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α-Synuclein in gut endocrine cells and its implications for Parkinson’s disease
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with devastating clinical manifestations. In PD, neuronal death is associated with intracellular aggregates of the neuronal protein α-synuclein known as Lewy bodies. Although the cause of sporadic PD is not well understood, abundant clinical and pathological evidence show that misfolded α-synuclein is found in enteric nerves before it appears in the brain. This suggests a model in which PD pathology originates in the gut and spreads to the central nervous system via cell-to-cell prion-like propagation, such that transfer of misfolded α-synuclein initiates misfolding of native α-synuclein in recipient cells. We recently discovered that enteroendocrine cells (EECs), which are part of the gut epithelium and directly face the gut lumen, also possess many neuron-like properties and connect to enteric nerves. In this report, we demonstrate that α-synuclein is expressed in the EEC line, STC-1, and native EECs of mouse and human intestine. Furthermore, α-synuclein–containing EECs directly connect to α-synuclein–containing nerves, forming a neural circuit between the gut and the nervous system in which toxins or other environmental influences in the gut lumen could affect α-synuclein folding in the EECs, thereby beginning a process by which misfolded α-synuclein could propagate from the gut epithelium to the brain.
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“Both cell types naturally express α-synuclein and offer a theoretical source for early pathological α-synuclein aggregation and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve [9, 137].”
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“Gastrointestinal enteroendocrine cells that connect directly to the gut lumen and local neurones, and submucosal neurones which synapse micrometers from the gut lumen, could also be sources of α-synuclein [137].”
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- Authors
- Chandra, R., Hiniker, A., Kuo, Y.-M., Nussbaum, R. L., & Liddle, R. A.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Department of Pathology and
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Venue
- JCI Insight
- Published
- 2017-06-15
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 12
- ISSN
- 2379-3708 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5470880
- OpenAlex
- W2626849072
- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 12.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- JCI Insight (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (BX002230, I01 BX002230)
- Sandler Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001117)
- University of California, San Francisco
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK098796, R01DK109368)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (K08NS090633)
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- alpha-synuclein, Parkinson's disease, enteroendocrine cells, gut-brain axis, Lewy bodies, prion-like propagation, enteric nerves, STC-1 cells, neurodegeneration, intestinal epithelium
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