Does TFEB activation directly restore mutant GBA enzyme activity or only enhance lysosomal biogenesis?

PARTIALLY ADDRESSED

The debate identified this as a critical mechanistic gap - TFEB may increase lysosomal volume without addressing the fundamental GBA enzyme defect. This distinction is essential for determining therapeutic efficacy and predicting which GBA mutations would respond. Source: Debate session sess_SDA-2026-04-10-gba-pd (Analysis: gba-pd)

Priority: 0.90 Domain: molecular-biology Hypotheses: 0
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Landscape Summary: Does TFEB activation directly restore mutant GBA enzyme activity or only enhance lysosomal biogenesis? is a 0.9 priority gap in molecular-biology. It has 0 linked hypotheses with average composite score 0.000. Status: partially_addressed.

Key Unanswered Questions

Key Researchers

Colonna, Sevlever, et al. (TREM2 biology)

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Does TFEB activation directly restore mutant GBA enzyme activity or only enhance lysosomal biogenesis? — INVOKE-2 (completed)

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🌊 Knowledge Graph Connections

activates (16)

TFEB→AutophagyTFEB→GENESTFEB→autophagyTFEB→AlsTFEB→AUTOPHAGY
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associated with (5)

GBA→GLUCOCEREBROSIDASEALZHEIMER'S DISEASE→GBAPARKINSON'S DISEASE→GBAGBA→Lewy body pathologyGBA→Parkinson's Disease

causes (4)

GBA→GAUCHER_DISEASEGBA→right pars triangularis volumeGBA→Gaucher's diseaseGBA→Gaucher Disease

encodes (5)

TFEB→TFEBGBA→GBAGBA→GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASEGBA→GCASEGBA→Glucocerebrosidase

expresses (1)

GBA→GLUCOCEREBROSIDASE

inhibits (2)

FLCN→TFEBRag-GTPases→TFEB

interacts with (1)

entities-histone-modifications→GBA

linked to (1)

genes-gba→GBA

phosphorylates (1)

mTOR→TFEB

promotes (2)

TFEB→syncytiotrophoblast formationTFEB→lysosome biogenesis

promotes nuclear import of (1)

TMX2→TFEB

regulates (6)

TFEB→AlsTFEB→lysosomal pool regenerationTFEB→MAFLDTFEB→syncytiotrophoblast differentiationTFEB→AUTOPHAGY
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risk factor for (2)

GBA→Parkinson'S DiseaseGBA→Parkinson Disease

upregulates (2)

TFEB→EndocytosisTFEB→FAM134B

upstream of (1)

mTORC1→TFEB
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