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ReviewJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2013

A possible pathophysiological role of tyrosine hydroxylase in Parkinson's disease suggested by postmortem brain biochemistry: a contribution for the special 70th birthday symposium in honor of Prof. Peter Riederer.

Akira Nakashima, Akira Ota, Yoko S Kaneko, Keiji Mori, Hiroshi Nagasaki, Toshiharu Nagatsu

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Review in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Human tyrosine hydroxylase in Parkinson's disease and in related disorders.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2019
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  12. Bioactive constituents from cinnamon, hemp seed andJournal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2018
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  18. The beneficial role of thiamine in Parkinson disease.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2013
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Akira NakashimaDepartment of Physiology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Akira Ota
Yoko S Kaneko
Keiji Mori
Hiroshi Nagasaki
Toshiharu Nagatsu
Fujita Health University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postmortem brain biochemistry has revealed that the main symptom of movement disorder in Parkinson's disease (PD) is caused by a deficiency in dopamine (DA) at the nerve terminals of degenerating nigro-striatal DA neurons in the striatum. Since tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) is the rate-limiting enzyme for the biosynthesis of DA, TH may play an important role in the disease process of PD. DA regulated by TH activity is thought to interact with α-synuclein protein, which results in intracellular aggregates called Lewy bodies and causes apoptotic cell death during the aging process. Human TH has several isoforms produced by alternative mRNA splicing, which may affect activation by phosphorylation of serine residues in the N-terminus of TH. The activity and protein level of TH are decreased to cause DA deficiency in the striatum in PD. However, the homo-specific activity (activity/enzyme protein) of TH is increased. This increase in TH homo-specific activity suggests activation by increased phosphorylation at the N-terminus of the TH protein for a compensatory increase in DA synthesis. We recently found that phosphorylation of the N-terminal portion of TH triggers proteasomal degradation of the enzyme to increase TH turnover. We propose a hypothesis that this compensatory activation of TH by phosphorylation in the remaining DA neurons may contribute to a further decrease in TH protein and activity in DA neurons in PD, causing a vicious circle of decreasing TH activity, protein level and DA contents. Furthermore, increased TH homo-specific activity leading to an increase in DA may cause toxic reactive oxygen species in the neurons to promote neurodegeneration.

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BrainDopaminergic NeuronsHumansParkinson DiseasePostmortem ChangesTyrosine 3-MonooxygenaseTyrosine 3-Monooxygenase

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