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While the causes of many sporadic neurodegenerative diseases are unclear, genes associated with familial or sporadic forms of disease and the underlying cellular pathways involved tend to support common disease mechanisms. Underscoring this concept, mutations in the Vacuolar Protein Sorting 35 Orthologue (VPS35) gene have been identified to cause late-onset, autosomal dominant familial Parkinson\u2019s disease, whereas reduced VPS35 protein levels are reported in vulnerable brain regions of subjects with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, neurodegenerative tauopathies such as progressive supranuclear palsy and Pick\u2019s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Therefore, VPS35 is commonly implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. VPS35 plays a critical role in the retromer complex that mediates the retrieval and recycling of transmembrane protein cargo from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network or plasma membrane. VPS35 and retromer function are highly conserved in eukaryotic cells, with the homozygous deletion of VPS35 inducing early embryonic lethality in mice that has hindered an understanding of its role in the brain. Here, we develop conditional knockout mice with the selective deletion of VPS35 in neurons to better elucidate its role in neuronal viability and its connection to neurodegenerative diseases. Surprisingly, the pan-neuronal deletion of VPS35 induces a progressive and rapid disease with motor deficits and early post-natal lethality. Underlying this neurological phenotype is the relatively selective and robust degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord. Neuronal loss is accompanied and preceded by the formation of p62-positive protein inclusions and robust reactive astrogliosis. Our study reveals a critical yet unappreciated role for VPS35 function in the normal maintenance and survival of motor neurons during post-natal development that has important implications for neurodegenerative diseases, particularly amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/braincomms\/fcab208","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,8]],"date-time":"2021-09-08T11:46:57Z","timestamp":1631101617000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Neuronal <i>VPS35<\/i> deletion induces spinal cord motor neuron degeneration and early post-natal lethality"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Dorian","family":"Sargent","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lindsey A","family":"Cunningham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurodegenerative 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