Lipids and EGCG affect α-synuclein association and disruption of nanodiscs

HM Sanders, MM Kostelic, CK Zak, MT Marty - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipid membranes have recently been implicated in protein misfolding and disease etiology,
including for α-synuclein and Parkinson's disease. However, studying the intersection of …

Single-molecular heteroamyloidosis of human islet amyloid polypeptide

A Kakinen, Y Xing, N Hegoda Arachchi, I Javed… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Human amyloids and plaques uncovered post mortem are highly heterogeneous in structure
and composition, yet literature concerning the heteroaggregation of amyloid proteins is …

Synuclein proteins in cancer development and progression

LC Zanotti, F Malizia, N Cesatti Laluce, A Avila… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Synucleins are a family of small, soluble proteins mainly expressed in neural tissue and in
certain tumors. Since their discovery, tens of thousands of scientific reports have been …

Conformational ensembles explain NMR spectra of frozen intrinsically disordered proteins

J Kragelj, R Dumarieh, Y Xiao, KK Frederick - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein regions which are intrinsically disordered, exist as an ensemble of rapidly
interconverting structures. Cooling proteins to cryogenic temperatures for dynamic nuclear …

Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine uniquely modify the secondary structure of α-synuclein oligomers formed in their presence at the early stages of protein …

T Dou, D Kurouski - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2022 - ACS Publications
Abrupt aggregation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) leads to a formation of highly toxic protein
oligomers. These aggregates are the underlying molecular cause of an onset of the …

Alpha-synuclein—nanoparticle interactions: Understanding, controlling and exploiting conformational plasticity

M D'Onofrio, F Munari, M Assfalg - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alpha-synuclein (αS) is an extensively studied protein due to its involvement in a group of
neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson′ s disease, and its documented ability to …

Membrane interactions of α-Synuclein revealed by multiscale molecular dynamics simulations, Markov state models, and NMR

SBTA Amos, TC Schwarz, J Shi… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
α-Synuclein (αS) is a presynaptic protein that binds to cell membranes and is linked to
Parkinson's disease (PD). Binding of αS to membranes is a likely first step in the molecular …

The small heat shock protein, HSPB1, interacts with and modulates the physical structure of membranes

B Csoboz, I Gombos, Z Kóta, B Dukic… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) have been demonstrated to interact with lipids and
modulate the physical state of membranes across species. Through these interactions …

Structural characterisation of α-synuclein–membrane interactions and the resulting aggregation using small angle scattering

C Galvagnion, A Barclay, K Makasewicz… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The presence of amyloid fibrils is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases. Some
amyloidogenic proteins, such as α-synuclein and amyloid β, interact with lipids, and this …

A series of helical α-synuclein fibril polymorphs are populated in the presence of lipid vesicles

RM Meade, RJ Williams, JM Mason - NPJ Parkinson's disease, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (αS) deposition is a defining characteristic of Parkinson's disease (PD)
pathology, and other synucleinopathies. αS aggregates in disease, leading to the …