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ReviewCytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.)2016

Actin dynamics and cofilin-actin rods in alzheimer disease.

James R Bamburg, Barbara W Bernstein

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Review in Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers.

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117citing papers in PubMed
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

117 citing papers in PubMed, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

James R BamburgDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. James.bamburg@colostate.edu.
Barbara W BernsteinDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Colorado State University · US

Funding

PrPC- and NOX-dependent signaling in dementiaR01AG049668 · NIA · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BAMBURG, JAMES R · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
Role of cofilin pathology in mouse models of cognitive impairmentR21AG044812 · NIA · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BAMBURG, JAMES R · 2013 to 2014
$409k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG049668NIA NIH HHS R21 AG044812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytoskeletal abnormalities and synaptic loss, typical of both familial and sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD), are induced by diverse stresses such as neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and energetic stress, each of which may be initiated or enhanced by proinflammatory cytokines or amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides. Extracellular Aβ-containing plaques and intracellular phospho-tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles are postmortem pathologies required to confirm AD and have been the focus of most studies. However, AD brain, but not normal brain, also have increased levels of cytoplasmic rod-shaped bundles of filaments composed of ADF/cofilin-actin in a 1:1 complex (rods). Cofilin, the major ADF/cofilin isoform in mammalian neurons, severs actin filaments at low cofilin/actin ratios and stabilizes filaments at high cofilin/actin ratios. It binds cooperatively to ADP-actin subunits in F-actin. Cofilin is activated by dephosphorylation and may be oxidized in stressed neurons to form disulfide-linked dimers, required for bundling cofilin-actin filaments into stable rods. Rods form within neurites causing synaptic dysfunction by sequestering cofilin, disrupting normal actin dynamics, blocking transport, and exacerbating mitochondrial membrane potential loss. Aβ and proinflammatory cytokines induce rods through a cellular prion protein-dependent activation of NADPH oxidase and production of reactive oxygen species. Here we review recent advances in our understanding of cofilin biochemistry, rod formation, and the development of cognitive deficits. We will then discuss rod formation as a molecular pathway for synapse loss that may be common between all three prominent current AD hypotheses, thus making rods an attractive therapeutic target. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Indexed as

Actin CytoskeletonActin Depolymerizing FactorsActinsAdenosine DiphosphateAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsBiological Transport, ActiveHumansProtein MultimerizationActin Depolymerizing FactorsActinsAdenosine DiphosphateAmyloid beta-Peptidesamyloid-βNADPH oxidaseoxidative stressprion signalingproinflammatory cytokines

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PMID26873625
PMCPMC5345344
OpenAlexW2272690659

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