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Deficiency of ATP13A2 leads to lysosomal dysfunction, α-synuclein accumulation, and neurotoxicity.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 21 Mar 2012
Usenovic Marija, Tresse Emilie, Mazzulli Joseph R, Taylor J Paul, Krainc Dimitri
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The autophagy-lysosomal pathway plays an important role in the clearance of long-lived proteins and dysfunctional organelles. Lysosomal dysfunction has been implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's disease and related synucleinopathies that are characterized by accumulations of α-synuclein in Lewy bodies. Recent identification of mutations in genes linked to lysosomal function and...
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