Competitive mirror image phage display derived peptide modulates amyloid beta aggregation and toxicity

S Rudolph, AN Klein, M Tusche, C Schlosser, A Elfgen… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer´ s disease is the most prominent type of dementia and currently no causative
treatment is available. According to recent studies, oligomeric species of the amyloid beta …

Nanoscale interplay of membrane composition and amyloid self-assembly

S Menon, N Sengupta, P Das - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cell membranes are complex assemblies of lipids and proteins exhibiting lipid
compositional heterogeneity between the inner and outer leaflets of the bilayer. Aberrant …

Highlighting the effect of amyloid beta assemblies on the mechanical properties and conformational stability of cell membrane

G Grasso, C Lionello, F Stojceski - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, characterized by a
progressive decline in cognitive function due to the abnormal aggregation and deposition of …

A Linear Fit for Atomic Force Microscopy Nanoindentation Experiments on Soft Samples

SV Kontomaris, A Malamou, A Zachariades… - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) nanoindentation is a powerful technique for determining the
mechanical properties of soft samples at the nanoscale. The Hertz model is typically used for …

Structural model for self-limiting β-strand arrangement within an Alzheimer's amyloid-β oligomer

Y Gao, R Prasad, PS Randolph, JO Watzlawik… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Previous reports revealed that sodium dodecyl sulfate near its critical micelle concentration
can drive the assembly of Aβ42 along an oligomeric pathway. This pathway produces a 150 …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid pore-channel hypothesis: effect of ethanol on aggregation state using frog oocytes for an Alzheimer's disease study

J Parodi, D Ormeño, LD Ochoa-de la Paz - BMB reports, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease severely compromises cognitive function. One of the mechanisms to
explain the pathology of Alzheimer's disease has been the hypotheses of amyloid …

Graphene nanopore support system for simultaneous high-resolution AFM imaging and conductance measurements

LS Connelly, B Meckes, J Larkin… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Accurately defining the nanoporous structure and sensing the ionic flow across nanoscale
pores in thin films and membranes has a wide range of applications, including …

Fluorescence quenching by lipid encased nanoparticles shows that amyloid-β has a preferred orientation in the membrane

B Chandra, BK Maity, A Das, S Maiti - Chemical communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Short range plasmonic fields around a nanoparticle can modulate fluorescence or Raman
processes. In lipid encased nanoparticles, this can potentially measure the relative depths of …

The role of alpha-helix on the structure-targeting drug design of amyloidogenic proteins

C Tempra, C La Rosa, F Lolicato - Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2021 - Elsevier
The most accredited hypothesis links the toxicity of amyloid proteins to their harmful effects
on membrane integrity through the formation of prefibrillar-transient oligomers able to disrupt …

Single-molecule studies of amyloid proteins: from biophysical properties to diagnostic perspectives

J Wu, C Cao, RA Loch, A Tiiman, J Luo - Quarterly reviews of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In neurodegenerative diseases, a wide range of amyloid proteins or peptides such as
amyloid-beta and α-synuclein fail to keep native functional conformations, followed by …