Copper toxicity and deficiency: the vicious cycle at the core of protein aggregation in ALS

JH Min, RA Harris, H Sarlus - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The pathophysiology of ALS involves many signs of a disruption in copper homeostasis, with
both excess free levels and functional deficiency likely occurring simultaneously. This is …

A Small‐Molecule Ratiometric Photoacoustic Probe for the High‐Spatiotemporal‐Resolution Imaging of Copper (II) Dynamics in the Mouse Brain

Z Jiang, C Zhang, X Wang, Z Ling, Y Chen… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Copper dysmetabolism is associated with various neurodegenerative disorders, making
high‐spatiotemporal‐resolution imaging of Cu2+ in the brain essential for understanding the …

Pathological Impact of Redox Post-Translational Modifications

C Chahla, H Kovacic, L Ferhat… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Oxidative stress is involved in the development of several pathologies. The different reactive
oxygen species (ROS) produced during oxidative stress are at the origin of redox post …

Copper enhances aggregational toxicity of mutant huntingtin in a Drosophila model of Huntington's Disease

AG Lobato, N Ortiz-Vega, Y Zhu, D Neupane… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with clinical
presentations of moderate to severe cognitive, motor, and psychiatric disturbances. HD is …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of toxic metal-alpha synuclein interactions by human serum albumin

KM Pomier, R Ahmed, J Huang, G Melacini - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Human serum albumin (HSA), the most abundant protein in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid,
not only serves as a crucial carrier of various exogenous and endogenous ligands but also …

Copper ion incorporation in α‐synuclein amyloids

G Walke, R Kumar, P Wittung‐Stafshede - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Copper ion dys‐homeostasis is linked to neurodegenerative diseases involving amyloid
formation. Even if many amyloidogenic proteins can bind copper ions as monomers, little is …

[HTML][HTML] A novel NIR fluorescent probe for copper (ii) imaging in Parkinson's disease mouse brain

J Chen, R Luo, S Li, J Shao, T Wang, S Xie, L Xu… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Abnormal copper ion (Cu2+) levels are considered to be one of the pathological factors of
Parkinson's disease (PD), but the internal relationship between Cu2+ and PD progression …

Interplay between Copper, Phosphatidylserine, and α-Synuclein Suggests a Link between Copper Homeostasis and Synaptic Vesicle Cycling

X Teng, E Stefaniak, KR Willison… - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Copper homeostasis is critical to the functioning of the brain, and its breakdown is linked
with many brain diseases. Copper is also known to interact with the negatively charged lipid …

[HTML][HTML] Focus on cuproptosis: Exploring new mechanisms and therapeutic application prospects of cuproptosis regulation

D Hao, W Luo, Y Yan, J Zhou - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Cuproptosis is a novel form of regulated cell death, which plays an important role in the
physiological and pathological processes of the human body. Despite the increasing …

NMR studies of amyloid interactions

DA Middleton - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amyloid fibrils are insoluble, fibrous nanostructures that accumulate extracellularly in
biological tissue during the progression of several human disorders, including Alzheimer's …