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ArticleNature communications2021

Dysregulation of mitochondria-lysosome contacts by GBA1 dysfunction in dopaminergic neuronal models of Parkinson's disease.

Soojin Kim, Yvette C Wong, Fanding Gao, Dimitri Krainc

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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123citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Soojin KimDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6519-1651
Yvette C WongDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3188-4342
Fanding GaoDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Dimitri KraincDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. dkrainc@nm.org.ORCID 0000-0002-4716-1886
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
The Role of Lysosomal Glucocerebrosidase in SynucleinopathiesR01NS076054 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KRAINC, DIMITRI · 2011 to 2020
$4.1M
The role of ATP13A2/PARK9 in secretion of exosomes and alpha synucleinR37NS096241 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KRAINC, DIMITRI · 2016 to 2020
$3.1M
Molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondria-lysosome membrane contact sites in neuronal function and neurodegenerationR00NS109252 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WONG, YVETTE · 2020 to 2023
$883k
Molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondria-lysosome membrane contact sites in neuronal function and neurodegenerationK99NS109252 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WONG, YVETTE · 2018 to 2019
$179k
NRSA Postdoctoral F32 Misregulation of ER membrane dynamics by alpha-synuclein in Parkinsons diseaseF32NS101778 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WONG, YVETTE · 2017 to 2018
$76k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS101778NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS109252NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS109252NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS076054NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS096241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria-lysosome contacts are recently identified sites for mediating crosstalk between both organelles, but their role in normal and diseased human neurons remains unknown. In this study, we demonstrate that mitochondria-lysosome contacts can dynamically form in the soma, axons, and dendrites of human neurons, allowing for their bidirectional crosstalk. Parkinson's disease patient derived neurons harboring mutant GBA1 exhibited prolonged mitochondria-lysosome contacts due to defective modulation of the untethering protein TBC1D15, which mediates Rab7 GTP hydrolysis for contact untethering. This dysregulation was due to decreased GBA1 (β-glucocerebrosidase (GCase)) lysosomal enzyme activity in patient derived neurons, and could be rescued by increasing enzyme activity with a GCase modulator. These defects resulted in disrupted mitochondrial distribution and function, and could be further rescued by TBC1D15 in Parkinson's patient derived GBA1-linked neurons. Together, our work demonstrates a potential role of mitochondria-lysosome contacts as an upstream regulator of mitochondrial function and dynamics in midbrain dopaminergic neurons in GBA1-linked Parkinson's disease.

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MutationCells, CulturedDopaminergic NeuronsGlucosylceramidaseGTPase-Activating ProteinsHumansHydrolysisLysosomesMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMitochondriaParkinson Diseaserab7 GTP-Binding Proteinsrab GTP-Binding ProteinsTime-Lapse ImagingGBA protein, humanGlucosylceramidaseGTPase-Activating Proteinsrab7 GTP-Binding Proteinsrab7 GTP-binding proteins, humanrab GTP-Binding ProteinsTBC1D15 protein, human

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PMID33753743
PMCPMC7985376
OpenAlexW3138386515

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