Transaldolase 1 impacts Parkinson's disease pathogenesis via metabolic reprogramming and autophagy-lysosomal pathway.

ABSTRACT: Parkinson's disease (PD) progression involves dopaminergic neurodegeneration and pathological α-synuclein aggregation, processes linked to metabolic dysregulation and autophagy-lysosomal pathway (ALP) impairment. Transaldolase1 (TAL1) is a key enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway. While elevated TAL1 protein levels have been observed in postmortem substantia nigra of PD patients, the enzyme's functional role in disease pathogenesis remains undefined. In this study, we explored the role of TAL1 in PD-related pathologies using MPTP-induced and AAV-A53T mouse models. We demonstrate that TAL1 upregulation is associated with dopaminergic neuron degeneration across both experimental models. TAL1 knockdown activated TFEB-mediated transcription of autophagy-lysosomal genes (Ctsb, Ctsd, Lamp1, B

SUBMITTER: Tan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12584206 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature