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ArticleScientific reports2016

The Parkinson Disease gene SNCA: Evolutionary and structural insights with pathological implication.

Irum Javaid Siddiqui, Nashaiman Pervaiz, Amir Ali Abbasi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Irum Javaid SiddiquiNational Center for Bioinformatics, Program of Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Nashaiman PervaizNational Center for Bioinformatics, Program of Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Amir Ali AbbasiNational Center for Bioinformatics, Program of Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Quaid-i-Azam University · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After Alzheimer, Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Alpha synuclein (SNCA) is deemed as a major component of Lewy bodies, a neuropathological feature of PD. Five point mutations in SNCA have been reported so far, responsible for autosomal dominant PD. This study aims to decipher evolutionary and structural insights of SNCA by revealing its sequence and structural evolutionary patterns among sarcopterygians and its paralogous counterparts (SNCB and SNCG). Rate analysis detected strong purifying selection on entire synuclein family. Structural dynamics divulges that during the course of sarcopterygian evolutionary history, the region encompassed 32 to 58 of N-terminal domain of SNCA has acquired its critical functional significance through the epistatic influence of the lineage specific substitutions. In sum, these findings provide an evidence that the region from 32 to 58 of N-terminal lipid binding alpha helix domain of SNCA is the most critical region, not only from the evolutionary perspective but also for the stability and the proper conformation of the protein as well as crucial for the disease pathogenesis, harboring critical interaction sites.

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Genetic Predisposition to Diseasealpha-SynucleinCarrier ProteinsEvolution, MolecularGenetic Association StudiesGenotypeHumansMutationNerve Tissue ProteinsParkinson DiseasePhylogenyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProtein ConformationProtein DomainsProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsStructure-Activity Relationshipalpha-SynucleinCarrier ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsSNCAIP protein, humanSNCA protein, human

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PMID27080380
PMCPMC4832246
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