Metabolic activity determines efficacy of macroautophagic clearance of pathological oligomeric α-synuclein

WH Yu, B Dorado, HY Figueroa, L Wang… - The American journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Macroautophagy is an essential degradative pathway that can be induced to clear
aggregated proteins, such as those found in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy …

Lewy Body-like α-Synuclein Aggregates Resist Degradation and Impair Macroautophagy*♦

SA Tanik, CE Schultheiss, LA Volpicelli-Daley… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Cytoplasmic α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregates, referred to as Lewy bodies, are pathological
hallmarks of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, most notably Parkinson disease …

Alpha-synuclein's degradation in vivo: opening a new (cranial) window on the roles of degradation pathways in Parkinson disease

D Ebrahimi-Fakhari, PJ McLean, VK Unni - Autophagy, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Progressive accumulation of α-synuclein is key to the pathology of many neurodegenerative
diseases, including Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Increased …

Mitochondrial impairment and oxidative stress compromise autophagosomal degradation of α‐synuclein in oligodendroglial cells

K Pukaß, O Goldbaum… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract α‐Synuclein (α‐syn)‐containing glial cytoplasmic inclusions originating in
oligodendrocytes are characteristically observed in multiple system atrophy. The …

Regional deficiencies in chaperone-mediated autophagy underlie α-synuclein aggregation and neurodegeneration

KA Malkus, H Ischiropoulos - Neurobiology of disease, 2012 - Elsevier
In neurodegenerative diseases, it remains unclear why certain brain regions are selectively
vulnerable to protein aggregation. In transgenic mice expressing human A53T α-synuclein …

Autophagy in synucleinopathy: the overwhelmed and defective machinery

ML Arotcarena, M Teil, B Dehay - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Alpha-synuclein positive-intracytoplasmic inclusions are the common denominators of the
synucleinopathies present as Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy …

Selective molecular alterations in the autophagy pathway in patients with Lewy body disease and in models of α-synucleinopathy

L Crews, B Spencer, P Desplats, C Patrick, A Paulino… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Lewy body disease is a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders
characterized by α-synuclein accumulation that includes dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) …

alpha-synuclein degradation by autophagic pathways: a potential key to Parkinson's disease pathogenesis

M Xilouri, T Vogiatzi, L Stefanis - Autophagy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The neuronal protein alpha-synuclein is thought to be central in the pathogenesis of
Parkinson's Disease (PD). Excessive wild type alpha-synuclein levels can lead to PD in …

Mutant A53T α-synuclein induces neuronal death by increasing mitochondrial autophagy

V Choubey, D Safiulina, A Vaarmann… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Parkinson disease is characterized by the accumulation of aggregated α-synuclein as the
major component of the Lewy bodies. α-Synuclein accumulation in turn leads to …

The Parkinson disease protein α-synuclein inhibits autophagy

AR Winslow, DC Rubinsztein - Autophagy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Parkinson disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder affecting people. It is
characterized by the accumulation of the protein α-synuclein in Lewy body inclusions in …