Living in α-syn: Tackling aggregates in Parkinson's disease.

Neuron

Departments of Neurology, and Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address:

Published: February 2022

How do protein aggregates contribute to neurodegenerative disorders, and can they be therapeutically targeted? In this issue of Neuron, Stojkovska et al. (2022) show that aggregated α-synuclein disrupts ER and lysosomal function in Parkinson's disease patient-derived neurons and that combined enhancement of multiple arms of the proteostasis network improves these defects.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.01.016DOI Listing

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