scholarly journals Collapsin Response Mediator Protein Switches RhoA and Rac1 Morphology in N1E-115 Neuroblastoma Cells and Is Regulated by Rho Kinase

2001 ◽  
Vol 276 (46) ◽  
pp. 43482-43486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hall ◽  
Matthew Brown ◽  
Tom Jacobs ◽  
Giovanna Ferrari ◽  
Nansi Cann ◽  
...  
2008 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
pp. 1833-1848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Hui Ni ◽  
Chih-Ching Wu ◽  
Wen-Hsiung Chan ◽  
Kun-Yi Chien ◽  
Jau-Song Yu

2000 ◽  
Vol 275 (31) ◽  
pp. 23973-23980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nariko Arimura ◽  
Naoyuki Inagaki ◽  
Kazuyasu Chihara ◽  
Céline Ménager ◽  
Nao Nakamura ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiko Ikezu ◽  
Kaitlin L. Ingraham Dixie ◽  
Lacin Koro ◽  
Takashi Watanabe ◽  
Kozo Kaibuchi ◽  
...  

AbstractThe accumulation of phosphorylated tau protein (pTau) in the entorhinal cortex (EC) is the earliest tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Tau tubulin kinase-1 (TTBK1) is a neuron-specific tau kinase and expressed in the EC and hippocampal regions in both human and mouse brains. Here we report that collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP2), a critical mediator of growth cone collapse, is a new downstream target of TTBK1 and is accumulated in the EC region of early stage AD brains. TTBK1 transgenic mice show severe axonal degeneration in the perforant path, which is exacerbated by crossing with Tg2576 mice expressing Swedish familial AD mutant of amyloid precursor protein (APP). TTBK1 mice show accumulation of phosphorylated CRMP2 (pCRMP2), in the EC at 10 months of age, whereas age-matched APP/TTBK1 bigenic mice show pCRMP2 accumulation in both the EC and hippocampal regions. Amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) and TTBK1 suppresses the kinetics of microtubule polymerization and TTBK1 reduces the neurite length of primary cultured neurons in Rho kinase-dependent manner in vitro. Silencing of TTBK1 or expression of dominant-negative Rho kinase demonstrates that Aβ induces CRMP2 phosphorylation at threonine 514 in a TTBK1-dependent manner, and TTBK1 enhances Aβ-induced CRMP2 phosphorylation in Rho kinase-dependent manner in vitro. Furthermore, TTBK1 expression induces pCRMP2 complex formation with pTau in vitro, which is enhanced upon Aβ stimulation in vitro. Finally, pCRMP2 forms a complex with pTau in the EC tissue of TTBK1 mice in vivo, which is exacerbated in both the EC and hippocampal tissues in APP/TTBK1 mice. These results suggest that TTBK1 and Aβ synergistically induce phosphorylation of CRMP2, which may be causative for the neurite degeneration and somal accumulation of pTau in the EC neurons, indicating critical involvement of TTBK1 and pCRMP2 in the early AD pathology.


Zygote ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Zhen Jin ◽  
Hua-Feng Shou ◽  
Jin-Wei Liu ◽  
Shan-Shan Jiang ◽  
Yan Shen ◽  
...  

Abstract Microtubule-severing protein (MTSP) is critical for the survival of both mitotic and postmitotic cells. However, the study of MTSP during meiosis of mammalian oocytes has not been reported. We found that spastin, a member of the MTSP family, was highly expressed in oocytes and aggregated in spindle microtubules. After knocking down spastin by specific siRNA, the spindle microtubule density of meiotic oocytes decreased significantly. When the oocytes were cultured in vitro, the oocytes lacking spastin showed an obvious maturation disorder. Considering the microtubule-severing activity of spastin, we speculate that spastin on spindles may increase the number of microtubule broken ends by severing the microtubules, therefore playing a nucleating role, promoting spindle assembly and ensuring normal meiosis. In addition, we found the colocalization and interaction of collapsin response mediator protein 5 (CRMP5) and spastin in oocytes. CRMP5 can provide structural support and promote microtubule aggregation, creating transportation routes, and can interact with spastin in the microtubule activity of nerve cells (30). Knocking down CRMP5 may lead to spindle abnormalities and developmental disorders in oocytes. Overexpression of spastin may reverse the abnormal phenotype caused by the deletion of CRMP5. In summary, our data support a model in which the interaction between spastin and CRMP5 promotes the assembly of spindle microtubules in oocytes by controlling microtubule dynamics, therefore ensuring normal meiosis.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 817-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Martins-de-Souza ◽  
Juliana S. Cassoli ◽  
Juliana M. Nascimento ◽  
Kenneth Hensley ◽  
Paul C. Guest ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kentaro Togashi ◽  
Masaya Hasegawa ◽  
Jun Nagai ◽  
Aine Tonouchi ◽  
Daiki Masukawa ◽  
...  

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