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ArticleBrain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)2016

Altered Machinery of Protein Synthesis in Alzheimer's: From the Nucleolus to the Ribosome.

Karina Hernández-Ortega, Paula Garcia-Esparcia, Laura Gil, José J Lucas, Isidre Ferrer

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Article in Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

145 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 234 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomic Studies of Blood and Six Brain Regions Identifies a Consensus of 15 Cross-Tissue Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease and Suggests an Origin of Cross-Study Heterogeneity.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025
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  19. Fibrillarin: bridging ribosome biogenesis and apoptosis in cellular stress and disease.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Karina Hernández-OrtegaInstitute of Neuropathology, Service of Pathologic Anatomy, IDIBELL-Bellvitge University Hospital, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.
Paula Garcia-EsparciaInstitute of Neuropathology, Service of Pathologic Anatomy, IDIBELL-Bellvitge University Hospital, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.
Laura GilDepartment of Genetics, Medical School, Alfonso X el Sabio University (UAX), Villanueva de la Cañada; Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
José J LucasNeuropathology, CIBERNED (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas), Madrid, Spain.
Isidre FerrerInstitute of Neuropathology, Service of Pathologic Anatomy, IDIBELL-Bellvitge University Hospital, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.
Universitat de Barcelona · ESBiomedical Research Networking Center on Neurodegenerative Diseases · ESUniversidad Alfonso X el Sabio · ESUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribosomes and protein synthesis have been reported to be altered in the cerebral cortex at advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Modifications in the hippocampus with disease progression have not been assessed. Sixty-seven cases including middle-aged (MA) and AD stages I-VI were analyzed. Nucleolar chaperones nucleolin, nucleophosmin and nucleoplasmin 3, and upstream binding transcription factor RNA polymerase I gene (UBTF) mRNAs are abnormally regulated and their protein levels reduced in AD. Histone modifications dimethylated histone H3K9 (H3K9me2) and acetylated histone H3K12 (H3K12ac) are decreased in CA1. Nuclear tau declines in CA1 and dentate gyrus (DG), and practically disappears in neurons with neurofibrillary tangles. Subunit 28 ribosomal RNA (28S rRNA) expression is altered in CA1 and DG in AD. Several genes encoding ribosomal proteins are abnormally regulated and protein levels of translation initiation factors eIF2α, eIF3η and eIF5, and elongation factor eEF2, are altered in the CA1 region in AD. These findings show alterations in the protein synthesis machinery in AD involving the nucleolus, nucleus and ribosomes in the hippocampus in AD some of them starting at first stages (I-II) preceding neuron loss. These changes may lie behind reduced numbers of dendritic branches and reduced synapses of CA1 and DG neurons which cause hippocampal atrophy.

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AdultAgedAlzheimer DiseaseCase-Control StudiesCell CountCell NucleusDisease ProgressionFemaleGene Expression RegulationHippocampusHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeuronsNuclear ProteinsPol1 Transcription Initiation Complex ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPol1 Transcription Initiation Complex ProteinsRibosomal Proteinstau ProteinsTranscriptional Elongation Factorstranscription factor UBFAlzheimer's diseaseelongation factors of protein synthesishistonesinitiation factorsnuclear taunucleolinnucleolusnucleophosminnucleoplasminnucleusprotein synthesisribosomal proteinsribosomeupstream binding transcription factor RNA polymerase I

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PMID26512942
PMCPMC8029302
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