Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

B Boland, WH Yu, O Corti, B Mollereau… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson
disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosomal acidification dysfunction in microglia: an emerging pathogenic mechanism of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

JD Quick, C Silva, JH Wong, KL Lim… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Microglia are the resident innate immune cells in the brain with a major role in orchestrating
immune responses. They also provide a frontline of host defense in the central nervous …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of a lysosomal storage disorder caused by Grn loss of function with a brain penetrant progranulin biologic

T Logan, MJ Simon, A Rana, GM Cherf, A Srivastava… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
GRN mutations cause frontotemporal dementia (GRN-FTD) due to deficiency in progranulin
(PGRN), a lysosomal and secreted protein with unclear function. Here, we found that Grn …

[HTML][HTML] Lysosome dysfunction as a cause of neurodegenerative diseases: Lessons from frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Root, P Merino, A Nuckols, M Johnson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders that are thought to exist on a clinical and pathological …

The identity and function of microglia in neurodegeneration

WM Song, M Colonna - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
The predominant type of immune cell in the brain is the microglia, a type of tissue-resident
macrophage. In a variety of neurodegenerative settings, microglia alter their transcriptional …

Lysosome trafficking and signaling in health and neurodegenerative diseases

PPY Lie, RA Nixon - Neurobiology of disease, 2019 - Elsevier
Lysosomes, single-membrane organelles defined by a uniquely strong acidic lumenal pH
and high content of acid hydrolases, are the shared degradative compartments of the …

Loss of TREM2 rescues hyperactivation of microglia, but not lysosomal deficits and neurotoxicity in models of progranulin deficiency

A Reifschneider, S Robinson, B van Lengerich… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Haploinsufficiency of the progranulin (PGRN)‐encoding gene (GRN) causes frontotemporal
lobar degeneration (GRN‐FTLD) and results in microglial hyperactivation, TREM2 …

TDP-43 pathology: from noxious assembly to therapeutic removal

SS Keating, R San Gil, MEV Swanson, EL Scotter… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our understanding of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia has
advanced dramatically since the discovery of cytoplasmic TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP …

Lysosomal dysfunction at the centre of Parkinson's disease and frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

RL Wallings, SW Humble, ME Ward… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) and frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(FTD/ALS) are insidious and incurable neurodegenerative diseases that represent a …

Autophagy lysosomal pathway dysfunction in Parkinson's disease; evidence from human genetics

K Senkevich, Z Gan-Or - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, multiple lines of evidence from human genetic and molecular studies have
highlighted the importance of the autophagy lysosomal pathway (ALP) in Parkinson's …