Early work showed that hyperphosphorylation of tau is correlated to pathology of tauopathies and phosphorylation of α-syn at serine129 is correlated to synucleinopathies (for reviews, see references Martin et al., 2011; Tenreiro et al., 2014); therefore much work has focused on identifying and characterizing kinases of these proteins (for reviews, see references Vancraenenbroeck et al., 2011; Martin et al., 2013b; Tenreiro et al., 2014). Here, MAPT is linked to synucleinopathy.