Hideaki Matsui, Shinji Ito, Hideki Matsui, Junko Ito, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Mika Hirose, Tomoyuki Yamanaka, Akihide Koyama, Taisuke Kato, Maiko Tanaka, Norihito Uemura, Noriko Matsui, Sachiko Hirokawa, Maki Yoshihama, Aki Shimozawa, Shin-Ichiro Kubo, Kenji Iwasaki, Masato Hasegawa, Ryosuke Takahashi, Keisuke Hirai, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera
α-Synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies, and this accumulation is a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). Previous studies have indicated a causal role of α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of PD. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of α-synuclein toxicity remain elusive. Here, we describe a novel phosphorylation site of α-synuclein at T64 and the detailed characteristics of this post-translational modification. T64 phosphorylation was enhanced in both PD models and human PD brains...
June 6, 2023: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America