Mechanisms of protein toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases

CG Chung, H Lee, SB Lee - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Protein toxicity can be defined as all the pathological changes that ensue from
accumulation, mis-localization, and/or multimerization of disease-specific proteins. Most …

Behavioral tests in neurotoxin-induced animal models of Parkinson's disease

EM Prasad, SY Hung - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, neurodegenerative diseases are a major cause of disability around the world.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second-leading cause of neurodegenerative disorder after …

Pathogenic alpha-synuclein aggregates preferentially bind to mitochondria and affect cellular respiration

X Wang, K Becker, N Levine, M Zhang… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
Misfolded alpha-synuclein (αSyn) is a major constituent of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites,
which are pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD). The contribution of αSyn to …

Cytosolic aggregation of mitochondrial proteins disrupts cellular homeostasis by stimulating the aggregation of other proteins

U Nowicka, P Chroscicki, K Stroobants, M Sladowska… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Mitochondria are organelles with their own genomes, but they rely on the import of nuclear-
encoded proteins that are translated by cytosolic ribosomes. Therefore, it is important to …

Alpha-synuclein delays mitophagy and targeting Miro rescues neuron loss in Parkinson's models

A Shaltouki, CH Hsieh, MJ Kim, X Wang - Acta neuropathologica, 2018 - Springer
Alpha-synuclein is a component of Lewy bodies, the pathological hallmark of Parkinson's
disease (PD), and is also mutated in familial PD. Here, by extensively analyzing PD patient …

Transcriptional mutagenesis of α-synuclein caused by DNA oxidation in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis

S Basu, M Song, L Adams, I Jeong, G Je… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
Oxidative stress plays an essential role in the development of Parkinson's disease (PD). 8-
oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanine (8-oxodG, oxidized guanine) is the most abundant oxidative stress …

How the mitoprotein-induced stress response safeguards the cytosol: a unified view

F Boos, J Labbadia, JM Herrmann - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Mitochondrial and cytosolic proteostasis are of central relevance for cellular stress
resistance and organismal health. Recently, a number of individual cellular programs were …

Mitophagy, a form of selective autophagy, plays an essential role in mitochondrial dynamics of parkinson's disease

XL Wang, ST Feng, YT Wang, YH Yuan, ZP Li… - Cellular and molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by the progressive
loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and affects millions of people …

Alpha-synuclein suppresses mitochondrial protease ClpP to trigger mitochondrial oxidative damage and neurotoxicity

D Hu, X Sun, X Liao, X Zhang, S Zarabi… - Acta …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Both α-Synuclein (αSyn) accumulation and mitochondrial dysfunction have been
implicated in the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD). Although studies suggest that αSyn …

The interplay between neuroinflammatory pathways and Parkinson's disease

P Eser, E Kocabicak, A Bekar, Y Temel - Experimental Neurology, 2024 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder predominantly affecting
elderly, is marked by the gradual degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway …