KALRN

Last update 23 Jan 2025

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ARHGEF24, DUET, DUO

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Promotes the exchange of GDP by GTP. Activates specific Rho GTPase family members, thereby inducing various signaling mechanisms that regulate neuronal shape, growth, and plasticity, through their effects on the actin cytoskeleton. Induces lamellipodia independent of its GEF activity.

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01 Jan 2025·Analytica Chimica Acta

Nanobodies’ duo facilitates ultrasensitive serum HER-2/neu immunoassays via enhanced avidity interactions

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Author: Teodori, Laura ; Vendelbo, Mikkel H ; Kjems, Jørgen ; Ferapontova, Elena E ; Ferapontova, Elena ; Boonkaew, Suchanat

BACKGROUNDExisting liquid biopsy assays for protein biomarkers of cancer are mostly based on antibodies (Ab) contributing unfavorably to their high cost. Easy to express and modify in vitro, nanobodies may be a cost-effective alternative to Ab.RESULTSWe show that serum HER-2/neu, a biomarker and target of aggressive HER-2/neu(+) cancers, can be accurately detected in a 1.2 h electrochemical cellulase-linked sandwich nanobody/aptamer assay on magnetic beads. Using a single nanobody receptor, 2Rs15d or 2Rb17c, reduces immunoassay's sensitivity by 35%-26 %. A combination of two nanobodies as a duo-receptor recovers the sensitivity of the enzyme-linked nanobody/aptamer-sorbent assay (ELNASA) to 11.9 ± 2.8 μC fM^-1, due to the avidity effects making the nanobodies-duo binding properties comparable to those of Ab. Down to 0.1 fM HER-2/neu was detected by ELNASA in serum samples, with no interference from other blood-circulating proteins. In a 30 healthy-volunteers trial, ELNASA more accurately than optical ELISA assayed serum HER-2/neu.SIGNIFICANCEELNASA performance rivals that of ELISA, yet estimated to be at least 200 times cheaper, due to the lower cost of nanobodies production, and may be better suited for routine clinical analysis of HER-2/neu, particularly, in low- and middle-income settings with limited resources. The ELNASA approach is generic and may be adapted for specific and ultrasensitive analysis of other blood-circulating proteins.

03 Dec 2024·Cerebral Cortex

Identification and characterization of human KALRN mRNA and Kalirin protein isoforms

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Author: Hengerer, Bastian ; Bornemann, Klaus D ; Mould, Arne W ; Brennan, Paul E ; von Delft, Annette ; Tunbridge, Elizabeth M ; Haerty, Wilfried ; Hall, Nicola A L ; Drydale, Edward ; Harrison, Paul J ; Bancroft, James ; Wright, David J ; Pinnock, Rob

AbstractKalirin is a multidomain protein with important roles in neurite outgrowth, and synaptic spine formation and remodeling. Genetic and pathophysiological links with various neuropsychiatric disorders associated with synaptic dysfunction and cognitive impairment have sparked interest in its potential as a pharmacological target. Multiple Kalirin proteoforms are detected in the adult human brain, yet we know little about the diversity of the transcripts that encode them or their tissue profiles. Here, we characterized full-length KALRN transcripts expressed in the adult human frontal lobe and hippocampus using rapid amplification of complementary DNA (cDNA) ends and nanopore long-read sequencing. For comparison with non-neural tissue, we also analyzed KALRN transcripts in the aorta. Multiple novel isoforms were identified and were largely similar between the two brain regions analyzed. Alternative splicing in the brain results in preferential inclusion of exon 37, which encodes 32 amino acids upstream of the second guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) domain. Structural modeling predicts that a subset of these amino acids forms a conserved alpha helix. Although deletion of these amino acids had little effect on GEF activity, it did alter Kalirin-induced neurite outgrowth suggesting that this brain-enriched splicing event may be important for neural function. These data indicate that alternative splicing is potentially important for regulating Kalirin actions in the human brain.

01 Oct 2024·Brain Research Bulletin

GDNF facilitates cognitive function recovery following neonatal surgical-induced learning and memory impairment via activation of the RET pathway and modulation of downstream effectors PKMζ and Kalirin in rats

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Author: Li, Yi-Ze ; Yuan, Yuan ; Chen, Yi ; Jia, Zhen ; Zheng, Yu-Xin

OBJECTIVEThe aim of this study is to elucidate the underlying mechanism through which glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) improves cognitive deficits in adults resulting from neonatal surgical interventions.METHODSNewborn Sprague-Dawley rats, regardless of gender, were randomly allocated into seven groups on postnatal day 7 as follows (n=15): (1) Control group (not subjected to anesthesia, surgery, or any pharmaceutical interventions); (2) GDNF group (received intracerebroventricular injection of GDNF); (3) Surgery group (underwent right carotid artery exposure under anesthesia with 3 % sevoflurane); (4) Surgery plus GDNF group; (5) Surgery plus GDNF and type II JAK inhibitor NVP-BBT594 (BBT594) group (administered intraperitoneal injection of BBT594); (6) BBT group; and (7) Surgery plus BBT group. Starting from postnatal day 33, all rats underwent Barnes maze and fear conditioning tests, followed by decapitation under sevoflurane anesthesia for subsequent analyses. The left hemibrains underwent Golgi staining, while the right hemibrains were used for hippocampal protein extraction to assess Protein kinase Mζ (PKMζ) and Kalirin expression through western blotting.RESULTSGDNF demonstrated a mitigating effect on spatial learning and memory impairment, as well as context-related fear memory impairment, reductions in dendritic total lengths, and spinal density within the hippocampus induced by surgical intervention. Notably, all of these ameliorative effects of GDNF were reversed upon administration of the RET inhibitor BBT594. Additionally, GDNF alleviated the downregulation of protein expression of PKMζ and Kalirin in the hippocampus of rats subjected to surgery, subsequently reversed by BBT594.CONCLUSIONThe effective impact of GDNF on learning and memory impairment caused by surgical intervention appears to be mediated through the RET pathway. Moreover, GDNF may exert its influence by upregulating the expression of PKMζ and Kalirin, consequently enhancing the development of dendrites and dendritic spines.

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