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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2019

Lipids at the Crossroad of α-Synuclein Function and Dysfunction: Biological and Pathological Implications.

Natalia P Alza, Pablo A Iglesias González, Melisa A Conde, Romina M Uranga, Gabriela A Salvador

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Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cellular and systemic modifiers of alpha-synuclein proteostasis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  7. Lipid-packing defects are sufficient to modulate membrane insertion and the bound state of α-synuclein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Parkinson disease is a fatty acidopathy.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025
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  11. Physics of Protein Aggregation in Normal and Accelerated Brain Aging.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  14. Elucidation of cytotoxicity of α-Synuclein fibrils on immune cells.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Proteins and proteomics · 2025
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  15. Conformational Selection of α-Synuclein Tetramers at Biological Interfaces.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
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  16. Elucidation of molecular mechanisms by which amyloid βBiochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids · 2024
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  20. From Synaptic Physiology to Synaptic Pathology: The Enigma of α-Synuclein.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Natalia P AlzaInstituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Pablo A Iglesias GonzálezInstituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Melisa A CondeInstituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Romina M UrangaInstituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Gabriela A SalvadorInstituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Universidad Nacional del Sur · AR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since its discovery, the study of the biological role of α-synuclein and its pathological implications has been the subject of increasing interest. The propensity to adopt different conformational states governing its aggregation and fibrillation makes this small 14-kDa cytosolic protein one of the main etiologic factors associated with degenerative disorders known as synucleinopathies. The structure, function, and toxicity of α-synuclein and the possibility of different therapeutic approaches to target the protein have been extensively investigated and reviewed. One intriguing characteristic of α-synuclein is the different ways in which it interacts with lipids. Though in-depth studies have been carried out in this field, the information they have produced is puzzling and the precise role of lipids in α-synuclein biology and pathology and

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lipid metabolismlipidslipid signal transductionmembrane lipidsα–synuclein

Identifiers

PMID31118888
PMCPMC6504812
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