Molecular and Neurochemical Mechanisms in PD Pathogenesis

Mutation in the α-Synuclein Gene Identified in Families with Parkinson's Disease

Mihael H. Polymeropoulos, Christian Lavedan, Elisabeth Leroy et al. · Science · 1997 · 8.2K citations

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α-Synuclein in filamentous inclusions of Lewy bodies from Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

Maria Grazia Spillantini, R. Anthony Crowther, Ross Jakes et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 3.2K citations

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The new mutation, E46K, of α‐synuclein causes parkinson and Lewy body dementia

J.J. Zarranz, Juan Carlos Gómez‐Esteban, Elena Lezcano et al. · Annals of Neurology · 2003 · 2.7K citations

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Impaired Degradation of Mutant α-Synuclein by Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy

Ana María Cuervo, Leonidas Stefanis, Ross A. Fredenburg et al. · Science · 2004 · 2K citations

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Acceleration of oligomerization, not fibrillization, is a shared property of both α-synuclein mutations linked to early-onset Parkinson's disease: Implications for pathogenesis and therapy

Kelly A. Conway, Seung‐Jae Lee, Jean‐Christophe Rochet et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 1.5K citations

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