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Synphilin-1 is present in Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease
K Wakabayashi1, S Engelender, M Yoshimoto
1Brain Disease Research Center, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan.
Annals of Neurology
|April 13, 2000
Abstract:
Alpha-synuclein is believed to play an important role in Parkinson's disease (PD). Mutations in the alpha-synuclein gene are responsible for familial forms of PD and alpha-synuclein protein is a major component of Lewy bodies in patients with sporadic PD. Synphilin-1 is a novel protein that we have previously found to associate in vivo with alpha-synuclein. We now show that synphilin-1 is present in Lewy bodies of patients with PD. Our data suggest that synphilin-1 could play a role in Lewy body formation and the pathogenesis of PD.