Papers by André Klarsfeld
PLOS Genetics, Jan 10, 2017
M S-medecine Sciences, 1991
Physics Letters B, Jul 1, 1982
Molecular Microbiology, May 1, 1996
Bulletin d'histoire et d'épistémologie des sciences de la vie, 2007
Springer eBooks, 1989
The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is a membrane-bound allosteric protein which operates... more The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is a membrane-bound allosteric protein which operates, in the millisecond timescale, as an acetylcholine-gated cationic channel. The functional architecture of this heterologous α2 β γ δ pentamer is actively investigated (Changeux, 1981; Popot and Changeux, 1984; Hucho, 1986; Changeux et al., 1987; Lindstrom et al., 1987 and several papers in this Volume) and the regions of the molecule which form its two main functional domains: the acetylcholine binding site (Kao et al., 1984; Dennis et al., 1988) and the agonist gated ion channel (Giraudat et al., 1986, 1988; Oberthur et al., 1986; Hucho et al., 1986; Imoto et al., 1986, 1988; Leonard et al. in press; Oiki et al. in press) have recently been defined at the amino acid level.
Springer eBooks, 1984
The acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) is one of the best known membrane-bound allosteric proteins (... more The acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) is one of the best known membrane-bound allosteric proteins (reviewed by Changeux, 1981; Changeux et al., 1984). Integrated in the post-synaptic membrane of the cholinergic synapse (neuromuscular junction, electromotor synapse), it regulates the opening of a cation-selective ionic channel upon binding of the neurotransmitter (acetylcholine). In the course of the past fifteen years, the protein assembly which carries both the acetylcholine binding sites and the ion channel has been isolated and purified from fish (Electrophorus, Torpedo) electric organ and vertebrate muscle.
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PubMed, 1989
The Calcitonin-Gene Related Peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide present in chick spinal cord motoneuro... more The Calcitonin-Gene Related Peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide present in chick spinal cord motoneurons, increases the levels of surface acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and of the AChR alpha-subunit mRNA in cultured chick myotubes. Cholera toxin (CT), an activator of adenylate cyclase, produces a similar effect which does not add up with that of CGRP. Consistent with this observation, CGRP increases the content of cyclic AMP in chick muscle cells in culture. Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a blocker of voltage-sensitive Na+ channels, elevates the levels of AChR and of AChR alpha-subunit mRNA. This effect is additive with that of CGRP or CT. TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate), an activator of protein kinase C, decreases the level of AChR but has no effect on the level of AChR alpha-subunit mRNA. Interestingly, TPA inhibits the increase of AChR alpha-subunit mRNA caused by TTX without affecting that produced by CGRP or CT. These data suggest that CGRP, which coexists with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons, could be one of the anterograde factors (or a model of such factor) responsible for the enhanced expression of the genes coding for AChR subunits in subneural nuclei, via the activation of adenylate cyclase. Muscle electrical activity would then inhibit the expression of the same genes in extrajunctional nuclei, via another intracellular pathway.
Experimental Gerontology, Dec 1, 2016
European journal of biochemistry, Dec 1, 1991
Protein kinase C has previously been implicated in the regulation of chicken acetylcholine recept... more Protein kinase C has previously been implicated in the regulation of chicken acetylcholine receptor (AChR) gene expression. To investigate the molecular basis of this regulation, the promoter of the AChR alpha-subunit (alpha AChR) gene was linked to a reporter gene and introduced into cultured chick myotubes by transient transfection. Treatment of myotubes with protein-kinase-C-activating phorbol esters was found to inhibit promoter activity. These inhibitory actions were mediated by promoter sequences between nucleotides -110 and -45, relative to the start point of transcription of the alpha AChR gene. In particular, phorbol-ester responsiveness could be conferred by a short DNA sequence that contains one of the two MyoD binding sites of the alpha AChR gene muscle-specific enhancer. 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate was found to inhibit rapidly and potently the expression of mRNAs coding for the myogenic regulators CMD1 and myogenin. Moreover, its inhibitory effect on the alpha AChR gene promoter could be attenuated by cotransfection of a MyoD1 expression vector. These results provide a molecular basis for the previously demonstrated involvement of protein kinase C in the regulation of alpha AChR biosynthesis. In addition, they lend further support to the notion that myogenic proteins play an important role in the control of alpha AChR gene expression.
The EMBO Journal, Mar 1, 1989
Journal of Cell Biology, Sep 1, 1987
Physics Letters B, Jul 1, 1982
Physiology, Feb 1, 1989
Tools from recombinant DNA technology are now available to analyse the mechanisms that regulate t... more Tools from recombinant DNA technology are now available to analyse the mechanisms that regulate the expression of synaptic proteins during synapse formation and stabilization. This review focuses on the expression of the acetylcholine receptor, an essential and well-characterized component of the motor endplate.
Infection and Immunity, Apr 1, 1997
All virulence genes of Listeria monocytogenes identified to date are positively regulated by PrfA... more All virulence genes of Listeria monocytogenes identified to date are positively regulated by PrfA, a transcriptional activator belonging to the Crp-Fnr family. Low temperature and cellobiose are two environmental signals known to repress expression of virulence genes in L. monocytogenes. In the present work, we analyzed the effect of temperature and cellobiose on the expression of the PrfA protein. At low temperature, PrfA was undetected, although prfA monocistronic transcripts are present. In contrast, PrfA was fully expressed in the presence of cellobiose. These results strongly suggest that virulence gene activation depends on both the presence of PrfA and additional regulatory pathways that either modify PrfA or act synergistically with PrfA.
Neuron, Mar 1, 1989
Using primary cultures of chicken myotubes, we investigated the involvement of protein kinase C a... more Using primary cultures of chicken myotubes, we investigated the involvement of protein kinase C and Ca2+ in the repression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) biosynthesis by electrical activity. Treatment with the Ca*+ channel blocker verapamil or the Na+ channel blocker tetrodotoxin increased a subunit mRNA levels 11.5-to T5-fold. The effect of tetrodotoxin was abolished in the presence of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. Dantrolene, which blocks Ca*+ efflux from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, caused only a 1.7-fold increase in a subunit mRNA levels. Down regulation of protein kinase C by prolonged exposure to the phorbol ester TPA or inhibition of protein kinase C by staurosporine led to 8-to lo-fold increases in a subunit mRNA levels. Mature and precursor forms of AChR a subunit mRNA were found to vary in parallel throughout all of these treatments, suggesting that protein kinase C and Ca2+ ions may modulate AChR a subunit biosynthesis at the transcriptional level.
The EMBO Journal, Mar 1, 1991
We have obtained transgenic mice expressing nuclearly targeted ,B-galactosidase (nls-3-gal) under... more We have obtained transgenic mice expressing nuclearly targeted ,B-galactosidase (nls-3-gal) under the control of a chicken acetylcholine receptor a-subunit promoter. The expression of the transgene was detected in early somites, starting before embryonic day 9.5. In 13-day embryos, the expression pattern of the transgene closely paralleled that of the endogenous mouse a-subunit gene, assessed by in situ hybridization. Our results mustrate, with singlecell resolution, the tissue specificity of this a-subunit promoter during embryogenesis. After birth, the overall 3-galactosidase activity rapidly decreased with age. However, in diaphragms of newborn animals, 3-galactosidase activity selectively persisted in nuclei underlying the motor endplates. The latter were revealed by an acetylcholinesterase stain. Nls-,B-gal was also visualized by indirect immunofluorescence, while endplates were labelled with fluorescent a-bungarotoxin. Confocal microscopy unambiguously identified the more intensely stained nuclei as synaptic 'fundamental nuclei', and allowed estimates of relative staining levels. Thus an 842 bp acetylcholine receptor gene promoter confers preferential synaptic expression to a reporter gene within myofibres in vivo. Key words: confocal microscopy/fundamental nuclei/in situ hybridization/motor endplate/myogenesis /3-galactosidase with a nuclear location signal (nls-f3-gal; Kalderon et al., 1984). In RaeNLZ3, the nlslacZ gene is under the control of the minimal chicken AChR a-subunit promoter fragment (nucleotides-110 to +3) that is sufficient to drive myotube-specific expression in transfected cells in vitro (Wang et al., 1988; Piette et al., 1989). The a-subunit promoter fragment in RaNLZ2 extends up to
Cerveau & psycho, Jan 6, 2017
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