LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson's disease

EM Rocha, MT Keeney, R Di Maio… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
The etiology of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (iPD) is multifactorial, and both genetics and
environmental exposures are risk factors. While mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 …

New developments in the field of genomic technologies and their relevance to conservation management

G Segelbacher, M Bosse, P Burger, P Galbusera… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Recent technological advances in the field of genomics offer conservation managers and
practitioners new tools to explore for conservation applications. Many of these tools are well …

Impact of 100 LRRK2 variants linked to Parkinson's disease on kinase activity and microtubule binding

AF Kalogeropulou, E Purlyte, F Tonelli… - Biochemical …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Mutations enhancing the kinase activity of leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 (LRRK2) cause
Parkinson's disease (PD) and therapies that reduce LRRK2 kinase activity are being tested …

Rab29-dependent asymmetrical activation of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2

H Zhu, F Tonelli, M Turk, A Prescott, DR Alessi, J Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Gain-of-function mutations in LRRK2, which encodes the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2
(LRRK2), are the most common genetic cause of late-onset Parkinson's disease. LRRK2 is …

Capturing differences in the regulation of LRRK2 dynamics and conformational states by small molecule kinase inhibitors

JH Weng, W Ma, J Wu, PK Sharma, S Silletti… - ACS chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mutations in the human leucine rich repeat protein kinase-2 (LRRK2) create risk factors for
Parkinson's disease, and pathological functions of LRRK2 are often correlated with aberrant …

Allosteric inhibition of Parkinson's-linked LRRK2 by constrained peptides

LG Helton, A Soliman, F von Zweydorf… - ACS chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a large, multidomain protein with dual kinase and
GTPase function that is commonly mutated in both familial and idiopathic Parkinson's …

LRRK2 dynamics analysis identifies allosteric control of the crosstalk between its catalytic domains

JH Weng, PC Aoto, R Lorenz, J Wu, SH Schmidt… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The 2 major molecular switches in biology, kinases and GTPases, are both contained in the
Parkinson disease–related leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2). Using hydrogen …

Structural insights and development of LRRK2 inhibitors for Parkinson's disease in the last decade

G Thakur, V Kumar, KW Lee, C Won - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease,
characterized by the specific loss of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. The …

LRRK2 structure-based activation mechanism and pathogenesis

X Zhang, A Kortholt - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mutations in the multidomain protein Leucine-rich-repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) have been
identified as a genetic risk factor for both sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease (PD) …

[HTML][HTML] Allostery and missense mutations as intermittently linked promising aspects of modern computational drug discovery

ÖT Bishop, TM Musyoka, V Barozi - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug research and development is a multidisciplinary field with its own successes. Yet,
given the complexity of the process, it also faces challenges over the long development …