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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2013

α-Synuclein and mitochondria: partners in crime?

Ken Nakamura

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
70citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Genetic and Non-Genetic Parkinson's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. Alpha synuclein modulates mitochondrial CaNPJ Parkinson's disease · 2023
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  16. Alpha Synuclein Modulates Mitochondrial CabioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  17. Analysis of α-syn andFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ken NakamuraGladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. ken.nakamura@ucsf.edu
Gladstone Institutes · US

Funding

Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Alzheimer's DiseaseP30NS069496 · NINDS · J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES · PI MUCKE, LENNART · 2009 to 2010
$1.7M
Regulation of mitochondrial morphology by alpha-synucleinK08NS062954 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI NAKAMURA, KEN · 2009 to 2013
$878k
NINDS NIH HHS 1KO8NS062954-01A1NINDS NIH HHS K08 NS062954NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS069496NINDS NIH HHS P30NS069496
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased α-synuclein levels and mutations in mitochondria-associated proteins both cause familial Parkinson's disease (PD), and synuclein and mitochondria also play central, but poorly understood, roles in the pathogenesis of idiopathic PD. A fraction of synuclein interacts with mitochondria, and synuclein can produce mitochondrial fragmentation and impair mitochondrial complex I activity. However, the consequences of these mitochondrial changes for bioenergetic and other mitochondrial functions remain poorly defined, as does the role of synuclein-mitochondria interactions in the normal and pathologic effects of synuclein. Understanding the functional consequences of synuclein's interactions with mitochondria is likely to provide important insights into disease pathophysiology, and may also reveal therapeutic strategies.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinAnimalsElectron Transport Complex IHumansMitochondriaParkinson Diseasealpha-SynucleinElectron Transport Complex I

Identifiers

PMID23512373
PMCPMC3701775
OpenAlexW1965030811

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