Elucidating amyloid β-protein folding and assembly: a multidisciplinary approach

DB Teplow, ND Lazo, G Bitan, S Bernstein… - Accounts of chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Oligomeric, neurotoxic amyloid protein assemblies are thought to be causative agents in
Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Development of oligomer-specific …

Ion mobility–mass spectrometry reveals a conformational conversion from random assembly to β-sheet in amyloid fibril formation

C Bleiholder, NF Dupuis, T Wyttenbach, MT Bowers - Nature chemistry, 2011 - nature.com
Amyloid cascades that lead to peptide β-sheet fibrils and plaques are central to many
important diseases. Recently, intermediate assemblies of these cascades were identified as …

Aliphatic peptides show similar self-assembly to amyloid core sequences, challenging the importance of aromatic interactions in amyloidosis

A Lakshmanan, DW Cheong… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The self-assembly of abnormally folded proteins into amyloid fibrils is a hallmark of many
debilitating diseases, from Alzheimer's and Parkinson diseases to prion-related disorders …

Protein misfolding and aggregation: Mechanism, factors and detection

SK Chaturvedi, MK Siddiqi, P Alam, RH Khan - Process Biochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Amyloidogenic diseases are characterised by the formation of amyloid aggregates inside or
outside the cell. Amyloid-associated human diseases include Alzheimer's disease …

Amyloid aggregation: Role of biological membranes and the aggregate–membrane system

M Bucciantini, S Rigacci, M Stefani - The journal of physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Several human degenerative diseases involve amyloidogenic peptides/proteins with high
conformational plasticity and propensity to self-aggregate into polymeric fibrillar assemblies …

Targeting amyloid aggregation: an overview of strategies and mechanisms

S Giorgetti, C Greco, P Tortora, FA Aprile - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Amyloids result from the aggregation of a set of diverse proteins, due to either specific
mutations or promoting intra-or extra-cellular conditions. Structurally, they are rich in …

General principles underpinning amyloid structure

AIP Taylor, RA Staniforth - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid fibrils are a pathologically and functionally relevant state of protein folding, which is
generally accessible to polypeptide chains and differs fundamentally from the globular state …

AFM-based single molecule techniques: unraveling the amyloid pathogenic species

FS Ruggeri, J Habchi, A Cerreta… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: A wide class of human diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, such as
Alzheimer's disease, is due to the failure of a specific peptide or protein to keep its native …

The role of biomolecular condensates in protein aggregation

BS Visser, WP Lipiński, E Spruijt - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
There is an increasing amount of evidence that biomolecular condensates are linked to
neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation, such as Alzheimer's …

Amyloid toxicity is independent of polypeptide sequence, length and chirality

MT Pastor, N Kümmerer, V Schubert… - Journal of molecular …, 2008 - Elsevier
By using an amyloid sequence pattern, here we have identified putative six-residue
amyloidogenic stretches in several relevant amyloid proteins. Hexapeptides synthesized on …