Recent advances in cerebral cavernous malformation research

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are manifested by microvascular lesions characterized by leaky endothelial cells with minimal intervening parenchyma predominantly in the central nervous system predisposed to hemorrhagic stroke, resulting in focal neurological defects. Till date, three proteins are implicated in this condition: CCM1 (KRIT1), CCM2 (MGC4607), and CCM3 (PDCD10). These multi-domain proteins form a protein complex via CCM2 that function as a docking site for the CCM signaling complex, which modulates many signaling pathways. Defects in the formation of this signaling complex have been shown to affect a wide range of cellular processes including cell-cell contact stability, vascular angiogenesis, oxidative damage protection and multiple biogenic events. In this review we provide an update on recent advances in structure and function of these CCM proteins, especially focusing on the signaling cascades involved in CCM pathogenesis and the resultant CCM cellular phenotypes in the past decade.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2

Enthalten in:

Vessel plus - 2(2018) vom: 22.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Padarti, Akhil [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Angiogenesis
Cellular function
Cerebral cavernous malformation
Cerebral cavernous malformation signaling complex
Endothelial cells
Function domain
Journal Article
Microvessel lesions
Motif
Protein structure

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Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.20517/2574-1209.2018.34

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM299725111