Department of Neuroscience

Research Abstract

Permanent disabilities following central nervous system (CNS) injuries result from the failure of injured axons to regenerate and re-build functional connections. The poor intrinsic regenerative capacity of mature CNS neurons is a major contributor to the regeneration failure and remains a major problem in neurobiology. In contrast to CNS neurons, peripheral sensory neurons successfully regenerate injured axons... read more

Selected Publications

• Cho Y, Shin JE, Ewan EE, Oh YM, Pita-Thomas W and Cavalli V. (2015) Activating injury-responsive genes with hypoxia enhances axon regeneration through neuronal HIF-1α. Neuron. 18:720-34
• Cho Y, Park D and Cavalli V. (2015) Filamin A is required in injured axons for HDAC5 activity and axon regeneration. J. Biol. Chem. 290(37):22759-70.
• Watt D, Dixit R and Cavalli V. (2015) JIP3 activates kinesin-1 motility to promote axon elongation. J. Biol. Chem. 290(25):15512-25.
• Song W, Cho Y, Watt D and Cavalli, V. (2015) Tubulin-tyrosine ligase (TTL)-mediated increase in tyrosinated α-tubulin in injured axons is required for retrograde injury signaling and axon regeneration. J Biol Chem. 290(23):14765-75.
• Cho Y*, DiLiberto V*, Carlin D, Li KH, Guan S, Michaelevski I, Abe N, Burlingame A, Cavalli V. (2014). Syntaxin13 expression is regulated by mammalian Target Of Rapamycin (mTOR) in injured neurons to promote axon regeneration. J. Biol. Chem. 289 (22);15820–15832.
• Cho Y and Cavalli V. (2014) HDAC signaling in neuronal development and regeneration. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 27: 188-126.
• Cho Y, Sloutsky R, Naegle KM and Cavalli V. (2013). Injury-induced HDAC5 nuclear export is essential for axon regeneration. Cell. 155, 894-908. Selected by Faculty of 1000. Highlighted article: Editor’s Choice Science Signaling, Nature Reviews in Neuroscience, The Scientist.
• Cho Y and Cavalli V. (2012) HDAC5 is a novel injury-regulated tubulin deacetylase controlling axon regeneration. EMBO Journal. 31:3063-78. Highlighted article: Chen L and Rolls M (2012) EMBO Journal 31(14):3033-5.
• Shin JE, Cho Y, Beirowski B, Milbrandt J, Cavalli V and DiAntonio A. (2012) Dual leucine zipper kinase is required for retrograde injury signaling and axonal regeneration. Neuron, 74: 1015-1022. Highlighted article: Nix P and Bastiani M (2012) Neuron. 74(6), 961-963.
• Sun F, Zhu Z, Dixit R and Cavalli V. (2011) Sunday Driver /JIP3 binds kinesin heavy chain directly and enhances its motility. EMBO Journal. 30:3416-29.
• Abe N, Borson SH, Gambello MJ, Wang F and Cavalli V. (2010) Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) activation increases axonal growth capacity of injured peripheral nerves. J. Biol. Chem. 285:28034-43.

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