Article
Impairment of chaperone-mediated autophagy induces dopaminergic neurodegeneration in rats.
Autophagy - 1 Nov 2016
Xilouri Maria, Brekk Oeystein Roed, Polissidis Alexia, Chrysanthou-Piterou Margarita, Kloukina Ismini, Stefanis Leonidas
Abstract excerpt
Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) involves the selective lysosomal degradation of cytosolic proteins such as SNCA (synuclein α), a protein strongly implicated in Parkinson disease (PD) pathogenesis. However, the physiological role of CMA and the consequences of CMA failure in the living brain remain elusive. Here we show that CMA inhibition in the adult rat substantia nigra via adeno-associated virus-mediated...
Topics
- Animals
- Autophagy
- Behavior, Animal
- Dependovirus
- Dopaminergic Neurons
- Down-Regulation
- Female
- Gene Silencing
- Genetic Vectors
- Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2
- Molecular Chaperones
