Genetic reduction of striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) reverses cognitive and cellular deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
Zhang Y, Kurup P, Xu J, Carty N, Fernandez SM, Nygaard HB, Pittenger C, Greengard P, Strittmatter SM, Nairn AC, Lombroso PJ. Genetic reduction of striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) reverses cognitive and cellular deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 19014-19019. PMID: 20956308, PMCID: PMC2973892, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013543107.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStriatal-enriched tyrosine phosphataseTyrosine phosphataseDisease mouse modelStriatal-enriched phosphataseAlzheimer's diseaseCellular deficitsGenetic manipulationNMDA receptorsMouse modelTriple transgenic AD mouse modelIncurable neurodegenerative disorderTransgenic AD mouse modelAlzheimer's disease mouse modelPathophysiology of ADSTEP inhibitorGenetic reductionAD mouse modelHuman AD patientsSoluble Aβ oligomersSynaptic functionPhosphataseNeurodegenerative disordersAD patientsDevastating disorderAnimal modelsThe role of STEP in Alzheimer's disease
Kurup P, Zhang Y, Venkitaramani DV, Xu J, Lombroso PJ. The role of STEP in Alzheimer's disease. Channels 2010, 4: 347-350. PMID: 20699650, PMCID: PMC3230511, DOI: 10.4161/chan.4.5.12910.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsN-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type glutamate receptorsAlzheimer's diseaseProtein tyrosine Phosphatase 61AD prefrontal cortexAD mouse modelType glutamate receptorsGlutamate receptor traffickingNeuronal surface membraneNMDAR internalizationAβ treatmentPutative causative agentGlutamate receptorsMouse modelCulture resultsGluN1/Prefrontal cortexDiseaseNeuronal membranesNMDAR endocytosisAdditional studiesAβCausative agentSurface expressionUbiquitin-proteasome systemReceptor complex