Publications by Brian Donal McCabe

Trio preserves motor synapses and prolongs motor ability during aging

Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe, Soumya Banerjee, Greta Limoni, Samuel William Vernon, Wei Jiao

The decline of motor ability is a hallmark feature of aging and is accompanied by degeneration of motor synaptic terminals. Consistent with this, Drosophila motor synapses undergo characteristic age -dependent structural fragmentation co -incident with dim ...

Cell Press2024

Chromosome-level organization of the regulatory genome in the Drosophila nervous system

Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Marion Leleu, Julien Dorier, Christian Iseli, Brian Donal McCabe, Rebecca Carolyn Smith

Previous studies have identified topologically associating domains (TADs) as basic units of genome organization. We present evidence of a previously unreported level of genome folding, where distant TAD pairs, megabases apart, interact to form meta-domains ...

2023

A conditional glutamatergic synaptic vesicle marker for Drosophila

Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe

Glutamate is a principal neurotransmitter used extensively by the nervous systems of all vertebrate and invertebrate animals. It is primarily an excitatory neurotransmitter that has been implicated in nervous system development, as well as a myriad of brai ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2022

The matricellular protein Drosophila Cellular Communication Network Factor is required for synaptic transmission and female fertility

Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe

Within the extracellular matrix, matricellular proteins are dynamically expressed nonstructural proteins that interact with cell surface receptors, growth factors, and proteases, as well as with structural matrix proteins. The cellular communication networ ...

Genetics Society America2022

Intact Drosophila central nervous system cellular quantitation reveals sexual dimorphism

Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Ying Shi, Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe, Soumya Banerjee, Samuel William Vernon, Wei Jiao, Gard Spreemann

Establishing with precision the quantity and identity of the cell types of the brain is a prerequisite for a detailed compendium of gene and protein expression in the central nervous system (CNS). Currently, however, strict quantitation of cell numbers has ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2022

Retromer deficiency in Tauopathy models enhances the truncation and toxicity of Tau

Graham Knott, Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe, Greta Limoni, Catherine Maclachlan, Wei Jiao

Alteration of the levels, localization or post-translational processing of the microtubule associated protein Tau is associated with many neurodegenerative disorders. Here we develop adult-onset models for human Tau (hTau) toxicity in Drosophila that enabl ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A conditional GABAergic synaptic vesicle marker for Drosophila

Brian Donal McCabe

Background: Throughout the animal kingdom, GABA is the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter of the nervous system. It is essential for maintaining the homeostatic balance between excitation and inhibition required for the brain to operate normally. Identi ...

2022

Miniature neurotransmission is required to maintain Drosophila synaptic structures during ageing

Olivier Burri, Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe, Soumya Banerjee, Samuel William Vernon, Wei Jiao

The decline of neuronal synapses is an established feature of ageing accompanied by the diminishment of neuronal function, and in the motor system at least, a reduction of behavioural capacity. Here, we have investigated Drosophila motor neuron synaptic te ...

Nature Research2021

The Links between ALS and NF-κB

Bernard Schneider, Brian Donal McCabe, Emma Charlotta Källstig

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease wherein motor neu-ron degeneration leads to muscle weakness, progressive paralysis, and death within 3–5 years ofdiagnosis. Currently, the cause of ALS is unknown but, as with several neuro ...

2021

Supplemental Data - Intact Drosophila Whole Brain Cellular Quantitation reveals Sexual Dimorphism

Brian Donal McCabe, Wei Jiao

Supplemental Figures, Datasets and Movies supporting the manuscript - Intact Drosophila Whole Brain Cellular Quantitation reveals Sexual Dimorphism. Wei Jiao, Gard Spreemann, Evelyne Ruchti, Soumya Banerjee, Ying Shi, R. Steven Stowers, Ka ...

Zenodo2021