The Aβ oligomer hypothesis for synapse failure and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

ST Ferreira, WL Klein - Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2011 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the 3rd most costly disease and the leading cause of dementia.
It can linger for many years, but ultimately is fatal, the 6th leading cause of death …

Alzheimer's disease: synapses gone cold

RM Koffie, BT Hyman, TL Spires-Jones - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2011 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by
insidious cognitive decline and memory dysfunction. Synapse loss is the best pathological …

Soluble Aβ oligomers inhibit long-term potentiation through a mechanism involving excessive activation of extrasynaptic NR2B-containing NMDA receptors

S Li, M Jin, T Koeglsperger… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia severity correlates strongly with decreased synapse
density in hippocampus and cortex. Numerous studies report that hippocampal long-term …

Interaction between prion protein and toxic amyloid β assemblies can be therapeutically targeted at multiple sites

DB Freir, AJ Nicoll, I Klyubin, S Panico… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
A role for PrP in the toxic effect of oligomeric forms of Aβ, implicated in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), has been suggested but remains controversial. Here we show that PrP is required for …

Misfolded protein aggregates: mechanisms, structures and potential for disease transmission

I Moreno-Gonzalez, C Soto - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Some of the most prevalent human degenerative diseases appear as a result of the
misfolding and aggregation of proteins. Compelling evidence suggest that misfolded protein …

Lipid Rafts: Linking Alzheimer′s Amyloid‐β Production, Aggregation, and Toxicity at Neuronal Membranes

JV Rushworth, NM Hooper - International journal of Alzheimer's …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Lipid rafts are membrane microdomains, enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids, into
which specific subsets of proteins and lipids partition, creating cell‐signalling platforms that …

Pyroglutamate amyloid-β (Aβ): a hatchet man in Alzheimer disease

S Jawhar, O Wirths, TA Bayer - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 - ASBMB
Pyroglutamate-modified amyloid-β (Aβ pE3) peptides are gaining considerable attention as
potential key participants in the pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) due to their abundance …

Binding of the molecular chaperone αB-crystallin to Aβ amyloid fibrils inhibits fibril elongation

SL Shammas, CA Waudby, S Wang, AK Buell… - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
The molecular chaperone αB-crystallin is a small heat-shock protein that is upregulated in
response to a multitude of stress stimuli, and is found colocalized with Aβ amyloid fibrils in …

Aβ oligomer-induced synapse degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

KC Wilcox, PN Lacor, J Pitt, WL Klein - Cellular and molecular …, 2011 - Springer
Aβ oligomers cause a collection of molecular events associated with memory loss in
Alzheimer's disease, centering on disrupting the maintenance of synapse structure and …

Transformation of amyloid β (1–40) oligomers into fibrils is characterized by a major change in secondary structure

R Sarroukh, E Cerf, S Derclaye, YF Dufrêne… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2011 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder occurring in the elderly. It is
widely accepted that the amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) aggregation and especially the …