TY - JOUR AU - Albus, Alexandra AU - Kronimus, Yannick AU - Burg-Roderfeld, Monika AU - van der Wurp, Hendrik AU - Willbold, Dieter AU - Ziehm, Tamar AU - Dodel, Richard AU - Ross, Jean Alexander TI - The Avidity of Autoreactive Alpha-Synuclein Antibodies in Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 Mutation Carriers Is Not Altered Compared to Healthy Controls or Patients with Parkinson’s Disease JO - Biomolecules VL - 13 IS - 9 SN - 2218-273X CY - Basel PB - MDPI M1 - FZJ-2024-00732 SP - 1303 - PY - 2023 AB - The accumulation and aggregation of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) are pathological processes associated with Parkinson's disease, indicating that the regulation of protein is a crucial etiopathological mechanism. Interestingly, human serum and cerebrospinal fluid contain autoantibodies that recognize α-Syn. This potentially demonstrates an already existing, naturally decomposing, and protective system. Thus, quantitative or qualitative alterations, such as the modified antigen binding of so-called naturally occurring autoantibodies against α-Syn (nAbs-α-Syn), may induce disease onset and/or progression. We investigated the serum titers and binding characteristics of nAbs-α-Syn in patients suffering from sporadic Parkinson's disease (n = 38), LRRK2 mutation carriers (n = 25), and healthy controls (n = 22). LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - 37759704 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001074350200001 DO - DOI:10.3390/biom13091303 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1021436 ER -