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- Title
Zinc in Regulating Protein Kinases and Phosphatases in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
- Authors
Zhang, Hui-Liang; Wang, Xiao-Chuan; Liu, Rong
- Abstract
Zinc is essential for human growth and development. As a trace nutrient, zinc plays important roles in numerous signal transduction pathways involved in distinct physiologic or pathologic processes. Protein phosphorylation is a posttranslational modification which regulates protein activity, degradation, and interaction with other molecules. Protein kinases (PKs) and phosphatases (PPs), with their effects of adding phosphate to or removing phosphate from certain substrates, are master regulators in controlling the phosphorylation of proteins. In this review, we summarize the disturbance of zinc homeostasis and role of zinc disturbance in regulating protein kinases and protein phosphatases in neurodegenerative diseases, with the focus of that in Alzheimer's disease, providing a new perspective for understanding the mechanisms of these neurologic diseases.
- Subjects
PROTEIN kinases; PHOSPHOPROTEIN phosphatases; ZINC proteins; NEURODEGENERATION; ALZHEIMER'S disease
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 6, p785
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom12060785