Treatment of proteinopathies
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsDmitri Krainc, Joseph R. Mazzulli
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AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsDmitri Krainc, Joseph R. Mazzulli
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The present disclosure provides technologies relating to lysosomal activation. The disclosure provides several strategies for increasing level and/or activity of lysosomal enzyme, and furthermore demonstrates the surprising applicability of such strategies in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of certain proteinopathies. Among other things, the present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of proteinopathies other than lysosomal storage diseases through lysosomal activation. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of neurodegenerative proteinopathies, and in particular those associated with accumulation of α-synuclein. The present disclosure specifically provides methods and compositions for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of Parkinson's disease.
A method of treating a neurodegenerative proteinopathic disease in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising:
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