Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Visualizing and trapping transient oligomers in amyloid assembly pathways

EE Cawood, TK Karamanos, AJ Wilson… - Biophysical chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Oligomers which form during amyloid fibril assembly are considered to be key contributors
towards amyloid disease. However, understanding how such intermediates form, their …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic force microscopy for single molecule characterisation of protein aggregation

FS Ruggeri, T Šneideris, M Vendruscolo… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has opened up a wide range of novel
opportunities in nanoscience and new modalities of observation in complex biological …

Lipids uniquely alter rates of insulin aggregation and lower toxicity of amyloid aggregates

M Matveyenka, S Rizevsky, JP Pellois… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amyloid formation is a hallmark of many medical diseases including diabetes type 2,
Alzheimer's and Parkinson diseases. Under these pathological conditions, misfolded …

Amyloid aggregation simulations: challenges, advances and perspectives

B Strodel - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
In amyloid aggregation diseases soluble proteins coalesce into a wide array of undesirable
structures, ranging through oligomers and prefibrillar assemblies to highly ordered amyloid …

Unsaturation in the fatty acids of phospholipids drastically alters the structure and toxicity of insulin aggregates grown in their presence

M Matveyenka, S Rizevsky… - The journal of physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipid bilayers play an important role in the pathological assembly of amyloidogenic proteins
and peptides. This assembly yields oligomers and fibrils, which are highly toxic protein …

Recent advancements of nanomedicine in neurodegenerative disorders theranostics

S Mukherjee, VS Madamsetty… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent times have witnessed an upsurge in the incidence of neurodegenerative disorders
such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Prion disease, and …

Complete aggregation pathway of amyloid β (1-40) and (1-42) resolved on an atomically clean interface

PN Nirmalraj, J List, S Battacharya, G Howe, L Xu… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
To visualize amyloid β (Aβ) aggregates requires an uncontaminated and artifact-free
interface. This paper demonstrates the interface between graphene and pure water (verified …

The degree of unsaturation of fatty acids in phosphatidylserine alters the rate of insulin aggregation and the structure and toxicity of amyloid aggregates

M Matveyenka, S Rizevsky, D Kurouski - FEBS letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphatidylserine (PS) in the plasma membrane plays an important role in cell signaling
and apoptosis. Cell degeneration is also linked to numerous amyloid diseases, pathologies …

Pathways of amyloid-β aggregation depend on oligomer shape

B Barz, Q Liao, B Strodel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
One of the main research topics related to Alzheimer's disease is the aggregation of the
amyloid-β peptide, which was shown to follow different pathways for the two major alloforms …