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 …

Conformational strains of pathogenic amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

D Li, C Liu - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Amyloid proteins, which are considered 'villains' in many neurodegenerative diseases, form
enigmatic pathological strains that underlie disease pathogenesis and progression. Recent …

Novel approaches to diagnosis and management of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis

A Carroll, PJ Dyck, M de Carvalho… - Journal of Neurology …, 2022 - jnnp.bmj.com
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a severe, adult-onset autosomal dominant
inherited systemic disease predominantly affecting the peripheral and autonomic nervous …

O-GlcNAc forces an α-synuclein amyloid strain with notably diminished seeding and pathology

AT Balana, AL Mahul-Mellier, BA Nguyen… - Nature chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Amyloid-forming proteins such α-synuclein and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's disease, can form different fibril structures or strains with distinct toxic properties …

[HTML][HTML] Disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease: more questions than answers

TE Golde - Neurotherapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Scientific advances over the last four decades have steadily infused the Alzheimer's disease
(AD) field with great optimism that therapies targeting Aβ, amyloid, tau, and innate immune …

[HTML][HTML] Computational methods to predict protein aggregation

S Navarro, S Ventura - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
In most cases, protein aggregation stems from the establishment of non-native
intermolecular contacts. The formation of insoluble protein aggregates is associated with …

Mechanistic basis for receptor-mediated pathological α-synuclein fibril cell-to-cell transmission in Parkinson's disease

S Zhang, YQ Liu, C Jia, YJ Lim… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The spread of pathological α-synuclein (α-syn) is a crucial event in the progression of
Parkinson's disease (PD). Cell surface receptors such as lymphocyte activation gene 3 …

Hierarchical chemical determination of amyloid polymorphs in neurodegenerative disease

D Li, C Liu - Nature chemical biology, 2021 - nature.com
Amyloid aggregation, which disrupts protein homeostasis, is a common pathological event
occurring in human neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). Numerous evidences have shown …

AlphaFold and the amyloid landscape

F Pinheiro, J Santos, S Ventura - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is a widespread phenomenon with important implications in many
scientific areas. Although amyloid formation is typically considered as detrimental, functional …

Phosphorylation and O-GlcNAcylation at the same α-synuclein site generate distinct fibril structures

J Hu, W Xia, S Zeng, YJ Lim, Y Tao, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein forms amyloid fibrils that are critical in the progression of Parkinson's
disease and serves as the pathological hallmark of this condition. Different posttranslational …