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Comparative Analysis of Total Alpha-Synuclein (alpha SYN) Immunoassays Reveals That They Do Not Capture the Diversity of Modified alpha SYN Proteoforms

Hilal Lashuel, Lorène Aeschbach, Mohamed Bilal Fares, Lara Petricca, Ritwik Burai, Layane Hanna-el-Daher

Background: The development of therapeutics for Parkinson's disease (PD) requires the establishment of biomarker assays to enable stratifying patients, monitoring disease progression, and assessing target engagement. Attempts to develop diagnostic assays b ...

IOS PRESS2022

TBK1 phosphorylates mutant Huntingtin and suppresses its aggregation and toxicity in Huntington's disease models

Johan Auwerx, Hilal Lashuel, Laurent Mouchiroud, Anass Chiki, Lara Petricca, Ramanath Narayana Hegde

Phosphorylation of the N‐terminal domain of the huntingtin (HTT ) protein has emerged as an important regulator of its localization, structure, aggregation, clearance and toxicity. However, validation of the effect of bona fide phosphorylation in vivo and ...

2020

Ultrasensitive quantitative measurement of huntingtin phosphorylation at residue S13

Hilal Lashuel, Lara Petricca, Sean Michael Deguire

Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of a CAG triplet repeat (encoding for a polyglutamine tract) within the first exon of the huntingtin gene. Expression of the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein can r ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2020

Phospho-S129 Alpha-Synuclein Is Present in Human Plasma but Not in Cerebrospinal Fluid as Determined by an Ultrasensitive Immunoassay

Hilal Lashuel, Sean Michael Deguire, Lara Petricca

Accumulation and aggregation of misfolded alpha-synuclein is believed to be a cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). Phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein at S129 is known to be associated with the pathological misfolding process, but efforts to investigate the r ...

2019

Polyglutamine expansion affects huntingtin conformation in multiple Huntington’s disease models

Hilal Lashuel, Lara Petricca, Sean Michael Deguire

Conformational changes in disease-associated or mutant proteins represent a key pathological aspect of Huntington's disease (HD) and other protein misfolding diseases. Using immunoassays and biophysical approaches, we and others have recently reported that ...

Springer Nature2017

Phosphorylation of huntingtin at residue T3 is decreased in Huntington’s disease and modulates mutant huntingtin protein conformation

Hilal Lashuel, Anass Chiki, Lara Petricca, Sean Michael Deguire

Posttranslational modifications can have profound effects on the biological and biophysical properties of proteins associated with misfolding and aggregation. However, their detection and quantification in clinical samples and an understanding of the mecha ...

2017

Detection of huntingtin exon 1 phosphorylation by Phos-Tag SDS-PAGE: Predominant phosphorylation on threonine 3 and regulation by IKKβ

Hilal Lashuel, Lara Petricca, Annalisa Ansaloni

2015