2023
Glia-neuron coupling via a bipartite sialylation pathway promotes neural transmission and stress tolerance in Drosophila
Scott H, Novikov B, Ugur B, Allen B, Mertsalov I, Monagas-Valentin P, Koff M, Robinson S, Aoki K, Veizaj R, Lefeber D, Tiemeyer M, Bellen H, Panin V. Glia-neuron coupling via a bipartite sialylation pathway promotes neural transmission and stress tolerance in Drosophila. ELife 2023, 12: e78280. PMID: 36946697, PMCID: PMC10110239, DOI: 10.7554/elife.78280.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSialylation pathwayCMP-sialic acid synthetaseStress toleranceAnimal developmentProtein functionVoltage-gated sodium channelsGlycan terminiNeural transmissionDedicated pathwaysGenesDifferent cellsPathwayOxidative stressSodium channelsSialic acidNervous systemNeural excitabilitySialylationToleranceNormal levelsNeural functionDrosophilaTerminusExcitabilitySynthetase
2022
Two neuronal peptides encoded from a single transcript regulate mitochondrial complex III in Drosophila
Bosch J, Ugur B, Pichardo-Casas I, Rabasco J, Escobedo F, Zuo Z, Brown B, Celniker S, Sinclair D, Bellen H, Perrimon N. Two neuronal peptides encoded from a single transcript regulate mitochondrial complex III in Drosophila. ELife 2022, 11: e82709. PMID: 36346220, PMCID: PMC9681215, DOI: 10.7554/elife.82709.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSmall open reading framesClasses of genesShares sequence similarityOpen reading frameSequence similarityBicistronic transcriptBiological functionsPhenotypic analysisMitochondrial functionImportant regulatorThousands of peptidesNeuronal functionGenesWealth of informationTranscriptsAnimal lethalityPeptidesRecent studiesParalogsDrosophilaSmORFsMitochondriaRegulatorRegulatesNeuronal peptides
2016
Drosophila tools and assays for the study of human diseases
Ugur B, Chen K, Bellen HJ. Drosophila tools and assays for the study of human diseases. Disease Models & Mechanisms 2016, 9: 235-244. PMID: 26935102, PMCID: PMC4833332, DOI: 10.1242/dmm.023762.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman diseasesHuman disease-causing genesUse of DrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterDisease-causing genesMolecular parallelsSpecific genesMolecular mechanismsPhysiological processesPathogenic mechanismsMorphological differencesCellular featuresFliesGenesMolecular pathogenesisInternal organ systemsAssaysCentral nervous systemDrosophilaMelanogasterVertebratesPowerful toolNervous systemOrgan systemsOrganisms