Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, United States of America.
PLoS Biol. 2021 Jul 20;19(7):e3001331. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001331. eCollection 2021 Jul.
In Parkinson disease (PD), Lewy bodies (LBs) form in the gut or nose and spread into the midbrain. A study in this issue indicates that the spread is due to lysosomes "infected" with prion-like alpha-synuclein (α-syn) transmitting from cell to cell via tunneling nanotubes (TNTs).
在帕金森病(PD)中,路易体(LB)形成于肠道或鼻腔,并扩散到中脑。本期的一项研究表明,这种扩散是由于溶酶体“感染”了朊病毒样的α-突触核蛋白(α-syn),通过隧道纳米管(TNTs)在细胞间传递。