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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Physiological C-terminal truncation of α-synuclein potentiates the prion-like formation of pathological inclusions.

Zachary A Sorrentino, Niran Vijayaraghavan, Kimberly-Marie Gorion, Cara J Riffe, Kevin H Strang, Jason Caldwell, Benoit I Giasson

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zachary A SorrentinoFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Niran VijayaraghavanFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Kimberly-Marie GorionFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Cara J RiffeFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Kevin H StrangFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Jason CaldwellFrom the Department of Neuroscience.
Benoit I GiassonFrom the Department of Neuroscience, bgiasson@ufl.edu.
Society for Neuroscience · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and NeurorestorationT32NS082168 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Melissa Jo Armstrong, David E Vaillancourt · 2015 to 2026
$2.8M
Mechanisms of Aggregated Alpha-Synuclein Induction and ProgressionR01NS089622 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI GIASSON, BENOIT I · 2014 to 2018
$1.6M
Pathological spread and outcomes of alpha-synuclein mutantsR21NS102685 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI GIASSON, BENOIT I · 2017 to 2018
$419k
NINDS NIH HHS L30 NS089022NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089622NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS102685NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS082168
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

α-Synuclein (αsyn) aggregates into toxic fibrils in multiple neurodegenerative diseases where these fibrils form characteristic pathological inclusions such as Lewy bodies (LBs). The mechanisms initiating αsyn aggregation into fibrils are unclear, but ubiquitous post-translational modifications of αsyn present in LBs may play a role. Specific C-terminally (C)-truncated forms of αsyn are present within human pathological inclusions and form under physiological conditions likely in lysosome-associated pathways, but the roles for these C-truncated forms of αsyn in inclusion formation and disease are not well understood. Herein, we characterized the

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alpha-SynucleinAmyloidAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalHEK293 CellsHumansMice, Inbred BALB CPeptide FragmentsProtein Aggregation, PathologicalProtein MultimerizationProteolysisalpha-SynucleinAmyloidAntibodies, MonoclonalPeptide FragmentsSNCA protein, humanSnca protein, mouseamyloidelectron microscopy (EM)fibrilinclusion formationLewy bodyneurodegenerationParkinson's diseasepriontruncationα-synuclein

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PMID30327435
PMCPMC6295729
OpenAlexW2897110091

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