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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2025

Parkinson disease is a fatty acidopathy.

Saranna Fanning, Dennis Selkoe

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  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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  4. Elevation of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase and Monounsaturated Fatty Acids in Parkinson's Disease Serum.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026
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  5. The Emerging Parkinson's Disease Oxylipin-Ome.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Saranna Fanning *Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. sfanning2@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4638-1331
Dennis Selkoe *Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. dselkoe@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8846-9767

Funding

Mechanistic Dissection of Lipase (LIPE) Regulation of Fatty Acid Homeostasis as a Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia Therapeutic StrategyR01NS133243 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Saranna Fanning · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
Biology of Native Alpha-Synuclein Tetramers in Parkinson's DiseaseR01NS083845 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SELKOE, DENNIS J · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083845NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS133243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

On the basis of extensive mechanistic research over three decades, Parkinson disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies have been proposed to be combined proteinopathies and lipidopathies. Evidence strongly supports a physiological and pathogenic interplay between the disease-associated protein α-synuclein and lipids, with a demonstrable role for lipids in modulating PD phenotypes in the brain. Here, we refine this hypothesis by proposing PD to be a disease specifically involving metabolic dysregulation of fatty acids, a 'fatty acidopathy'. We review extensive findings from many laboratories supporting the perspective that PD centres on fatty acid dyshomeostasis - alterations in the fatty acid-ome - as the critical feature of lipid aberration in PD and other α-synucleinopathies. This construct places transient α-synuclein binding to fatty acid side chains of cytoplasmic vesicles as a principal contributor to the biology of PD-relevant α-synuclein-membrane interactions. We propose that α-synuclein-fatty acid interactions in the fatty acid-rich brain are interdependent determinants of the gradual progression from neuronal health to PD, with attendant therapeutic implications.

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alpha-SynucleinBrainFatty AcidsParkinson DiseaseAnimalsHumansalpha-SynucleinFatty Acids

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PMID41034503
PMCPMC13092291

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