Jackie de Belleroche

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macro-autophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: A missense mutation in the gene encoding fused in sarcoma (FUS) in a British kindred, linked to ALS6, is identified, which suggests that a common mechanism may underlie motor neuron degeneration.

TL;DR: This review provides a synthesis of intracellular ER signalling revolving around proteostasis and the UPR, its impact on other organelles and cellular behaviour, its multifaceted and dynamic response to stress and its role in physiology.

TL;DR: High-density gene discovery arrays (GDA human version 1.2) containing 18 400 non-redundant EST cDNAs pooled from different tissue libraries have been used to monitor gene expression in lumbar spinal cord from ALS cases compared with controls, revealing differential expression of c DNAs normalized to internal standards.

TL;DR: It is shown that this newly identified mutation in human FALS has a pathogenic effect, supporting and reinforcing the role of VAPB as a causative gene of ALS.