction with these results, they found decreased protein synthesis, known to be required for long - term potentiation — a form of long - lasting synaptic plasticity — and for long - term memory.

Indeed, when the researchers knocked out the gene for one synaptic protein, called SAPAP3, in mice they noticed something odd: After a few months, the animals developed lesions on their heads and necks.

Feng studies proteins that form the synaptic connections between neurons, and his original goal was simply to see whether defects in such proteins could cause abnormal behavior.

Although only a small percentage of autism patients have mutations in Shank3, many other variant synaptic proteins have been associated with the disorder.

With the combined use of genetics and pharmacology, the investigators altered the production of proteins controlled by eIF2α in adult mice, essentially converting them into adolescents by making them more susceptible to cocaine - induced changes in synaptic strength and behavior.

We have also recently identified a novel and very rapid synaptic action of Abeta, a protein fragment that forms the senile plaques and is strongly implicated in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.»

During this time, we together with our long - time collaborators Reinhard Jahn and Jose Rizo, and in parallel with Richard Scheller and others, discovered the role of SNARE and SM proteins in synaptic vesicle fusion.

Beginning in 1988 Scheller, then at Stanford, succeeded in characterizing several key proteins necessary for synaptic vesicle fusion with the presynaptic membrane, the prerequisite step for neurotransmitter release.

This damages nerve cells by blocking their ability to make the proteins needed for synaptic function and leads to the death of neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

RESULTS: Here we report the identification of a de novo nonsense truncating mutation in one patient with SCZ, in kinesin 17, a synaptic motor protein.

Antiretrovirals, methamphetamine and HIV - 1 envelope protein gp120 compromise neuronal energy homeostasis in association with varying degrees of synaptic and neuritic damage.

Antiretrovirals, methamphetamine, and HIV - 1 envelope protein gp120 compromise neuronal energy homeostasis in association with various degrees of synaptic and neuritic damage.

To determine whether the protein in question, at the time known as BNPI, mediated the transport of glutamate into synaptic vesicles, the researchers inserted the BNPI DNA into rat cells that normally lacked BNPI protein.

Roles of BLOC - 1 and adaptor protein - 3 complexes in cargo sorting to synaptic vesicles.

Her research seeks to clarify the protein machinery involved in memory formation and consolidation under normal and pathological conditions, focusing on synaptic transmission and brain plasticity.

Egr proteins play a role in the regulation of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory [76, 77] and Egr3 in particular is very important for the processing of both short term and long term hippocampal dependent memory [78].

Based upon activity in multiple CNS toxicity assays, we identified an exceptionally potent, orally active, neurotrophic molecule called J147 that facilitates memory in normal rodents, and prevents the loss of synaptic proteins and cognitive decline when administered to three - month - old APP / swePS1ΔE9 mice for seven months [7].

Dalmau discovered that teratomas can feature synaptic receptors and proteins that also occur in the brain.

Aged mutant amyloid precursor protein mice with established disease showed a near complete restoration in levels of synaptic and neuronal proteins after exposure to young blood in parabiosis (synaptophysin P =.02; calbindin P =.02) or following intravenous plasma administration (synaptophysin P <.001; calbindin P =.14).

In particular, he characterized the first synaptic vesicle membrane associated protein, v - SNARE or VAMP, and the first plasma membrane associated target proteins, t - SNAREs or syntaxin and SNAP - 25.

In order to analyze the function of individual proteins in neuronal circuits or synaptic remodeling, researchers combine the Cre and FLP recombinases to control both knockout of a target gene and expression of a separate genIn order to analyze the function of individual proteins in neuronal circuits or synaptic remodeling, researchers combine the Cre and FLP recombinases to control both knockout of a target gene and expression of a separate genin neuronal circuits or synaptic remodeling, researchers combine the Cre and FLP recombinases to control both knockout of a target gene and expression of a separate gene.

Richard Scheller has used a combination of biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology to identify several key synaptic vesicle and plasma membrane proteins involved in fusion of the neurotransmitter - containing vesicles with the membrane of the presynaptic terminal.

Although protein phosphorylation is known to be important for many synaptic processes and in disease, little is known about global phosphorylation of synaptic proteins.

In the nervous system, protein phosphorylation is an essential feature of synaptic function.

Long - term BACE1 inhibition in the neurodevelopmental stage caused the loss of synaptic proteins but failed to alter synaptic proteins in the already developed maintenance stage.

The rise in C3 protein level correlated with decreases in synaptic puncta and synaptophysin densities and synaptic protein, neuron loss, and reduced synaptic plasticity.

In the late 1990s, he and Reinhard Jahn, now at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, determined the structures of some of the key proteins and complexes involved in the process of synaptic vesicle fusioIn the late 1990s, he and Reinhard Jahn, now at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, determined the structures of some of the key proteins and complexes involved in the process of synaptic vesicle fusioin the process of synaptic vesicle fusion.

Within synapses, more specifically in areas of postsynaptic density (PSD), there is a high concentration of proteins that receive and transduce synaptic information.

In contrast to these proteins, it is expressed at high levels early in development (Sans et al 2000) and appears to be the principally responsible for the synaptic targetting of AMPARs at this time (Elias 2006In contrast to these proteins, it is expressed at high levels early in development (Sans et al 2000) and appears to be the principally responsible for the synaptic targetting of AMPARs at this time (Elias 2006in development (Sans et al 2000) and appears to be the principally responsible for the synaptic targetting of AMPARs at this time (Elias 2006).

It is therefore essential to understand how changes in synaptic transmission can regulate the organization and dynamics of actin binding proteins (ABPs).

The identification of proteins, VGLUT1 - 3 (Neuron 2001, PNAS 2002), that pump glutamate into synaptic vesicles allows the packaging of the transmitter to be characterised in health and disease (J Comp Neurol 2004, 2006, 2007) and modified by gene knock - out (Science 2004).

Biological applications discussed included nanoscale clustering of membrane proteins (particularly during synaptic and T cell signalling in mammalian cells), molecular assembly / organisation of protein complexes, and single particle tracking.