Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Involvement of PGC-1α in the formation and maintenance of neuronal dendritic spines

Involvement of PGC-1α in the formation and maintenance of neuronal dendritic spines. Aiwu Cheng, Ruiqian Wan, Jenq-Lin Yang, Naomi Kamimura, Tae Gen Son, Xin Ouyang, Yongquan Luo, Eitan Okun & Mark P. Mattson. Nature Communications 3, Article number: 1250; doi:10.1038/ncomms2238

Keywords: synapses, neuronal circuits, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ co-activator 1α, mitochondrial biogenesis, dendritic spines, hippocampal neurons, dendritic spines.

Dr Tremblay: Development of a potential therapy for Friedreich ataxia

Dr Tremblay: Development of a potential therapy for Friedreich ataxia (english)
04/12/2012 by Acaf Fondation Claude St-Jean

Iron binding activity is essential for the function of IscA in iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis


Iron binding activity is essential for the function of IscA in iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis; Aaron P. Landry , Zishuo Cheng and Huangen Ding; Dalton Trans., 2012, Accepted Manuscript. DOI: 10.1039/C2DT32000B

Keywords: Iron-sulphide cluster biogenesis, iron, sulphide, scaffold proteins, L-cysteine, cysteine desulfurases, IscA.