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ReviewActa neuropathologica2021

Vesicle trafficking and lipid metabolism in synucleinopathy.

Saranna Fanning, Dennis Selkoe, Ulf Dettmer

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Review in Acta neuropathologica, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  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. The Emerging Parkinson's Disease Oxylipin-Ome.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  9. Parkinson disease is a fatty acidopathy.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025
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  14. Energy metabolism in health and diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Saranna FanningDepartment of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. sfanning2@bwh.harvard.edu.
Dennis SelkoeDepartment of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. dselkoe@bwh.harvard.edu.
Ulf DettmerDepartment of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. udettmer@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6676-0107
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Biology of Native Alpha-Synuclein Tetramers in Parkinson's DiseaseRF1NS083845 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SELKOE, DENNIS J · 2020 to 2020
$2.9M
Stabilizing native α-synuclein homeostasis to prevent insoluble α-synuclein aggregatesR01NS099328 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DETTMER, ULF · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
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 NS099328NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS083845
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neuronal protein α-synuclein (αS) is central to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and other progressive brain diseases such as Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy. These diseases, collectively referred to as 'synucleinopathies', have long been considered purely proteinopathies: diseases characterized by the misfolding of a protein into small and large aggregates mainly consisting of that protein (in this case: α-synuclein). However, recent morphological insights into Lewy bodies, the hallmark neuropathology of human synucleinopathies, suggests these lesions are also rich in vesicles and other membranous organelles. Moreover, αS physiology and pathology are both strongly associated with various aspects of intracellular vesicle trafficking and lipid biology. αS physiologically binds to synaptic and other small vesicles, and several functions of αS in regulating vesicle biology have been proposed. Familial PD-linked αS excess and missense mutations have been shown to impair vesicle trafficking and alter lipid homeostasis. On the other hand, vesicle trafficking and lipid-related genes have emerged as Parkinson's risk factors, suggesting a bidirectional relationship. The answer to the question "Does abnormal αS accumulation cause impaired vesicle trafficking and lipid dyshomeostasis or is αS aggregation the consequence of such impairments?" may be "Both". Here, we review current knowledge of the αS-lipid and αS-vesicle trafficking interplay, with a special focus on Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinAnimalsCytoplasmic VesiclesHumansLipid MetabolismProtein Aggregation, PathologicalProtein TransportSynucleinopathiesalpha-SynucleinAlpha-synucleinLipidsParkinson’s diseaseProtein aggregationSynucleinopathyVesicle trafficking

Identifiers

PMID32607605
PMCPMC7772270
OpenAlexW3039696582

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