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CSPα knockout causes neurodegeneration by impairing SNAP-25 function.
The EMBO journal - 15 Feb 2012
Sharma Manu, Burré Jacqueline, Bronk Peter, Zhang Yingsha, Xu Wei, Südhof Thomas C
Abstract excerpt
At a synapse, the synaptic vesicle protein cysteine-string protein-α (CSPα) functions as a co-chaperone for the SNARE protein SNAP-25. Knockout (KO) of CSPα causes fulminant neurodegeneration that is rescued by α-synuclein overexpression. The CSPα KO decreases SNAP-25 levels and impairs SNARE-complex assembly; only the latter but not the former is reversed by α-synuclein. Thus, the question arises whether the...
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