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Impaired degradation of mutant alpha-synuclein by chaperone-mediated autophagy.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 27 Aug 2004
Cuervo Ana Maria, Stefanis Leonidas, Fredenburg Ross, Lansbury Peter T, Sulzer David
Abstract excerpt
Aberrant alpha-synuclein degradation is implicated in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis because the protein accumulates in the Lewy inclusion bodies associated with the disease. Little is known, however, about the pathways by which wild-type alpha-synuclein is normally degraded. We found that wild-type alpha-synuclein was selectively translocated into lysosomes for degradation by the chaperone-mediated autophagy...
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