Impaired prosaposin lysosomal trafficking in frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to progranulin mutations

Mutations in the granulin gene are associated with frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTLD) and a lysosomal storage disease. The authors show that reduced progranulin levels leads to impaired neuronal uptake and lysosomal delivery of prosaposin, and that decreased prosaposin expression in mice leads to F...

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Main Authors: Xiaolai Zhou, Lirong Sun, Oliver Bracko, Ji Whae Choi, Yan Jia, Alissa L. Nana, Owen Adam Brady, Jean C. Cruz Hernandez, Nozomi Nishimura, William W. Seeley, Fenghua Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15277