Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] The amyloid-β oligomer hypothesis: beginning of the third decade

EN Cline, MA Bicca, KL Viola… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
The amyloid-β oligomer (AβO) hypothesis was introduced in 1998. It proposed that the brain
damage leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD) was instigated by soluble, ligand-like AβOs …

[HTML][HTML] The role of amyloid-β oligomers in toxicity, propagation, and immunotherapy

U Sengupta, AN Nilson, R Kayed - EBioMedicine, 2016 - thelancet.com
The incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is growing every day and finding an effective
treatment is becoming more vital. Amyloid-β (Aβ) has been the focus of research for several …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma membrane integrity in health and disease: significance and therapeutic potential

C Dias, J Nylandsted - Cell discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Maintenance of plasma membrane integrity is essential for normal cell viability and function.
Thus, robust membrane repair mechanisms have evolved to counteract the eminent threat of …

Amyloid β oligomers in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, treatment, and diagnosis

KL Viola, WL Klein - Acta neuropathologica, 2015 - Springer
Protein aggregation is common to dozens of diseases including prionoses, diabetes,
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Over the past 15 years, there has been a paradigm shift in …

Characterization of lipid–protein interactions and lipid-mediated modulation of membrane protein function through molecular simulation

MP Muller, T Jiang, C Sun, M Lihan, S Pant… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The cellular membrane constitutes one of the most fundamental compartments of a living
cell, where key processes such as selective transport of material and exchange of …

[HTML][HTML] The toxicity and polymorphism of β-amyloid oligomers

Y Huang, R Liu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
It is widely accepted that β-amyloid oligomers (Aβos) play a key role in the progression of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) by inducing neuron damage and cognitive impairment, but Aβos …

[HTML][HTML] Natural compounds as inhibitors of Aβ peptide aggregation: chemical requirements and molecular mechanisms

K Pagano, S Tomaselli, H Molinari… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, with no
cure and preventive therapy. Misfolding and extracellular aggregation of Amyloid-β (Aβ) …

β-Amyloid peptides display protective activity against the human Alzheimer's disease-associated herpes simplex virus-1

K Bourgade, H Garneau, G Giroux, AY Le Page… - Biogerontology, 2015 - Springer
Amyloid plaques, the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), contain fibrillar β-amyloid (Aβ) 1-
40 and 1-42 peptides. Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) has been implicated as a risk factor …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid growth and membrane damage: Current themes and emerging perspectives from theory and experiments on Aβ and hIAPP

MFM Sciacca, C Tempra, F Scollo, D Milardi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two incurable diseases
both hallmarked by an abnormal deposition of the amyloidogenic peptides Aβ and Islet …