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The emerging role of autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Gaucher disease and Parkinson’s disease

Kinghorn, KJ; Asghari, AM; Castillo-Quan, JI; (2017) The emerging role of autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Gaucher disease and Parkinson’s disease. Neural Regeneration Research , 12 (3) pp. 380-384. 10.4103/1673-5374.202934. Green open access

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Abstract

Gaucher disease (GD), the commonest lysosomal storage disorder, results from the lack or functional deficiency of glucocerebrosidase (GCase) secondary to mutations in the GBA1 gene. There is an established association between GBA1 mutations and Parkinson’s disease (PD), and indeed GBA1 mutations are now considered to be the greatest genetic risk factor for PD. Impaired lysosomal-autophagic degradation of cellular proteins, including a-synuclein (a-syn), is implicated in the pathogenesis of PD, and there is increasing evidence for this also in GD and GBA1-PD. Indeed we have recently shown in a Drosophila model lacking neuronal GCase, that there are clear lysosomal-autophagic defects in association with synaptic loss and neurodegeneration. In addition, we demonstrated alterations in mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling and functional rescue of the lifespan, locomotor defects and hypersensitivity to oxidative stress on treatment of GCase-deficient flies with the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin. Moreover, a number of other recent studies have shown autophagy-lysosomal system (ALS) dysfunction, with specific defects in both chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), as well as macroautophagy, in GD and GBA1-PD model systems. Lastly we discuss the possible therapeutic benefits of inhibiting mTOR using drugs such as rapamycin to reverse the autophagy defects in GD and PD.

Type: Article
Title: The emerging role of autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Gaucher disease and Parkinson’s disease
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.202934
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.202934
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10033664
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