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SUBMITTER: Lee JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3647462 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Ju-Hyun JH Yu W Haung WH Kumar Asok A Lee Sooyeon S Mohan Panaiyur S PS Peterhoff Corrinne M CM Wolfe Devin M DM Martinez-Vicente Marta M Massey Ashish C AC Sovak Guy G Uchiyama Yasuo Y Westaway David D Cuervo Ana Maria AM Nixon Ralph A RA
Cell 20100610 7
Macroautophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway essential for neuron survival. Here, we show that macroautophagy requires the Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related protein presenilin-1 (PS1). In PS1 null blastocysts, neurons from mice hypomorphic for PS1 or conditionally depleted of PS1, substrate proteolysis and autophagosome clearance during macroautophagy are prevented as a result of a selective impairment of autolysosome acidification and cathepsin activation. These deficits are caused by faile ...[more]