In situ measurements of the formation and morphology of intracellular β-amyloid fibrils by super-resolution fluorescence imaging

GS Kaminski Schierle, S Van De Linde… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Misfolding and aggregation of peptides and proteins is a characteristic of many
neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). In AD the β-amyloid …

Direct observation of heterogeneous amyloid fibril growth kinetics via two-color super-resolution microscopy

D Pinotsi, AK Buell, C Galvagnion, CM Dobson… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of normally soluble proteins into fibrillar amyloid structures is associated
with a range of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases …

Visualization and classification of amyloid β supramolecular assemblies

H Yagi, T Ban, K Morigaki, H Naiki, Y Goto - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Deposition of amyloid β (Aβ) fibrils has been suggested to play a central role in Alzheimer's
disease. In clarifying the mechanism by which fibrils form and moreover in developing new …

Direct observations of amyloid β self-assembly in live cells provide insights into differences in the kinetics of Aβ (1–40) and Aβ (1–42) aggregation

EK Esbjörner, F Chan, E Rees, M Erdelyi, LM Luheshi… - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
Insight into how amyloid β (Aβ) aggregation occurs in vivo is vital for understanding the
molecular pathways that underlie Alzheimer's disease and requires new techniques that …

Single-molecule imaging of individual amyloid protein aggregates in human biofluids

MH Horrocks, SF Lee, S Gandhi… - ACS Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The misfolding and aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils characterizes many
neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. We report here …

Studies on the in vitro assembly of Aβ 1–40: implications for the search for Aβ fibril formation inhibitors

CS Goldsbury, S Wirtz, SA Müller, S Sunderji… - Journal of structural …, 2000 - Elsevier
The progressive deposition of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ) in fibrillar form is a key feature in
the development of the pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have characterized the …

Superresolution imaging of amyloid fibrils with binding-activated probes

J Ries, V Udayar, A Soragni… - ACS chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding into amyloid-like aggregates underlies many neurodegenerative
diseases. Thus, insights into the structure and function of these amyloids will provide …

Amyloid β-protein assembly and Alzheimer's disease: dodecamers of Aβ42, but not of Aβ40, seed fibril formation

NJ Economou, MJ Giammona, TD Do… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Evidence suggests that oligomers of the 42-residue form of the amyloid β-protein (Aβ), Aβ42,
play a critical role in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we use high resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular structure of β-amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease brain tissue

JX Lu, W Qiang, WM Yau, CD Schwieters, SC Meredith… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
In vitro, β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides form polymorphic fibrils, with molecular structures that
depend on growth conditions, plus various oligomeric and protofibrillar aggregates. Here …

Probing amyloid protein aggregation with optical superresolution methods: from the test tube to models of disease

CF Kaminski, GS Kaminski Schierle - Neurophotonics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The misfolding and self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins into insoluble amyloid
structures are central to many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and …