Opportunities and challenges of alpha-synuclein as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies

P Magalhães, HA Lashuel - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common progressive
neurodegenerative disease, develops and progresses for 10–15 years before the clinical …

Ultrastructural and biochemical classification of pathogenic tau, α-synuclein and TDP-43

A Tarutani, T Adachi, H Akatsu, Y Hashizume… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Intracellular accumulation of abnormal proteins with conformational changes is the defining
neuropathological feature of neurodegenerative diseases. The pathogenic proteins that …

Lysosomal exocytosis releases pathogenic α-synuclein species from neurons in synucleinopathy models

YX Xie, NN Naseri, J Fels, P Kharel, Y Na… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Considerable evidence supports the release of pathogenic aggregates of the neuronal
protein α-Synuclein (αSyn) into the extracellular space. While this release is proposed to …

The 3D structure of lipidic fibrils of α-synuclein

B Frieg, L Antonschmidt, C Dienemann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract α-synuclein misfolding and aggregation into fibrils is a common feature of α-
synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson's disease, in which α-synuclein fibrils are a …

Therapeutic functions of astrocytes to treat α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson's disease

Y Yang, JJ Song, YR Choi, S Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Intraneuronal inclusions of misfolded α-synuclein (α-syn) and prion-like spread of the
pathologic α-syn contribute to progressive neuronal death in Parkinson's disease (PD) …

Manganese promotes α-synuclein amyloid aggregation through the induction of protein phase transition

B Xu, S Huang, Y Liu, C Wan, Y Gu, D Wang… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is the major protein component of Lewy bodies, a key pathological
feature of Parkinson's disease (PD). The manganese ion Mn 2+ has been identified as an …

α‐synuclein seed amplification in CSF and brain from patients with different brain distributions of pathological α‐synuclein in the context of co‐pathology and non‐LBD …

MR Arnold, DG Coughlin, BH Brumbach… - Annals of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of α‐
synuclein seed amplification assay (αSyn‐SAA) in antemortem and postmortem …

Engineering antibody and protein therapeutics to cross the blood–brain barrier

P Zhao, N Zhang, Z An - Antibody Therapeutics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Diseases in the central nervous system (CNS) are often difficult to treat. Antibody-and
protein-based therapeutics hold huge promises in CNS disease treatment. However …

Effects of mutations and post-translational modifications on α-synuclein in vitro aggregation

SX Pancoe, YJ Wang, M Shimogawa, RM Perez… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fibrillar aggregates of the α-synuclein (αS) protein are the hallmark of Parkinson's Disease
and related neurodegenerative disorders. Characterization of the effects of mutations and …

Mechanisms of enhanced aggregation and fibril formation of Parkinson's disease-related variants of α-synuclein

T Ohgita, N Namba, H Kono, T Shimanouchi, H Saito - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into amyloid fibrils is closely associated with Parkinson's
disease (PD). Familial mutations or posttranslational truncations in α-syn are known as risk …