Autophagy in Gaucher disease due to saposin C deficiency.

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Gaucher disease, due to a deficit of glucosylceramidase or, rarely, of its activator saposin C, is characterized by accumulation of glucosylceramide in the lysosomes of monocyte/macrophage lineage. In our study we demonstrate that saposin C deficiency due to mutations involving a cysteine residue results in increased autophagy. Autophagy was monitored by LC3 analysis and confirmed by electron microscopy; we...

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