- Phosphorylation of α-dystrobrevin is essential for αkap accumulation and acetylcholine receptor stability. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2020 Jul 31;295(31):10677-10688.
- The disassembly of the neuromuscular synapse in high-fat diet-induced obese male mice. Molecular Metabolism. 2020 Jun;36:100979. doi:10.1016/j.molmet.2020.100979. https://twitter.com/i/status/1272586579488489472
- Belhasan DC, Akaaboune M. The role of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex on the neuromuscular system. Neurosci Lett. 2020 Mar 23;722:134833 (Review)
- Herranz-Martin S, Chandran J, Lewis K, Mulcahy P, Higginbottom A, Walker C, Valenzuela IMY, Jones RA, Coldicott I, Iannitti T, Akaaboune M, El-Khamisy SF, Gillingwater TH, Shaw PJ, Azzouz M. Viral delivery of C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in mice leads to repeat-length-dependent neuropathology and behavioural deficits. Dis Model Mech. 2017 Jul 1;10(7):859-868.
- Aittaleb M, Martinez-Pena Y Valenzuela I, Akaaboune M. Spatial distribution and molecular dynamics of dystrophin glycoprotein components at the neuromuscular junction in vivo. J Cell Sci. 2017 May 15;130(10):1752-1759.
- Zygmunt DA, Singhal N, Kim ML, Cramer ML, Crowe KE, Xu R, Jia Y, Adair J, Martinez-Pena Y Valenzuela I, Akaaboune M, White P, Janssen PM, Martin PT. Deletion of Pofut1 in Mouse Skeletal Myofibers Induces Muscle Aging-Related Phenotypes in cis and in trans. Mol Cell Biol. 2017 May 2;37(10):e00426-16.
- AChRs Are Essential for the Targeting of Rapsyn to the Postsynaptic Membrane of NMJs in Living Mice. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2016 May 25;36(21):5680-5.
- Mohamed Aittaleb, Po-Ju Chen, and Mohammed Akaaboune. Failure of Lysosome Clustering and positioning in the Juxtanuclear Region in Cells Deficient in Rapsyn.The Journal of Cell Science, 2015 Oct 15;128(20):3744-56.
- Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela, Mohamed Aittaleb, Po-Ju Chen, and Mohammed Akaaboune.The knockdown of αkap alters the postsynaptic apparatus of neuromuscular junctions in living mice. The Journal of Neuroscience, April 2015, 35(13):5118-5127. PDF.
- CLASP2-dependent microtubule capture at the neuromuscular junction membrane requires LL5β and actin for focal delivery of acetylcholine receptor vesicles. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2015 Mar 1;26(5):938-51. PDF
- Brenner HR, Akaaboune M. Recycling of acetylcholine receptors at ectopic postsynaptic clusters induced by exogenous agrin in living rats. Dev. Biol. 2014 Aug 2. pii: S0012-1606(14)00354-6. PDF
- Chakib Mouslim*, Mohamed Aittaleb*, Richard I. Hume, and Mohammed Akaaboune. A role for the CaM Kinase II related anchoring protein (αkap) in maintaining the stability of nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. (2012). The Journal of Neuroscience. 2012 Apr 11;32(15):5177-85. PDF
- Nadine Hardel#, Mohammed Akaaboune#, Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela, Sarah Wakefield, Raphael Thurnheer, and Hans Rudolf Brenneror. Neuregulin/ErbB stabilizes the postsynaptic apparatus of the neuromuscular junction. (2011). The Journal of Cell Biology. 2011 Dec 26;195(7):1171-84. Epub 2011 Dec 19. (# Mohammed Akaaboune is a Co-first and corresponding author).
- Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela, Chakib Mouslim, Marcelo Pires-Oliveira, Marvin E. Adams, Stanley C. Froehner, and Mohammed Akaaboune. Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Stability at the NMJ Deficient in α-syntrophin in vivo. (2011). The Journal of Neuroscience. Oct 26;31(43):15586-96. PDF
- Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela, Chakib Mouslim and Mohammed Akaaboune. Calcium/Calmodulin Kinase II-dependent AChR Cycling at the Mammalian Neuromuscular Junction in Vivo. (2010). The Journal of Neuroscience. 30: 12455-12465. PDF
- Emile G.Bruneau and Mohammed Akaaboune. Dynamics of the Rapsyn Scaffolding Protein at the Neuromuscular Junction of Live Mice. (2010). The Journal of Neuroscience. 2010 Jan 13;30(2):614-9. PDF
- Emile G. Bruneau, Jose Esteban and Akaaboune M. Receptor-Associated Proteins and Synaptic Plasticity. (2009). FASEBJ. 23(3):679-88. PDF
- Emile G. Bruneau, Daniel S. Brenner, John Y. Kuwada and Akaaboune M. Acetylcholine receptors are required for the insertion and maintenance of post-synaptic scaffolding proteins. (2008). Current Biology 2008. Jan 22;18(2):109-15. PDF
- Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela and Mohammed Akaaboune. Acetylcholinesterase Mobility and Stability at the Neuromuscular Junction of Living Mice. (2007). Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2007 Aug;18(8):2904-11. PDF
- Emile G. Bruneau and Mohammed Akaaboune. The dynamics of the rapsyn scaffolding protein at individual acetylcholine receptor clusters. (2007). J Biol Chem. Mar 30;282(13):9932-40. Epub 2007 Feb 5. PDF
- Emile Bruneau and Mohammed Akaaboune. The Dynamics of Recycled Acetylcholine Receptors at the Neuromuscular Junction in vivo. (2006). Development. EPub 2006 Oct 18 [Epub ahead of print]. PDF
- Emile Bruneau and Mohammed Akaaboune. Running to Stand Still, Ionotropic Receptor Dynamics at Central and Peripheral Syanpses. (2006). Molecular Neurobiology. (2):137-152. PDF
- Krejci E, Martinez-Pena Y Valenzuela I, Ameziane R, and Akaaboune M. Acetylcholinesterase dynamics at the Neuromuscular Junction of Live Animals. (2006). J Biol Chem. Apr 14;281(15):10347-54. PDF
- Bruneau EG, Macpherson PC, Goldman D, Hume RI, Akaaboune M. The effect of agrin and laminin on acetylcholine receptor dynamics in vitro. (2005). Dev Biol. Dec 1;288(1):248-58. Epub 2005 Oct 26. PDF
- Bruneau E, Sutter D, Hume RI, and Mohammed Akaaboune. Identification of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Recycling and its Role in Maintaining Receptor Density at the Neuromuscular Junction in vivo. (2005). Journal of Neuroscience. 25:9949-59. PDF
- Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela I, Hume RI, Krejci E, and Akaaboune M. In Vivo Regulation of Acetylcholinesterase Insertion at the Neuromuscular Junction. (2005). J Biol Chem. 280(36):31801-8. Epub 2005 Jul 5. PDF
- Grady RM, Akaaboune M. Cohen AL, Maimone MM, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. Tyrosine-phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated isoforms of {alpha}-dystrobrevin: roles in skeletal muscle and its neuromuscular and myotendinous junctions. (2003). J Cell Biol. 160: 741-752. PDF
- Akaaboune M, Grady RM, Turney S, Sanes JR, and Lichtman JW. Neurotransmitter Receptor Dynamics Studied in vivo by Reversible Photo-Unbinding of Fluorescent Ligands. (2002). Neuron. 34: 865-876. PubMed
- Akaaboune M., Allinquant B., Farza H., Roy K., Magoul R., Fiszman M., Festoff B.W., Hantai D. Developmental regulation of amyloid precursor protein at the neuromuscular junction in mouse skeletal muscle. (2000). Molecular & Cellular Neurosciences. 15: 355-67. PubMed
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- Akaaboune M., Hantai D., Smirnova I., Lachkar S., Kapsimali M., Verdiere-Sahuque M., Festoff B.W. Developmental regulation of the serpin, protease nexin I, localization during activity-dependent polyneuronal synapse elimination in mouse skeletal muscle. (1998). Journal of Comparative Neurology. 39: 572-9. PubMed
