The Ras Superfamily of Small GTPases in Non-neoplastic Cerebral Diseases

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Chao Pan¹  Yuan Wang²  Guo-Dong Gao²  Xue-Lian Wang²  Liang Qu²  Shi-Ming He³  Bing Lang⁴ 

[1] Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China;Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Military Medical University, Xi’an, China;Department of Neurosurgery, Xi’an International Medical Center, Xi’an, China;Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China;The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom;

关键词: small GTPases;    Ras superfamily;    Rho subfamily;    Rab subfamily;    Arf subfamily;    Ran subfamily;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnmol.2019.00121

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The small GTPases from the Ras superfamily play crucial roles in basic cellular processes during practically the entire process of neurodevelopment, including neurogenesis, differentiation, gene expression, membrane and protein traffic, vesicular trafficking, and synaptic plasticity. Small GTPases are key signal transducing enzymes that link extracellular cues to the neuronal responses required for the construction of neuronal networks, as well as for synaptic function and plasticity. Different subfamilies of small GTPases have been linked to a number of non-neoplastic cerebral diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), intellectual disability, epilepsy, drug addiction, Huntington’s disease (HD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and a large number of idiopathic cerebral diseases. Here, we attempted to make a clearer illustration of the relationship between Ras superfamily GTPases and non-neoplastic cerebral diseases, as well as their roles in the neural system. In future studies, potential treatments for non-neoplastic cerebral diseases which are based on small GTPase related signaling pathways should be explored further. In this paper, we review all the available literature in support of this possibility.

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