“…A number of parkin substrates have been identified including, CDCrel-1, CDCrel-2, synphilin-1, glycosylated ␣-synuclein, -tubulin, cyclin E, synaptotamin XI (SytXI), parkin-associated endothelin-like receptor (Pael-R), and p38/JTV-1 subunit of the multi-tRNA synthetase complex (Zhang et al, 2000;Chung et al, 2001;Imai et al, 2001;Shimura et al, 2001;Choi et al, 2003;Corti et al, 2003;Huynh et al, 2003;Ren et al, 2003;Staropoli et al, 2003;Jiang et al, 2004). CDCrel-1, CDCrel-2, Pael-R, and cyclin E appear to be upregulated in AR-JP brains (Imai et al, 2001;Choi et al, 2003;Staropoli et al, 2003), but none of these substrates have been reported to be upregulated in parkin knockout (KO) mice. Parkin-deficient mice with targeted disruption of parkin exon 3, which have subtle behavioral deficits and enhanced dopamine metabolism without loss of dopaminergic neurons (Goldberg et al, 2003;Itier et al, 2003), surprisingly, showed similar levels of CDCrel-1, synphilin-1, and ␣-synuclein (Goldberg et al, 2003;Palacino et al, 2004).…”