Understanding the molecular causes of Parkinson's disease

A Wood-Kaczmar, S Gandhi, NW Wood - Trends in molecular medicine, 2006 - cell.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is both common and
incurable. The majority of cases are sporadic and of unknown origin but several genes have …

Molecular structure of amyloid fibrils: insights from solid-state NMR

R Tycko - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2006 - cambridge.org
1. Introduction 22. Sources of structural information in solid-state NMR data 52.1 General
remarks 52.2 Chemical shifts, linewidths, and magic-angle spinning 62.3 Dipole–dipole …

Phosphorylation of Ser-129 is the dominant pathological modification of α-synuclein in familial and sporadic Lewy body disease

JP Anderson, DE Walker, JM Goldstein… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
A comprehensive, unbiased inventory of synuclein forms present in Lewy bodies from
patients with dementia with Lewy bodies was carried out using two-dimensional immunoblot …

Sensitivity of secondary structure propensities to sequence differences between α‐and γ‐synuclein: implications for fibrillation

JA Marsh, VK Singh, Z Jia, JD Forman‐Kay - Protein Science, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The synucleins are a family of intrinsically disordered proteins involved in various human
diseases. α‐Synuclein has been extensively characterized due to its role in Parkinson's …

Small molecule inhibitors of α-synuclein filament assembly

M Masuda, N Suzuki, S Taniguchi, T Oikawa… - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
α-Synuclein is the major component of the filamentous inclusions that constitute defining
characteristics of Parkinson's disease and other α-synucleinopathies. Here we have tested …

Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) modification of natively unfolded proteins tau and α-synuclein

V Dorval, PE Fraser - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006 - ASBMB
Sumoylation is an important post-translational modification that provides a rapid and
reversible means for controlling the activity, subcellular localization, and stability of target …

Antioxidant compounds have potent anti‐fibrillogenic and fibril‐destabilizing effects for α‐synuclein fibrils in vitro

K Ono, M Yamada - Journal of neurochemistry, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The aggregation of α‐synuclein (αS) in the brain has been implicated as a critical step in the
development of Lewy body diseases (LBD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Various …

Pathological changes in dopaminergic nerve cells of the substantia nigra and olfactory bulb in mice transgenic for truncated human α-synuclein (1–120): implications …

GK Tofaris, PG Reitböck, T Humby… - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
Dysfunction of the 140 aa protein α-synuclein plays a central role in Lewy body disorders,
including Parkinson's disease, as well as in multiple system atrophy. Here, we show that the …

Secondary structure of α-synuclein oligomers: characterization by raman and atomic force microscopy

MM Apetri, NC Maiti, MG Zagorski, PR Carey… - Journal of molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
Formation of α-synuclein aggregates is proposed to be a crucial event in the pathogenesis
of Parkinson's disease. Large soluble oligomeric species are observed as probable …

α-Synuclein structure, posttranslational modification and alternative splicing as aggregation enhancers

K Beyer - Acta neuropathologica, 2006 - Springer
Abstract α-Synuclein aggregation is thought to be a key event in the pathogenesis of
synucleinopathies. Although different α-synuclein alterations and modifications have been …