Shiyue Chen

Dual effect of α-synuclein disease variants on condensate formation

Abstract α-synuclein is a pre-synaptic protein implicated in synucleinopathies including Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies, where it accumulates in intracellular aggregates termed Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites. Recent studies have re...