Publications related to Phospholipase C

Quantifying single-cell diacylglycerol signaling kinetics after uncaging

Milena Maria Schuhmacher, Pavel Barahtjan

Studying the role of molecularly distinct lipid species in cell signaling remains challenging due to a scarcity of methods for performing quantitative lipid biochemistry in living cells. We have recently used lipid uncaging to quantify lipid -pro-tein affi ...

Cell Press2023

Exploitation of Unconventional Electrophiles in Enantioselective Pd(0)-Catalyzed C-H Functionalizations

Nicolai Cramer, Daria Grosheva

Asymmetric metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization is a powerful strategy for the rapid generation of complex target molecules from simple precursors. While aryl (pseudo) halides have been used as electrophilic substrates in enantioselective Pd(0)-catalyzed ...

2019

Oestrogen receptor alpha AF-1 and AF-2 domains have cell population-specific functions in the mammary epithelium

Cathrin Brisken, Ayyakkannu Ayyanan, Georgios Sflomos, Dalya Ataca, Valentina Scabia, Stéphanie Cagnet, Patrik Aouad

Oestrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) is a transcription factor with ligand-independent and ligand-dependent activation functions (AF)-1 and -2. Oestrogens control postnatal mammary gland development acting on a subset of mammary epithelial cells (MECs), ter ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Exploring biochemical pathways for mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) synthesis from synthesis gas

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

Mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) is an important petrochemical with widespread use in numerous consumer products. The current industrial MEG-production process relies on non-renewable fossil fuel-based feedstocks, such as petroleum, natural gas, and naphtha; hen ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Proteome-Wide Effect of 17-beta-Estradiol and Lipoxin A(4) in an Endometriotic Epithelial Cell Line

Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of women of reproductive age. This chronic, gynecological inflammatory disease results in a decreased quality of life for patients, with the main symptoms including chronic pelvic pain and infertility. The steroid ho ...

Frontiers Media Sa2016

ESCRT proteins restrict constitutive NF-kappa B signaling by trafficking cytokine receptors

Because signaling mediated by the transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) is initiated by ligands and receptors that can undergo internalization, we investigated how endocytic trafficking regulated this key physiological pathway. We deplet ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2016

The mitochondrial unfolded protein response - synchronizing genomes

Johan Auwerx, Virginija Jovaisaite

Maintenance of the mitochondrial proteome is performed primarily by chaperones, which fold and assemble proteins, and by proteases, which degrade excess damaged proteins. Upon various types of mitochondrial stress, triggered genetically or pharmacologicall ...

Current Biology Ltd2015

Partial promoter substitutions generating transcriptional sentinels of diverse signaling pathways in embryonic stem cells and mice

Anne Grapin-Botton

Extracellular signals in development, physiology, homeostasis and disease often act by regulating transcription. Herein we describe a general method and specific resources for determining where and when such signaling occurs in live animals and for systema ...

Company Of Biologists Ltd2012

Role of macrophage scavenger receptors in atherosclerosis

Accumulating evidence indicates that atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. The key innate immune cells that are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis are circulating monocytes and plaque macrophages. Complex interplay between immune ...

2012

Ablation of the Tumor Suppressor Histidine Triad Nucleotide Binding Protein 1 is Protective Against Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Gisèle Ferrand

The identification of cellular pathways capable of limiting ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury remains a frontier in medicine, and its clinical relevance is urgent. Histidine triad nucleotide binding protein 1 (HINT1) is a tumor suppressor that influences a ...

2011

Propagation of fast and slow intercellular Ca2+ waves in primary cultured arterial smooth muscle cells

Jean-Jacques Meister, Jean-Louis Bény, Nadia Halidi

Smooth muscle contraction is regulated by changes in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+). In response to stimulation, Ca2+ increase in a single cell can propagate to neighbouring cells through gap junctions, as intercellular Ca2+ waves. To investigate ...

2011

Calcium Dynamics and Intercellular Communication in Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells in Vitro

Nadia Halidi

Tissue blood flow is controlled by changes in the diameter of the arteries and arterioles through coordinated contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) within the vascular wall. The contraction of SMCs is primarily regulated by the intracell ...

EPFL2011

Implication of the JNK pathway in a rat model of Huntington's disease

Patrick Aebischer, Nicole Déglon

Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from the expansion of a glutamine repeat (polyQ) in the N-terminus of the huntingtin (htt) protein. Expression of polyQ-containing proteins has been previously shown to induce various cell ...

2009

Investigation of novel calcium-related events as suspected contributors to neurodegeneration

Nikita Rudinskiy

Calcium regulates neuronal signaling and viability through a vast range of cellular and molecular mechanisms. However, many details of these mechanisms still remain to be elucidated. It is believed that calcium-related pathways may comprise promising thera ...

EPFL2009

Phorbol esters modulate spontaneous and Ca2+-evoked transmitter release via acting on both munc13 and protein kinase C

Ralf Schneggenburger, Natalya Korogod

Diacylglycerol (DAG) and phorbol esters strongly potentiate transmitter release at synapses by activating protein kinase C (PKC) and members of the Munc13 family of presynaptic vesicle priming proteins. This PKC/Munc13 pathway has emerged as a crucial regu ...

Society for Neuroscience2008

Akt is altered in an animal model of Huntington's disease and in patients

Patrick Aebischer, Valérie Gafner, Nicole Déglon

The insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1)/Akt pathway plays a crucial role in Huntington's disease by phosphorylating the causative protein, polyQ-huntingtin, and abolishing its toxic properties [Humbert et al. (2002)Dev. Cell, 2, 831-837; Rangone et al. (2 ...

2005

Calcium dynamics and intercellular communication in arterial smooth muscle cells

Mathieu Lamboley

This thesis is a contribution to the field of cellular communication in arteries during vasomotion, i.e. rhythmic and spontaneous diameter oscillations of arteries. Investigating how individual smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and endothelial cells (ECs) calcium ...

EPFL2005

Evidence for signaling via gap junctions from smooth muscle to endothelial cells in rat mesenteric arteries: possible implication of a second messenger

Jean-Jacques Meister, Jean-Louis Bény, Roger Sauser, Michèle Koenigsberger, Philippe Pittet, Mathieu Lamboley

We investigated heterocellular communication in rat mesenteric arterial strips at the cellular level using confocal microscopy. To visualize Ca(2+) changes in different cell populations, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) were loaded with Fluo-4 and endothelial ce ...

Elsevier2005