Identification of a highly neurotoxic {alpha}-synuclein species inducing mitochondrial damage and mitophagy in Parkinson’s disease [Neuroscience]

Exposure of cultured primary neurons to preformed α-synuclein fibrils (PFFs) leads to the recruitment of endogenous α-synuclein and its templated conversion into fibrillar phosphorylated α-synuclein (pα-synF) aggregates resembling those involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis. Pα-synF was described previously as inclusions morphologically similar to Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in...

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