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AUTOPHAGY
卷 4, 期 7, 页码 917-919出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/auto.6685
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alpha synuclein; autophagy; macroautophagy; neurons; Parkinson's disease
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资金
- NIH [R21 NS055693]
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 select familial cases and alpha-synuclein protein accumulation occurs in sporadic PD. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanisms that control alpha-synuclein levels is critical for PD pathogenesis and potential therapeutics. The subject of alpha-synuclein degradation has been controversial. Previous work shows that, in an assay with isolated liver lysosomes, purified wild type alpha-synuclein is degraded by the process of chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA). Whether this actually occurs in a cellular context has been unclear. In our most recent work, we find that wild type alpha-synuclein, but not the closely related protein alpha-synuclein, is indeed degraded by CMA in neuronal cells, including primary postnatal ventral midbrain neurons. Macroautophagy, but not the proteasome, also contributes to alpha-synuclein degradation. Therefore, two separate lysosomal pathways, CMA and macroautophagy, degrade wild type alpha-synuclein in neuronal cells. It is hypothesized that impairment of either of these two pathways, or of more general lysosomad function, may be an initiating factor in alpha-synuclein accumulation and sporadic PD pathogenesis.
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