Exploring the interplay between disordered and ordered oligomer channels on the aggregation energy landscapes of α-synuclein

X Chen, M Chen, PG Wolynes - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The abnormal aggregation of α-synulcein is associated with multiple neurodegenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The hydrophobic non-amyloid component (NAC) …

Impact of the α-synuclein initial ensemble structure on fibrillation pathways and kinetics

J Bai, K Cheng, M Liu, C Li - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
The presence of intracellular filamentous α-synuclein (αS) aggregates is a common feature
in Parkinson's disease. Recombinant expressed and purified human αS is also capable of …

Diverse metastable structures formed by small oligomers of α-synuclein probed by force spectroscopy

K Neupane, A Solanki, I Sosova, M Belov… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Oligomeric aggregates are widely suspected as toxic agents in diseases caused by protein
aggregation, yet they remain poorly characterized, partly because they are challenging to …

[HTML][HTML] Transient β-hairpin formation in α-synuclein monomer revealed by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation

H Yu, W Han, W Ma, K Schulten - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Parkinson's disease, originating from the intrinsically disordered peptide α-synuclein, is a
common neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 5% of the population above age …

The fold preference and thermodynamic stability of α-synuclein fibrils is encoded in the non-amyloid-β component region

L Xu, S Bhattacharya, D Thompson - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The heterogeneity of the synucleinopathies, neurological disorders that include Parkinson's
disease (PD), indicates that toxicity, seeding/cross-seeding ability, and propagation of α …

Conformational plasticity in α-synuclein and how crowded environment modulates it

S Menon, J Mondal - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
A 140-residue intrinsically disordered protein (IDP), α-synuclein (αS), is known to adopt
conformations that are vastly plastic and susceptible to environmental cues and crowders …

Phase separation and aggregation of α-synuclein diverge at different salt conditions

R Sternke-Hoffmann, X Sun, A Menzel, M Wördehoff… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
Aggregation of intrinsically disordered proteins have long been recognized as central to
amyloid diseases. However, recent research has illuminated the significance of liquid-liquid …

Intrinsic conformational preferences and interactions in α-synuclein fibrils: insights from molecular dynamics simulations

IM Ilie, D Nayar, WK Den Otter… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Amyloid formation by the intrinsically disordered α-synuclein protein is the hallmark of
Parkinson's disease. We present atomistic Molecular Dynamics simulations of the core of α …

Familial mutations may switch conformational preferences in α-synuclein fibrils

L Xu, B Ma, R Nussinov… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease is closely associated with the aggregation of the α-
synuclein protein. Several familial mutants have been identified and shown to affect the …

E46K Mutation of α-Synuclein Preorganizes the Intramolecular Interactions Crucial for Aggregation

D Huang, C Guo - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aggregation of α-synuclein is central to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. The most
toxic familial mutation E46K accelerates the aggregation process by an unknown …