title: Proteasomal dysfunction: a common feature of neurodegenerative diseases? Implications for the environmental origins of neurodegeneration.
abstract: The neurodegenerative diseases that afflict humans affect different part of the nervous system and have different symptoms and prognoses, yet they have certain things in common. One of them is defects in the clearance of abnormal or other "unwanted" proteins, particularly affecting the proteasome system. In this review, I advance two concepts: (a) that defects in protein clearance can be a fundamental cause of neurodegeneration, and (b) that because proteasome inhibitors are widespread in nature, their ingestion may contribute to "spontaneous" neurodegeneration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. bchbh@nus.edu.sg
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Halliwell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D009410:Nerve Degeneration / Q000378:metabolism*; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex / Q000378:metabolism*; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational
chemical_list: D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex