Publications

Boyer NP, Sharma R, Wiesner T, Parperis C, Delamare A, Pelletier F, Jullien N, Bhatt AM, Parra-Rivas LA, Kearney PJ, Shavarebi F, Leterrier C, Roy S. Spectrin condensates provide a nidus for assembling the axonal membrane-associated periodic skeleton. iScience. 2026 Jan 16;29(1):114454. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114454. 

Parra-Rivas LA, Sharma R, Rust TE, Bazick HO, Carlson-Stevermer J, Zylka MJ, Ogawa Y, Roy S. Protocol for CRISPR-based manipulation and visualization of endogenous α-synuclein in cultured mouse hippocampal neurons. STAR Protoc. 2025 Sep 19;6(3):103945. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103945. 

Aulston BD, Gimse K, Bazick HO, Kramar EA, Pizzo DP, Parra-Rivas LA, Sun J, Branes-Guerrero K, Checka N, Bagheri N, Satyadev N, Carlson-Stevermer J, Saito T, Saido TC, Audhya A, Wood MA, Zylka MJ, Saha K, Roy S. Long term rescue of Alzheimer's deficits in vivo by one-time gene-editing of App C-terminus. bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 7;. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.08.598099. 

Stavsky A*, Parra-Rivas LA*, Tal S, Riba J, Madhivanan K, Roy S, Gitler D. Synapsin E-domain is essential for α-synuclein function. Elife. 2024 May 7;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89687. 

Parra-Rivas LA, Madhivanan K, Aulston BD, Wang L, Prakashchand DD, Boyer NP, Saia-Cereda VM, Branes-Guerrero K, Pizzo DP, Bagchi P, Sundar VS, Tang Y, Das U, Scott DA, Rangamani P, Ogawa Y, Subhojit Roy. Serine-129 phosphorylation of α-synuclein is an activity-dependent trigger for physiologic protein-protein interactions and synaptic function. Neuron. 2023 Dec 20;111(24):4006-4023.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.11.020. 

Parra-Rivas LA, Palfreyman MT, Vu TN, Jorgensen EM. Interspecies complementation identifies a pathway to assemble SNAREs. iScience. 2022 Jul 15;25(7):104506. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104506. 

Ganguly A, Sharma R, Boyer NP, Wernert F, Phan S, Boassa D, Parra LA, Das U, Caillol G, Han X, Yates JR 3rd, Ellisman MH, Leterrier C, Roy S. Clathrin packets move in slow axonal transport and deliver functional payloads to synapses. Neuron. 2021 Sep 15;109(18):2884-2901.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.016. 

Schober ME, Requena DF, Maschek JA, Cox J, Parra LA, Lolofie A. Effects of controlled cortical impact and docosahexaenoic acid on rat pup fatty acid profiles. Behav Brain Res. 2020 Jan 27;378:112295. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112295.

Parra LA. In Vivo Analysis of a Gain-of-Function Mutation Confirms Unc18/Munc18's Role in Priming. J Neurosci. 2018 Jan 31;38(5):1055-1057. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3068-17.2017. Review. 

Parra LA, Baust TB, Smith AD, Jaumotte JD, Zigmond MJ, Torres S, Leak RK, Pino JA, Torres GE. The Molecular Chaperone Hsc70 Interacts with Tyrosine Hydroxylase to Regulate Enzyme Activity and Synaptic Vesicle Localization. J Biol Chem. 2016 Aug 19;291(34):17510-22. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.728782. 

Cartier EA, Parra LA, Baust TB, Quiroz M, Salazar G, Faundez V, Egaña L, Torres GE. A biochemical and functional protein complex involving dopamine synthesis and transport into synaptic vesicles. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jan 15;285(3):1957-66. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.054510. 

Requena DF*, Parra LA*, Baust TB, Quiroz M, Leak RK, Garcia-Olivares J, Torres GE. The molecular chaperone Hsc70 interacts with the vesicular monoamine transporter-2. J Neurochem. 2009 Jul;110(2):581-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06135.x. 

Egaña LA, Cuevas RA, Baust TB, Parra LA, Leak RK, Hochendoner S, Peña K, Quiroz M, Hong WC, Dorostkar MM, Janz R, Sitte HH, Torres GE. Physical and functional interaction between the dopamine transporter and the synaptic vesicle protein synaptogyrin-3. J Neurosci. 2009 Apr 8;29(14):4592-604. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4559-08.2009. 

Parra LA, Baust T, El Mestikawy S, Quiroz M, Hoffman B, Haflett JM, Yao JK, Torres GE. The orphan transporter Rxt1/NTT4 (SLC6A17) functions as a synaptic vesicle amino acid transporter selective for proline, glycine, leucine, and alanine. Mol Pharmacol. 2008 Dec;74(6):1521-32. doi: 10.1124/mol.108.050005. 

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