α-Synuclein fibril and synaptic vesicle interactions lead to vesicle destruction and increased lipid-associated fibril uptake into iPSC-derived neurons

Abstract Monomeric alpha-synuclein (aSyn) is a well characterised protein that importantly binds to lipids. aSyn monomers assemble into amyloid fibrils which are localised to lipids and organelles in insoluble structures found in Parkinson’s disease patient’s brains. Previous work to address patholo...

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Main Authors: Amberley D. Stephens, Ana Fernandez Villegas, Chyi Wei Chung, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Dorothea Pinotsi, Ioanna Mela, Edward Ward, Thomas M. McCoy, Robert Cubitt, Alexander F. Routh, Clemens F. Kaminski, Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04884-1