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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2024

Gene therapy for Lafora disease in the Epm2a

Luis Zafra-Puerta, Nerea Iglesias-Cabeza, Daniel F Burgos, Miriam Sciaccaluga, Juan González-Fernández, Laura Bellingacci, Jacopo Canonichesi, Gema Sánchez-Martín, Cinzia Costa, Marina P Sánchez and 1 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Lafora disease gene therapy: EPM2A but not EPM2B overexpression results in Lafora body formation.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  3. Adeno-Associated Virus-Based Gene Therapy for Lafora Disease inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. State-of-the-art gene therapy in epilepsy.Current opinion in neurology · 2025
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  9. Neurological glycogen storage diseases and emerging therapeutics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Luis Zafra-PuertaLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain; PhD Program in Neuroscience, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid-Cajal Institute, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Fondazione Malattie Rare Mauro Baschirotto BIRD Onlus, Longare (VI), Italy.
Nerea Iglesias-CabezaLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Daniel F BurgosLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain; PhD Program in Neuroscience, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid-Cajal Institute, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Miriam SciaccalugaSection of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy; Fondazione Malattie Rare Mauro Baschirotto BIRD Onlus, Longare (VI), Italy.
Juan González-FernándezLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Departament of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy.
Laura BellingacciSection of Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy.
Jacopo CanonichesiSection of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy.
Gema Sánchez-MartínLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Cinzia CostaSection of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, 06132 Perugia, Italy.
Marina P SánchezLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: msanchezg@fjd.es.
José M SerratosaLaboratory of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: joseserratosa@me.com.

Funding

Suppressing glycogen storage with small molecule inhibitors as a therapeutic approach to Lafora DiseaseP01NS097197 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI GAO, TIANYAN · 2016 to 2021
$9.0M
NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS097197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lafora disease is a rare and fatal form of progressive myoclonic epilepsy typically occurring early in adolescence. The disease results from mutations in the EPM2A gene, encoding laforin, or the EPM2B gene, encoding malin. Laforin and malin work together in a complex to control glycogen synthesis and prevent the toxicity produced by misfolded proteins via the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Disruptions in either protein cause alterations in this complex, leading to the formation of Lafora bodies containing abnormal, insoluble, and hyperphosphorylated forms of glycogen. We used the Epm2a

Indexed as

DependovirusDisease Models, AnimalGenetic TherapyLafora DiseaseMice, KnockoutProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorAnimalsCarrier ProteinsElectroencephalographyGenetic VectorsHumansMiceProteomicsCarrier ProteinsEPM2A protein, humanEpm2a protein, mouseProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorEpm2a(−/−) knockout mousegene therapylaforinpolyglucosansprogressive myoclonic epilepsyrAAV

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PMID38796707
PMCPMC11286821

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