Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?

MB Fares, S Jagannath, HA Lashuel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Lewy bodies (LBs) are α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich intracellular inclusions that are an important
pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases …

The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

AL Mahul-Mellier, J Burtscher… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated
α-synuclein (α-syn) into intraneuronal inclusions named Lewy bodies (LBs). Although it is …

Exogenous α-synuclein fibrils seed the formation of Lewy body-like intracellular inclusions in cultured cells

KC Luk, C Song, P O'Brien, A Stieber… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Cytoplasmic inclusions containing α-synuclein (α-Syn) fibrils, referred to as Lewy bodies
(LBs), are the signature neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD). Although …

Modeling Lewy pathology propagation in Parkinson's disease

KC Luk, VMY Lee - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Summary Lewy bodies (LBs) and Lewy neurites (LNs), comprised of alpha-synuclein (aSyn),
are intraneuronal inclusions that characterize Parkinson's disease. Although the association …

Exogenous α-synuclein fibrils induce Lewy body pathology leading to synaptic dysfunction and neuron death

LA Volpicelli-Daley, KC Luk, TP Patel, SA Tanik… - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
Inclusions composed of α-synuclein (α-syn), ie, Lewy bodies (LBs) and Lewy neurites (LNs),
define synucleinopathies including Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy …

Alpha-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease

A Recasens, B Dehay - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Formation and accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates are a central hallmark of
several neurodegenerative diseases. In Parkinson's disease (PD), the aggregation-prone …

[HTML][HTML] Do Lewy bodies contain alpha-synuclein fibrils? and Does it matter? A brief history and critical analysis of recent reports

HA Lashuel - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
Several lines of evidence from neuropathological studies, human genetics, in vitro
aggregation studies and cellular and animal models support the hypothesis that aSyn plays …

α-Synuclein aggregates amplified from patient-derived Lewy bodies recapitulate Lewy body diseases in mice

N Uemura, NP Marotta, J Ara, ES Meymand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extraction of α-Synuclein (αSyn) aggregates from Lewy body disease (LBD) brains has been
widely described yet templated fibrillization of LB-αSyn often fails to propagate its structural …

Calpain-cleavage of α-synuclein: connecting proteolytic processing to disease-linked aggregation

BM Dufty, LR Warner, ST Hou, SX Jiang… - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are both characterized
pathologically by the presence of neuronal inclusions termed Lewy bodies (LBs). A common …

E46K human α-synuclein transgenic mice develop lewy-like and tau pathology associated with age-dependent, detrimental motor impairment

KL Emmer, EA Waxman, JP Covy, BI Giasson - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Synucleinopathies are a group of neurodegenerative disorders associated with the
formation of aberrant amyloid inclusions composed of the normally soluble presynaptic …