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Expression of Lewy body protein septin 4 in postmortem brain of Parkinson's disease and control subjects
24 Oct 2008
Abstract excerpt
In Parkinson's disease (PD) neuronal degeneration is associated with abnormal protein aggregation in various forms including Lewy bodies (LBs). A major component of LBs is alpha-synuclein; septin 4 (SEPT4), a polymerizing GTP-binding protein that serves as scaffold for diverse molecules has been found to colocalize with alpha-synuclein in LBs. The central role of SEPT4 in the etiopathogenesis of PD has been...
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