Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Intracellular repair of oxidation-damaged α-synuclein fails to target C-terminal modification sites

  • Andres Binolfi,
  • Antonio Limatola,
  • Silvia Verzini,
  • Jonas Kosten,
  • Francois-Xavier Theillet,
  • Honor May Rose,
  • Beata Bekei,
  • Marchel Stuiver,
  • Marleen van Rossum,
  • Philipp Selenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10251
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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α-synuclein is a protein linked to the occurrence of Parkinson's disease. Here, the authors use time-resolved in-cell NMR spectroscopy to study the repair of methionine-oxidized α-synuclein by endogenous cellular enzymes.