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Fundación Instituto Leloir

FacilityBuenos Aires, Argentina
About: Fundación Instituto Leloir is a facility organization based out in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dentate gyrus & Neurogenesis. The organization has 702 authors who have published 1052 publications receiving 39299 citations.


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TL;DR: This study has revealed essential roles of Isl1 in multiple aspects of motor neuron development, including motor neuron cell body localization, motor column formation and axon growth, and is required for survival of cranial ganglia neurons.

94 citations

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21 Oct 2021-Science
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of adult hippocampal performance underlies psychiatric comorbidities and cognitive impairments in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, and found that the hippocampus' performance underlie psychiatric disorders.
Abstract: Disrupted hippocampal performance underlies psychiatric comorbidities and cognitive impairments in patients with neurodegenerative disorders. To understand the contribution of adult hippocampal neu...

94 citations

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TL;DR: This chapter presents the basic methodology for performing Far-UV CD measurements on a protein of interest and for identifying and characterizing intrinsically disordered regions, and several protocols for the analysis of residual secondary structure present in the protein under study.
Abstract: Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a simple and powerful technique, which allows for the assessment of the conformational properties of a protein or protein domain. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), as discussed throughout this series, differ from random coil polypeptides in that different regions present specific conformational preferences, exhibiting dynamic secondary structure content [1]. These dynamic secondary structure elements can be stabilized or perturbed by different chemical (solvent, ionic strength, pH) or physical (temperature) agents, by posttranslational modifications, and by ligands. This information is important for defining ID nature. As IDPs present dynamic conformations, circular dichroism measurements (and other approaches as well) should be carried out not as single spectra performed in unique conditions, but instead changing the chemical conditions and observing the behavior, as part of the determination of the ID nature.In this chapter, we present the basic methodology for performing Far-UV CD measurements on a protein of interest and for identifying and characterizing intrinsically disordered regions, and several protocols for the analysis of residual secondary structure present in the protein under study. These techniques are straightforward to perform; they require minimal training and can be preliminary to more complex methodologies such as NMR.

93 citations

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TL;DR: GEMIN2, a spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoprotein assembly factor conserved from yeast to humans, modulates low temperature effects on a large subset of pre-mRNA splicing events, which controls the AS of several clock genes and attenuates the effects of temperature on the circadian period in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Abstract: The mechanisms by which poikilothermic organisms ensure that biological processes are robust to temperature changes are largely unknown. Temperature compensation, the ability of circadian rhythms to maintain a relatively constant period over the broad range of temperatures resulting from seasonal fluctuations in environmental conditions, is a defining property of circadian networks. Temperature affects the alternative splicing (AS) of several clock genes in fungi, plants, and flies, but the splicing factors that modulate these effects to ensure clock accuracy throughout the year remain to be identified. Here we show that GEMIN2, a spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoprotein assembly factor conserved from yeast to humans, modulates low temperature effects on a large subset of pre-mRNA splicing events. In particular, GEMIN2 controls the AS of several clock genes and attenuates the effects of temperature on the circadian period in Arabidopsis thaliana. We conclude that GEMIN2 is a key component of a posttranscriptional regulatory mechanism that ensures the appropriate acclimation of plants to daily and seasonal changes in temperature conditions.

91 citations

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TL;DR: The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) forms oligomers with the heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) -based heterocomplex, which contains tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain immunophilins (IMM) and the unknown biological role of IMMs was investigated.
Abstract: The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) forms oligomers with the heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) -based heterocomplex, which contains tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain immunophilins (IMMs). Here we investigated the unknown biological role of IMMs in the MR.Hsp90 complex. Upon hormone binding, FKBP52 was greatly recruited to MR.Hsp90 complexes along with dynein motors, whereas FKBP51 was dissociated. Importantly, the Hsp90 inhibitor geldanamycin impaired the retrograde transport of MR, suggesting that the Hsp90.IMM.dynein molecular machinery is required for MR movement. To elucidate the mechanism of action of MR, the synthetic ligand 11,19-oxidoprogesterone was used as a tool. This steroid showed equivalent agonistic potency to natural agonists and was able to potentiate their mineralocorticoid action. Importantly, aldosterone binding recruited greater amounts of FKBP52 and dynein than 11,19-oxidoprogesterone binding to MR. Interestingly, 11,19-oxidoprogesterone binding also favored the selective recruitment of the IMM-like Ser/Thr phosphatase PP5. Each hormone/MR complex yielded different proteolytic peptide patterns, suggesting that MR acquires different conformations upon steroid binding. Also, hormone/MR complexes showed different nuclear translocation rates and subnuclear redistribution. All these observations may be related to the selective swapping of associated factors. We conclude that (a) the Hsp90.FKBP52.dyenin complex may be responsible for the retrotransport of MR; (b) a differential recruitment of TPR proteins such as FKBP51, FKBP52, and PP5 takes place during the early steps of hormone-dependent activation of the receptor; (c) importantly, this swapping of TPR proteins depends on the nature of the ligand; and (d) inasmuch as FKBP51 also showed an inhibitory effect on MR-dependent transcription, it should be dissociated from the MR.Hsp90 complex to positively regulate the mineralocorticoid effect.

91 citations


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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202210
2021107
202099
201986
201865
201781