2021
Liver-Dependent Lung Remodeling during Systemic Inflammation Shapes Responses to Secondary Infection.
Odom CV, Kim Y, Burgess CL, Baird LA, Korkmaz FT, Na E, Shenoy AT, Arafa EI, Lam TT, Jones MR, Mizgerd JP, Traber KE, Quinton LJ. Liver-Dependent Lung Remodeling during Systemic Inflammation Shapes Responses to Secondary Infection. The Journal Of Immunology 2021, 207: 1891-1902. PMID: 34470857, PMCID: PMC8631467, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100254.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSecondary lung infectionAcute phase responseLung infectionSecondary infectionHepatic acute phase responseIntact liver functionSystemic inflammatory challengeAcute phase changesSignificant transcriptional alterationsWild-type miceHepatocyte-specific deletionPneumonic miceSecondary pneumoniaSystemic inflammationCytokine responsesLiver functionImmunological responsivenessInflammatory challengeLung remodelingLittermate miceLung homeostasisImmune activityLungGene signaturePneumonia
2017
Loss of TMEM106B Ameliorates Lysosomal and Frontotemporal Dementia-Related Phenotypes in Progranulin-Deficient Mice
Klein ZA, Takahashi H, Ma M, Stagi M, Zhou M, Lam TT, Strittmatter SM. Loss of TMEM106B Ameliorates Lysosomal and Frontotemporal Dementia-Related Phenotypes in Progranulin-Deficient Mice. Neuron 2017, 95: 281-296.e6. PMID: 28728022, PMCID: PMC5558861, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLysosomal protein levelsFrontotemporal lobar degenerationProtein levelsMultiple lysosomal enzymesLysosomal enzymesV0 subunitsTMEM106B geneProteomic analysisProgranulin-deficient miceExtent of neurodegenerationCommon neurodegenerative disorderLysosomal acidificationLysosomal enzyme levelsProtein 1Microglial accumulationRisk modificationFTLD riskBehavioral abnormalitiesRetinal degenerationNeurodegenerative disordersFrontotemporal dementiaGRNTMEM106BFunctional relationshipEnzyme levels
2015
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with DNAJC5/CSPα mutation has PPT1 pathology and exhibit aberrant protein palmitoylation
Henderson MX, Wirak GS, Zhang YQ, Dai F, Ginsberg SD, Dolzhanskaya N, Staropoli JF, Nijssen PC, Lam TT, Roth AF, Davis NG, Dawson G, Velinov M, Chandra SS. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with DNAJC5/CSPα mutation has PPT1 pathology and exhibit aberrant protein palmitoylation. Acta Neuropathologica 2015, 131: 621-637. PMID: 26659577, PMCID: PMC4791186, DOI: 10.1007/s00401-015-1512-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeuronal ceroid lipofuscinosesProtein palmitoylationDisease pathwaysPalmitoyl-protein thioesterase 1Forms of NCLEnzyme palmitoyl-protein thioesterase 1Disease-associated proteinsCommon disease pathwaysNCL genesQuantitative proteomicsCSPα mutationsSpecific enzymatic activityCSPαFunctional linkNeuronal ceroid lipofuscinosisGlobal changePPT1Synaptic proteinsEnzymatic activityCeroid lipofuscinosesPalmitoylationGenesCeroid lipofuscinosisNeurodegenerative disordersProtein
2014
Nonenzymatic domains of Kalirin7 contribute to spine morphogenesis through interactions with phosphoinositides and Abl
Ma XM, Miller MB, Vishwanatha KS, Gross MJ, Wang Y, Abbott T, Lam TT, Mains RE, Eipper BA. Nonenzymatic domains of Kalirin7 contribute to spine morphogenesis through interactions with phosphoinositides and Abl. Molecular Biology Of The Cell 2014, 25: 1458-1471. PMID: 24600045, PMCID: PMC4004595, DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-04-0215.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCalpainCells, CulturedDendritic SpinesGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsHippocampusMice, KnockoutNeuronsOncogene Proteins v-ablPeptide FragmentsPhosphatidylinositolsPhosphorylationProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProtein Structure, TertiaryProteolysisRats, Sprague-DawleySynapsesTransferrinConceptsGDP/GTP exchange factorSec14 domainSpectrin repeatsSpine morphogenesisNon-receptor tyrosine kinaseGTP exchange factorSpine formationNatural splice variantSpectrin repeat domainReceptor-mediated endocytosisRho GDP/GTP exchange factorDrosophila orthologueMembrane traffickingPhosphomimetic mutationExchange factorCalpain-mediated degradationRepeat domainTruncation mutantsTyrosine kinaseGenetic studiesCellular membranesSplice variantsRepeatsNonneuronal cellsMorphogenesis