alpha-synuclein degradation by autophagic pathways: a potential key to Parkinson's disease pathogenesis

Autophagy
Maria XilouriLeonidas Stefanis

Abstract

The neuronal protein alpha-synuclein is thought to be central in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Excessive wild type alpha-synuclein levels can lead to PD in select familial cases and alpha-synuclein protein accumulation occurs in sporadic PD. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanisms that control alpha-synuclein levels is critical for PD pathogenesis and potential therapeutics. The subject of alpha-synuclein degradation has been controversial. Previous work shows that, in an assay with isolated liver lysosomes, purified wild type alpha-synuclein is degraded by the process of chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA). Whether this actually occurs in a cellular context has been unclear. In our most recent work, we find that wild type alpha-synuclein, but not the closely related protein beta-synuclein, is indeed degraded by CMA in neuronal cells, including primary postnatal ventral midbrain neurons. Macroautophagy, but not the proteasome, also contributes to alpha-synuclein degradation. Therefore, two separate lysosomal pathways, CMA and macroautophagy, degrade wild type alpha-synuclein in neuronal cells. It is hypothesized that impairment of either of these two pathways, or of more general lysosomal function, may be an ini...Continue Reading

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