Monitoring α-synuclein aggregation

J Estaun-Panzano, ML Arotcarena, E Bezard - Neurobiology of disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB),
and multiple system atrophy (MSA), are characterized by the misfolding and subsequent …

Protein misfolding and related human diseases: A comprehensive review of toxicity, proteins involved, and current therapeutic strategies

AN Khan, RH Khan - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2022 - Elsevier
Most of the cell's chemical reactions and structural components are facilitated by proteins.
But proteins are highly dynamic molecules, where numerous modifications or changes in the …

Ultrasound‒treated soy protein fibrils: A potential vehicle for curcumin with improved water solubility, antioxidant activity and sustained‒release property

F Ji, Z Wang, X Bai, Y Zhao, X Zhong, S Luo, Y Shen… - Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant protein fibrils have recently attracted considerable attention as delivery vehicles for
hydrophobic bioactive compounds. In this work, ultrasound treatment was applied to …

Peptide-based approaches to directly target alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease

SG Allen, RM Meade, LL White Stenner… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Peptides and their mimetics are increasingly recognised as drug-like molecules, particularly
for intracellular protein-protein interactions too large for inhibition by small molecules, and …

A comprehensive review of protein misfolding disorders, underlying mechanism, clinical diagnosis, and therapeutic strategies

S Basha, DC Mukunda, J Rodrigues… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The most prevalent biological macromolecules in living systems are proteins,
the building block of life, extremely dynamic in structure and functions. Due to several …

Amyloid peptides with antimicrobial and/or microbial agglutination activity

D Chen, X Liu, Y Chen, H Lin - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022 - Springer
Microbe (including bacteria, fungi, and virus) infection in brains is associated with amyloid
fibril deposit and neurodegeneration. Increasing findings suggest that amyloid proteins, like …

Role of conformational dynamics in pathogenic protein aggregation

X Sun, HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The accumulation of pathogenic protein oligomers and aggregates is associated with
several devastating amyloid diseases. As protein aggregation is a multi-step nucleation …

Protein aggregation and neurodegenerative disease: structural outlook for the novel therapeutics

S Arar, MA Haque, R Kayed - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Before the controversial approval of humanized monoclonal antibody lecanemab, which
binds to the soluble amyloid‐β protofibrils, all the treatments available earlier, for …

AFM-IR for nanoscale chemical characterization in life sciences: recent developments and future directions

AC VD dos Santos, N Hondl… - ACS Measurement …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the ubiquitous absorption of mid-infrared (IR) radiation by virtually all molecules that
belong to the major biomolecules groups (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids), the …

Laser-based mid-infrared spectroscopy for monitoring temperature-induced denaturation of bovine serum albumin and de-/stabilization effects of sugars

S Vijayakumar, J Rowlette, A Schwaighofer… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stability of high-concentration protein formulations is considered a major challenge in
current biopharmaceutical development. In this work, we introduce laser-based mid-infrared …