Monoamine Oxidases: From Tissue Homogenates to Transgenic Mice

Neurochemical Research - Tập 32 - Trang 1757-1761 - 2007
Jean Chen Shih1,2
1Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Tóm tắt

The regulation, structure and function of monoamine oxidases (MAO’s) have been a subject of my research for many years. Studies of the enzyme have moved from early biochemical experiments, where different forms were biochemically characterized, to the molecular biology revolution where the genes for MAO A and MAO B were cloned and sequenced. Analyses of the signal pathways of gene regulation and specific transcriptional repression of MAO gene expression followed, as did the elucidation of the role of MAO in apoptosis. And importantly, MAO’s impact on behavioral states of both mice and human beings was discovered. It is fulfilling and humbling to see how our early experiments with tissue homogenates and MAO A and MAO B gene cloning built a foundation for so much subsequent understanding of the molecular and genetic components underlying certain behaviors.

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