Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Microglia jointly degrade fibrillar alpha-synuclein cargo by distribution through tunneling nanotubes

H Scheiblich, C Dansokho, D Mercan, SV Schmidt… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Microglia are the CNS resident immune cells that react to misfolded proteins through pattern
recognition receptor ligation and activation of inflammatory pathways. Here, we studied how …

Small soluble α-synuclein aggregates are the toxic species in Parkinson's disease

D Emin, YP Zhang, E Lobanova, A Miller, X Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Soluble α-synuclein aggregates varying in size, structure, and morphology have been
closely linked to neuronal death in Parkinson's disease. However, the heterogeneity of …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

Cryo-EM of full-length α-synuclein reveals fibril polymorphs with a common structural kernel

B Li, P Ge, KA Murray, P Sheth, M Zhang, G Nair… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (aSyn) fibrillar polymorphs have distinct in vitro and in vivo seeding
activities, contributing differently to synucleinopathies. Despite numerous prior attempts, how …

Ultrasensitive RT-QuIC assay with high sensitivity and specificity for Lewy body-associated synucleinopathies

M Rossi, N Candelise, S Baiardi, S Capellari… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
The clinical diagnosis of synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia
with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (MSA), is challenging, especially at an …

Cellular milieu imparts distinct pathological α-synuclein strains in α-synucleinopathies

C Peng, RJ Gathagan, DJ Covell, C Medellin, A Stieber… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
In Lewy body diseases—including Parkinson's disease, without or with dementia, dementia
with Lewy bodies, and Alzheimer's disease with Lewy body co-pathology—α-synuclein (α …