Impaired Autophagy in the Lipid-Storage Disorder Niemann-Pick Type C1 Disease

Autophagy dysfunction has been implicated in misfolded protein accumulation and cellular toxicity in several diseases. Whether alterations in autophagy also contribute to the pathology of lipid-storage disorders is not clear. Here, we show defective autophagy in Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1) disease...

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Main Authors: Sovan Sarkar, Bernadette Carroll, Yosef Buganim, Dorothea Maetzel, Alex H.M. Ng, John P. Cassady, Malkiel A. Cohen, Souvik Chakraborty, Haoyi Wang, Eric Spooner, Hidde Ploegh, Joerg Gsponer, Viktor I. Korolchuk, Rudolf Jaenisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-12-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124713006414