title: [Mechanisms of juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL)].
abstract: Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL) is one type of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCLs), which is a group of pediatric neurodegenerative disorders. The symptoms of JNCL are retinal degeneration (rd), seizures, cognitive, and motor decline. The pathogenesis, summarized in this review, include apoptosis, autophagy, dysfunction in the structure associated with plasmalemma, oxidative stress and disruption of nitric oxide signaling, dysfunction of the mitochondrial and lysosome, unbalanced intracellular pH, and other relative mechanisms. Among them, only apoptosis and autophagy are well known. In apoptosis, the defects in CLN3 result in ceramide accumulation and upstream of mitochondrial membrane per-meabilization, which eventually induce caspase-dependent and caspase-independent cell death. Autophagy exists but is disrupted because the immaturity of autophagic vacuoles leads to the failure of autophagy circulation. Understanding of the pathogenesis, especially the pathways of cell death in JNCL, is helpful to explore the mechanism of neurodegenerative dis-orders, such as JNCL.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China. samuelwsy@163.com
authors.forename: Shi-Yao
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei-Na
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001343:Autophagy; D006801:Humans; D009472:Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D015398:Signal Transduction