ReviewBrain research bulletin2016
Microtubules in health and degenerative disease of the nervous system.
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77 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identification of a cytosol-to-nucleus feedback loop that regulates neuronal microtubule nucleation.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Article
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- Emerging Roles of Tubulin Isoforms and Their Post-Translational Modifications in Microtubule-Based Transport and Cellular Functions.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Imaging microtubule dynamics: A new frontier in biomarker development for neurodegenerative diseases.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Review
- Microtubule-Targeting Agents: Advances in Tubulin Binding and Small Molecule Therapy for Gliomas and Neurodegenerative Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Distinct Right Ventricular Performance in Response to Acute Colchicine Treatment in Healthy and Diseased States.Function (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Polyglutamylation of microtubules drives neuronal remodeling.Nature communications · 2025Article
- DNA methylation signature of a lifestyle-based resilience index for cognitive health.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Article
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- Mechanical stimulation prevents impairment of axon growth and overcompensates microtubule destabilization in cellular models of Alzheimer's disease and related Tau pathologies.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Microtubules, Membranes, and Movement: New Roles for Stathmin-2 in Axon Integrity.Journal of neuroscience research · 2024Review
- Raman Spectroscopy Reveals Photobiomodulation-Induced α-Helix to β-Sheet Transition in Tubulins: Potential Implications for Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Patronin regulates presynaptic microtubule organization and neuromuscular junction development iniScience · 2024Article
- Linking acetylated α-Tubulin redistribution to α-Synuclein pathology in brain of Parkinson's disease patients.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Mechanism of ribosome-associated mRNA degradation during tubulin autoregulation.Molecular cell · 2023Article
- Gene network revealsFrontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Axonal transport during injury on a theoretical axon.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Editorial: Cytoskeletal alterations in aging and disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Articular fibrocartilage-targeted therapy by microtubule stabilization.Science advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
Microtubules are essential for the development and maintenance of axons and dendrites throughout the life of the neuron, and are vulnerable to degradation and disorganization in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. Microtubules, polymers of tubulin heterodimers, are intrinsically polar structures with a plus end favored for assembly and disassembly and a minus end less favored for these dynamics. In the axon, microtubules are nearly uniformly oriented with plus ends out, whereas in dendrites, microtubules have mixed orientations. Microtubules in developing neurons typically have a stable domain toward the minus end and a labile domain toward the plus end. This domain structure becomes more complex during neuronal maturation when especially stable patches of polyaminated tubulin become more prominent within the microtubule. Microtubules are the substrates for molecular motor proteins that transport cargoes toward the plus or minus end of the microtubule, with motor-driven forces also responsible for organizing microtubules into their distinctive polarity patterns in axons and dendrites. A vast array of microtubule-regulatory proteins impart direct and indirect changes upon the microtubule arrays of the neuron, and these include microtubule-severing proteins as well as proteins responsible for the stability properties of the microtubules. During neurodegenerative diseases, microtubule mass is commonly diminished, and the potential exists for corruption of the microtubule polarity patterns and microtubule-mediated transport. These ill effects may be a primary causative factor in the disease or may be secondary effects, but regardless, therapeutics capable of correcting these microtubule abnormalities have great potential to improve the status of the degenerating nervous system.
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