Opportunities and challenges of alpha-synuclein as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies

P Magalhães, HA Lashuel - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common progressive
neurodegenerative disease, develops and progresses for 10–15 years before the clinical …

Alpha synuclein post translational modifications: potential targets for Parkinson's disease therapy?

V Brembati, G Faustini, F Longhena… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder with motor
symptoms. The neuropathological alterations characterizing the brain of patients with PD …

Revisiting the specificity and ability of phospho-S129 antibodies to capture alpha-synuclein biochemical and pathological diversity

HA Lashuel, AL Mahul-Mellier, S Novello… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies against phosphorylated alpha-synuclein (aSyn) at S129 have emerged as the
primary tools to investigate, monitor, and quantify aSyn pathology in the brain and peripheral …

Central and peripheral α‐synuclein in Parkinson disease detected by seed amplification assay

LM Chahine, TG Beach, CH Adler… - Annals of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Detection of α‐synuclein aggregates by seed amplification is a promising
Parkinson disease biomarker assay. Understanding intraindividual relationships of α …

[HTML][HTML] Early detection of subjective cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease: Analytical validation of a newly developed pT217‐tau assay

HB Taha - Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I read with interest the insightful article by Gonzalez-Ortiz et al. 1 regarding the development
of a new assay for quantification of phosphorylated threonine 217 tau (pT217-tau) in the …

Biomarker bust: meta-analyses reveal unreliability of neuronal extracellular vesicles for diagnosing parkinsonian disorders

HB Taha - Neural Regeneration Research, 2025 - journals.lww.com
A range of neurodegenerative disorders, collectively termed parkinsonian disorders, present
with a complex array of both motor and non-motor symptoms. Included in this group are …

The potential of phosphorylated α‐synuclein as a biomarker for the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple system atrophy

T Abdul‐Rahman, RE Herrera‐Calderón… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative
disorder characterized by the presence of glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs) containing …

Neighbouring modifications interfere with the detection of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein at Serine 129: Revisiting the specificity of pS129 antibodies

HA Lashuel, AL Mahul-Mellier, S Novello, RN Hegde… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) within Lewy bodies, Lewy neurites, and other pathological hallmarks
of Parkinson's disease and synucleinopathies have consistently been shown to accumulate …

[HTML][HTML] The Application of Analytical Techniques to Alpha-Synuclein in Parkinson's Disease

OA Olahanmi - American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - scirp.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia, as well as non-motor symptoms …

Dissecting the differential role of C-terminal truncations in the regulation of aSyn pathology formation and the biogenesis of Lewy bodies

AL Mahul-Mellier, MF Altay, N Maharjan, N Ait-Bouziad… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) post-translational modifications (PTMs), particularly phosphorylation
at serine 129 and C-terminal truncations, are highly enriched in Lewy bodies (LBs), Lewy …