Emptying the stores: lysosomal diseases and therapeutic strategies

FM Platt - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs)—designated as' orphan'diseases—are inborn errors of
metabolism caused by defects in genes that encode proteins involved in various aspects of …

Less is more: substrate reduction therapy for lysosomal storage disorders

MF Coutinho, JI Santos, S Alves - International journal of molecular …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) are a group of rare, life-threatening genetic disorders,
usually caused by a dysfunction in one of the many enzymes responsible for intralysosomal …

Neuropathology in mouse models of mucopolysaccharidosis type I, IIIA and IIIB

FL Wilkinson, RJ Holley, KJ Langford-Smith… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Mucopolysaccharide diseases (MPS) are caused by deficiency of glycosaminoglycan (GAG)
degrading enzymes, leading to GAG accumulation. Neurodegenerative MPS diseases …

CNS-targeting therapies for lysosomal storage diseases: current advances and challenges

MJ Edelmann, GHB Maegawa - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During the past decades, several therapeutic approaches have been developed and made
rapidly available for many patients afflicted with lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), inborn …

Autophagy-dependent mechanism of genistein-mediated elimination of behavioral and biochemical defects in the rat model of sporadic Alzheimer's disease

K Pierzynowska, M Podlacha, L Gaffke, I Majkutewicz… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease is one of severe neurological diseases for which no effective treatment
is currently available. The use of genistein (5, 7-dihydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-1 …

Sanfilippo syndrome: causes, consequences, and treatments

AO Fedele - The application of clinical genetics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Sanfilippo syndrome, or mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type III, refers to one of five
autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorders (MPS IIIA to MPS IIIE) …

The phytoestrogen genistein modulates lysosomal metabolism and transcription factor EB (TFEB) activation

M Moskot, S Montefusco… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Genistein (5, 7-dihydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one) has been
previously proposed as a potential drug for use in substrate reduction therapy for …

Genistein improves neuropathology and corrects behaviour in a mouse model of neurodegenerative metabolic disease

M Malinowska, FL Wilkinson, KJ Langford-Smith… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Neurodegenerative metabolic disorders such as mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB
(MPSIIIB or Sanfilippo disease) accumulate undegraded substrates in the brain and are …

Trehalose reduces retinal degeneration, neuroinflammation and storage burden caused by a lysosomal hydrolase deficiency

P Lotfi, DY Tse, A Di Ronza, ML Seymour, G Martano… - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The accumulation of undegraded molecular material leads to progressive
neurodegeneration in a number of lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) that are caused by …

Autophagy stimulation as a promising approach in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

K Pierzynowska, L Gaffke, Z Cyske, M Puchalski… - Metabolic Brain …, 2018 - Springer
Autophagy is a process of degradation of macromolecules in the cytoplasm, particularly
proteins of a long half-life, as well as whole organelles, in eukaryotic cells. Lysosomes play …