[HTML][HTML] Interactions of α-synuclein oligomers with lipid membranes

G Musteikytė, AK Jayaram, CK Xu… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is an increasingly prevalent and currently incurable neurodegenerative
disorder. At the molecular level, this disease is characterized by the formation of aberrant …

[HTML][HTML] The role of amyloid oligomers in neurodegenerative pathologies

C Wells, S Brennan, M Keon, L Ooi - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many neurodegenerative diseases are rooted in the activities of amyloid-like proteins which
possess conformations that spread to healthy proteins. These include Alzheimer's disease …

[HTML][HTML] The role of surfaces on amyloid formation

F Grigolato, P Arosio - Biophysical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Interfaces can strongly accelerate or inhibit protein aggregation, destabilizing proteins that
are stable in solution or, conversely, stabilizing proteins that are aggregation-prone …

On the structural diversity and individuality of polymorphic amyloid protein assemblies

L Lutter, LD Aubrey, WF Xue - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The prediction of highly ordered three-dimensional structures of amyloid protein fibrils from
the amino acid sequences of their monomeric self-assembly precursors constitutes a …

[HTML][HTML] Squalamine and its derivatives modulate the aggregation of amyloid-β and α-synuclein and suppress the toxicity of their oligomers

R Limbocker, R Staats, S Chia, FS Ruggeri… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The aberrant aggregation of proteins is a key molecular event in the development and
progression of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders. We have shown previously …

Peptidomimetic-based vesicles inhibit amyloid-β fibrillation and attenuate cytotoxicity

D Maity, M Howarth, MC Vogel… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An interruption in Aβ homeostasis leads to the deposit of neurotoxic amyloid plaques and is
associated with Alzheimer's disease. A supramolecular strategy based on the assembly of …

Kinetics theories to understand the mechanism of aggregation of a protein and to design strategies for its inhibition

S Sharma, P Modi, G Sharma, S Deep - Biophysical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation phenomenon is closely related to the formation of amyloids which
results in many neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and …

The binding of the small heat-shock protein αB-crystallin to fibrils of α-synuclein is driven by entropic forces

T Scheidt, JA Carozza, CC Kolbe… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular chaperones are key components of the cellular proteostasis network whose role
includes the suppression of the formation and proliferation of pathogenic aggregates …

[HTML][HTML] Aβ receptors specifically recognize molecular features displayed by fibril ends and neurotoxic oligomers

L Amin, DA Harris - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Several cell-surface receptors for neurotoxic forms of amyloid-β (Aβ) have been described,
but their molecular interactions with Aβ assemblies and their relative contributions to …

[HTML][HTML] In-vitro and in-vivo characterization of CRANAD-2 for multi-spectral optoacoustic tomography and fluorescence imaging of amyloid-beta deposits in Alzheimer …

R Ni, A Villois, XL Dean-Ben, Z Chen, M Vaas… - Photoacoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
The abnormal deposition of fibrillar beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposits in the brain is one of the
major histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we characterized …