2014
Inhibitor of the Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP Reverses Cognitive Deficits in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Xu J, Chatterjee M, Baguley TD, Brouillette J, Kurup P, Ghosh D, Kanyo J, Zhang Y, Seyb K, Ononenyi C, Foscue E, Anderson GM, Gresack J, Cuny GD, Glicksman MA, Greengard P, Lam TT, Tautz L, Nairn AC, Ellman JA, Lombroso PJ. Inhibitor of the Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP Reverses Cognitive Deficits in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease. PLOS Biology 2014, 12: e1001923. PMID: 25093460, PMCID: PMC4122355, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001923.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlzheimer DiseaseAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBenzothiepinsCatalytic DomainCell DeathCerebral CortexCognition DisordersCysteineDisease Models, AnimalEnzyme InhibitorsHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansMaleMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMolecular Sequence DataNeuronsPhosphorylationPhosphotyrosineProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorSubstrate SpecificityConceptsInhibitors of stepsSpecificity of inhibitorsIsoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) traffickingCatalytic cysteinePTP inhibitorsTyrosine phosphataseTyrosine phosphorylationSecondary assaysSTEP KO miceReceptor traffickingFirst large-scale effortN-methyl-D-aspartate receptorsPyk2 activitySTEP inhibitorLarge-scale effortsNovel therapeutic targetSynaptic functionAlzheimer's diseaseNeurodegenerative disordersCortical cellsTherapeutic targetERK1/2Specificity experimentsPhosphataseInhibitors
2001
Cloning, expression and characterization of a novel human REPS1 gene1The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been submitted to GenBank under accession number AF251052.1
Xu J, Zhou Z, Zeng L, Huang Y, Zhao W, Cheng C, Xu M, Xie Y, Mao Y. Cloning, expression and characterization of a novel human REPS1 gene1The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been submitted to GenBank under accession number AF251052.1. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta 2001, 1522: 118-121. PMID: 11750063, DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(01)00310-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman fetal brain libraryFetal brain libraryAmino acid identitySignal transduction pathwaysDownstream target proteinsNorthern blot analysisProtein familySmall GTPaseBinding partnerAcid identityTransduction pathwaysNucleotide sequenceVariety of tissuesBrain libraryTarget proteinsReps1Blot analysisProteinRalBP1Recent findingsStrong expressionExpressionRalGTPaseImportant role