PD-associated variants in the gene encoding alpha-synuclein (α-SYN) inhibit the secretion of UCHL1 (Konya et al. 2011); the PD-associated serine protease htrA2 has been shown to cleave UCHL1 (Park et al. 2011); and UCHL1 was identified as interacting with the Parkin E3 ubiquitin ligase in double affinity proteomics (Davison et al. 2009) and is a substrate for Parkin (McKeon et al. 2015). Here, UCHL1 is linked to Parkinson disease.