Implication of alpha-synuclein phosphorylation at S129 in synucleinopathies: what have we learned in the last decade?

A Oueslati - Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Abnormal accumulation of proteinaceous intraneuronal inclusions called Lewy bodies (LBs)
is the neurpathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies …

Rab GTPases and membrane trafficking in neurodegeneration

FR Kiral, FE Kohrs, EJ Jin, PR Hiesinger - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Defects in membrane trafficking are hallmarks of neurodegeneration. Rab GTPases are key
regulators of membrane trafficking. Alterations of Rab GTPases, or the membrane …

Parkinson's disease: from synaptic loss to connectome dysfunction

A Bellucci, NB Mercuri, A Venneri… - Neuropathology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder with prominent loss of
nigro‐striatal dopaminergic neurons. The resultant dopamine (DA) deficiency underlies the …

[HTML][HTML] Alpha-synuclein function and dysfunction on cellular membranes

D Snead, D Eliezer - Experimental neurobiology, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alpha-synuclein is a small neuronal protein that is closely associated with the etiology of
Parkinson's disease. Mutations in and alterations in expression levels of alpha-synuclein …

Intracellular cholesterol trafficking and impact in neurodegeneration

F Arenas, C Garcia-Ruiz… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cholesterol is a critical component of membrane bilayers where it plays key structural and
functional roles by regulating the activity of diverse signaling platforms and pathways …

Synucleinopathies: Where we are and where we need to go

IC Brás, A Dominguez‐Meijide… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Synucleinopathies are a group of disorders characterized by the accumulation of inclusions
rich in the a‐synuclein (aSyn) protein. This group of disorders includes Parkinson's disease …

Rab GTPases: switching to human diseases

NA Guadagno, C Progida - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rab proteins compose the largest family of small GTPases and control the different steps of
intracellular membrane traffic. More recently, they have been shown to also regulate cell …

High throughput sequencing identifies microRNAs mediating α-synuclein toxicity by targeting neuroactive-ligand receptor interaction pathway in early stage of …

Y Kong, X Liang, L Liu, D Zhang, C Wan, Z Gan… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder with pathological
features including death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and intraneuronal …

Selective LRRK2 kinase inhibition reduces phosphorylation of endogenous Rab10 and Rab12 in human peripheral mononuclear blood cells

K Thirstrup, JC Dächsel, FS Oppermann… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Genetic variation in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene is associated with risk of
familial and sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD). To support clinical development of LRRK2 …

Neurons and glia interplay in α-synucleinopathies

P Mavroeidi, M Xilouri - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accumulation of the neuronal presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein within proteinaceous
inclusions represents the key histophathological hallmark of a spectrum of …