Molecular dissection of amyloid disaggregation by human HSP70

AS Wentink, NB Nillegoda, J Feufel, G Ubartaitė… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The deposition of highly ordered fibrillar-type aggregates into inclusion bodies is a hallmark
of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The high stability of such …

The Hsc70 disaggregation machinery removes monomer units directly from α-synuclein fibril ends

MM Schneider, S Gautam, TW Herling… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular chaperones contribute to the maintenance of cellular protein homoeostasis
through assisting de novo protein folding and preventing amyloid formation. Chaperones of …

Regulation of α-synuclein by chaperones in mammalian cells

BM Burmann, JA Gerez, I Matečko-Burmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Neurodegeneration in patients with Parkinson's disease is correlated with the occurrence of
Lewy bodies—intracellular inclusions that contain aggregates of the intrinsically disordered …

Human Hsp70 disaggregase reverses Parkinson's-linked α-synuclein amyloid fibrils

X Gao, M Carroni, C Nussbaum-Krammer, A Mogk… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Intracellular amyloid fibrils linked to neurodegenerative disease typically accumulate in an
age-related manner, suggesting inherent cellular capacity for counteracting amyloid …

HSP40 proteins use class-specific regulation to drive HSP70 functional diversity

O Faust, M Abayev-Avraham, AS Wentink, M Maurer… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ubiquitous heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) family consists of ATP-dependent molecular
chaperones, which perform numerous cellular functions that affect almost all aspects of the …

Structural disorder of monomeric α-synuclein persists in mammalian cells

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, B Bekei, A Martorana, HM Rose… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Intracellular aggregation of the human amyloid protein α-synuclein is causally linked to
Parkinson's disease. While the isolated protein is intrinsically disordered, its native structure …

Phosphorylation modifies the molecular stability of β-amyloid deposits

N Rezaei-Ghaleh, M Amininasab, S Kumar… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Protein aggregation plays a crucial role in neurodegenerative diseases. A key feature of
protein aggregates is their ubiquitous modification by phosphorylation. Little is known …

Amyloid conformation-dependent disaggregation in a reconstituted yeast prion system

Y Nakagawa, HCH Shen, Y Komi, S Sugiyama… - Nature Chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Disaggregation of amyloid fibrils is a fundamental biological process required for amyloid
propagation. However, due to the lack of experimental systems, the molecular mechanism of …

Misfolded proteins partition between two distinct quality control compartments

D Kaganovich, R Kopito, J Frydman - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in intracellular amyloid inclusions, typical of many
neurodegenerative disorders including Huntington's and prion disease, is thought to occur …

Interaction of the molecular chaperone DNAJB6 with growing amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42) aggregates leads to sub-stoichiometric inhibition of amyloid formation

C Månsson, P Arosio, R Hussein, HH Kampinga… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The human molecular chaperone protein DNAJB6 was recently found to inhibit the formation
of amyloid fibrils from polyglutamine peptides associated with neurodegenerative disorders …