Lewy pathology in Parkinson's disease consists of a crowded organellar, membranous medley

SH Shahmoradian, AJ Lewis, C Genoud, J Hench… - biorxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Parkinson's disease, the most common age-related movement disorder, is a progressive
neurodegenerative disease with unclear etiology. Key neuropathological hallmarks are …

[HTML][HTML] Multisite interactions of prions with membranes and native nanodiscs

M Overduin, H Wille, D Westaway - Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2021 - Elsevier
Although prions are known as protein-only infectious particles, they exhibit lipid specificities,
cofactor dependencies and membrane-dependent activities. Such membrane interactions …

How epigallocatechin gallate binds and assembles oligomeric forms of human alpha-synuclein

CB Andersen, Y Yoshimura, J Nielsen, DE Otzen… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
The intrinsically disordered human protein α-synuclein (αSN) can self-associate into
oligomers and amyloid fibrils. Several lines of evidence suggest that oligomeric αSN is …

Large Unilamellar Vesicles of Phosphatidic Acid Reduce the Toxicity of α-Synuclein Fibrils

A Ali, AP Holman, A Rodriguez, K Zhaliazka… - Molecular …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a severe pathology that is caused by a progressive
degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta as well as other …

Conformational Selection of α-Synuclein Tetramers at Biological Interfaces

S Bhattacharya, L Xu, L Arrué, T Bartels… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Controlling the polymorphic assemblies of α-synuclein (αS) oligomers is crucial to reroute
toxic protein aggregation implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD). One potential mediator is …

Folding of N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein upon interaction with lipid membranes

Z Tang, Z Fang, X Wu, J Liu, L Tian, X Li, J Diao, B Ji… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-syn) is an abundant presynaptic neuronal protein whose
aggregation is strongly associated with Parkinson's disease. It has been proposed that lipid …

Molecular dynamics study of the interaction between the N-terminal of α-synuclein and a lipid bilayer mimicking synaptic vesicles

C Kang, R Sun - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
The interaction between α-synuclein (α-syn) and synaptic vesicles (SVs) plays an important
role in the life cycle of α-syn, and a disruption of it could lead to numerous …

A charged tail on anti-α-Synuclein antibodies does not enhance their affinity to α-Synuclein fibrils

I Petersen, A Godec, F Ranjbarian, A Hofer… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The aggregation of α-Synuclein (αSyn) is strongly linked to neuronal death in Parkinson's
disease and other synucleinopathies. The spreading of aggregated αSyn between neurons …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic behaviors of α-synuclein and tau in the cellular context: New mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities in neurodegeneration

F Yeboah, TE Kim, A Bill, U Dettmer - Neurobiology of disease, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract α-Synuclein (αS) and tau have a lot in common. Dyshomeostasis and aggregation
of both proteins are central in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson's …

[HTML][HTML] Elucidating the mechanisms of α-Synuclein-lipid interactions using site-directed mutagenesis

A Ali, AP Holman, A Rodriguez, L Osborne… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-syn) is a small protein that is involved in cell vesicle trafficking in
neuronal synapses. A progressive aggregation of this protein is the expected molecular …