Lafora disease—from pathogenesis to treatment strategies

F Nitschke, SJ Ahonen, S Nitschke, S Mitra… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Lafora disease is a severe, autosomal recessive, progressive myoclonus epilepsy. The
disease usually manifests in previously healthy adolescents, and death commonly occurs …

Lafora disease

J Turnbull, E Tiberia, P Striano, P Genton… - Epileptic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lafora disease (LD) is an autosomal recessive progressive myoclonus epilepsy due to
mutations in the EPM2A (laforin) and EPM2B (malin) genes, with no substantial genotype …

Targeting pathogenic Lafora bodies in Lafora disease using an antibody-enzyme fusion

MK Brewer, A Uittenbogaard, GL Austin, DM Segvich… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Lafora disease (LD) is a fatal childhood epilepsy caused by recessive mutations in either the
EPM2A or EPM2B gene. A hallmark of LD is the intracellular accumulation of insoluble …

Inhibiting glycogen synthesis prevents Lafora disease in a mouse model

BA Pederson, J Turnbull, JR Epp… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Lafora disease (LD) is a fatal progressive myoclonus epilepsy characterized
neuropathologically by aggregates of abnormally structured glycogen and proteins (Lafora …

Trehalose ameliorates seizure susceptibility in lafora disease mouse models by suppressing neuroinflammation and endoplasmic reticulum stress

P Sinha, B Verma, S Ganesh - Molecular neurobiology, 2021 - Springer
Lafora disease (LD) is one of the progressive and fatal forms of a neurodegenerative
disorder and is characterized by teenage-onset myoclonic seizures. Neuropathological …

Lafora disease: Current biology and therapeutic approaches

S Mitra, E Gumusgoz, BA Minassian - Revue neurologique, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin system impacts most cellular processes and is altered in numerous
neurodegenerative diseases. However, little is known about its role in neurodegenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperphosphorylation of glucosyl C6 carbons and altered structure of glycogen in the neurodegenerative epilepsy Lafora disease

F Nitschke, P Wang, P Schmieder, JM Girard… - Cell metabolism, 2013 - cell.com
Laforin or malin deficiency causes Lafora disease, characterized by altered glycogen
metabolism and teenage-onset neurodegeneration with intractable and invariably fatal …

Skeletal muscle glycogen chain length correlates with insolubility in mouse models of polyglucosan-associated neurodegenerative diseases

MA Sullivan, S Nitschke, EP Skwara, P Wang, X Zhao… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Lafora disease (LD) and adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD) are glycogen storage
diseases characterized by a pathogenic buildup of insoluble glycogen. Mechanisms causing …

Polyglucosan storage myopathies

C Hedberg-Oldfors, A Oldfors - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Polyglucosan is an amylopectin-like polysaccharide associated with defective glycogen
metabolism and, unlike normal glycogen, it is to some extent resistant to α-amylase …

PTG protein depletion rescues malin‐deficient Lafora disease in mouse

J Turnbull, JR Epp, D Goldsmith, X Zhao… - Annals of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ubiquitin ligases regulate quantities and activities of target proteins, often pleiotropically.
The malin ubiquitin E3 ligase is reported to regulate autophagy, the misfolded protein …