Lin Shao

Dystrophic changes of nigrostriatal axons harboring a SYNJ1 Parkinson's mutation suggest catastrophic failure of endocytic mechanisms.

Synaptojanin 1 is a brain enriched phosphoinositide phosphatase implicated in endocytosis at the synapse. A mutation (R258Q) that selectively impairs its Sac1 phosphatase domain causes early onset familial Parkinsonism. Neurons of mice with this mutation display synaptic vesicle traffic defects across the brain, but se...