Multiplicity of α-synuclein aggregated species and their possible roles in disease

P Gracia, JD Camino, L Volpicelli-Daley… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
α-Synuclein amyloid aggregation is a defining molecular feature of Parkinson's disease,
Lewy body dementia, and multiple system atrophy, but can also be found in other …

[HTML][HTML] Looking at the recent advances in understanding α-synuclein and its aggregation through the proteoform prism

VN Uversky - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite attracting the close attention of multiple researchers for the past 25 years, α-
synuclein continues to be an enigma, hiding sacred truth related to its structure, function …

Structural characteristics of α-synuclein oligomers

N Cremades, SW Chen, CM Dobson - … review of cell and molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Oligomeric forms of amyloid aggregates have been detected in the brains and tissues of
patients suffering from neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, and it is …

Pathogenic effects of α-synuclein aggregation

D Lundvig, E Lindersson, PH Jensen - Molecular Brain Research, 2005 - Elsevier
Biochemcal and genetic evidence point towards α-synuclein aggregation as having a pivotal
role in the onset and progression of several neurodegenerative disorders, including …

[HTML][HTML] Amino acid determinants of α-synuclein aggregation: putting together pieces of the puzzle

VN Uversky, AL Fink - FEBS letters, 2002 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and results
from loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. The aggregation and fibrillation of …

α-Synuclein aggregation and modulating factors

KE Paleologou, OMA El-Agnaf - Protein Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis in …, 2012 - Springer
Aggregated a-synuclein is the major component of inclusions in Parkinson's disease and
other synucleinopathy brains indicating that a-syn aggregation is associated with the …

The concept of α-Synuclein strains and how different conformations may explain distinct neurodegenerative disorders

K Malfertheiner, N Stefanova, A Heras-Garvin - Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past few years, an increasing amount of studies primarily based on experimental
models have investigated the existence of distinct α-synuclein strains and their different …

Neurons and glia interplay in α-synucleinopathies

P Mavroeidi, M Xilouri - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accumulation of the neuronal presynaptic protein alpha-synuclein within proteinaceous
inclusions represents the key histophathological hallmark of a spectrum of …

α-synuclein misfolding and neurodegenerative diseases

VN Uversky - Current protein and peptide science, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
α-Synuclein is an abundant presynaptic brain protein, misfolding, aggregation and
fibrillation of which are implicated as critical factors in several neurodegenerative diseases …

α-synuclein conformational strains as drivers of phenotypic heterogeneity in neurodegenerative diseases

RWL So, JC Watts - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and
multiple system atrophy, are a class of human neurodegenerative disorders unified by the …