The Parkinson’s disease risk gene cathepsin B promotes fibrillar alpha-synuclein clearance, lysosomal function and glucocerebrosidase activity in dopaminergic neurons

Abstract Background Variants in the CTSB gene encoding the lysosomal hydrolase cathepsin B (catB) are associated with increased risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, neither the specific CTSB variants driving these associations nor the functional pathways that link catB to PD pathogenesis have...

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Published in:	Molecular Neurodegeneration
Main Authors:	Jace Jones-Tabah, Kathy He, Nathan Karpilovsky, Konstantin Senkevich, Ghislaine Deyab, Isabella Pietrantonio, Thomas Goiran, Yuting Cousineau, Daria Nikanorova, Taylor Goldsmith, Esther del Cid Pellitero, Carol X.-Q. Chen, Wen Luo, Zhipeng You, Narges Abdian, Jamil Ahmad, Jennifer A. Ruskey, Farnaz Asayesh, Dan Spiegelman, Stanley Fahn, Cheryl Waters, Oury Monchi, Yves Dauvilliers, Nicolas Dupré, Irina Miliukhina, Alla Timofeeva, Anton Emelyanov, Sofya Pchelina, Lior Greenbaum, Sharon Hassin-Baer, Roy N. Alcalay, Austen Milnerwood, Thomas M. Durcan, Ziv Gan-Or, Edward A. Fon
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2024-11-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13024-024-00779-9