Exploring Peptido‐Nanocomposites in the Context of Amyloid Diseases

N Andrikopoulos, H Tang, Y Wang, X Liang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic peptides are a major class of pharmaceutical drugs owing to their target‐
binding specificity as well as their versatility in inhibiting aberrant protein‐protein …

A multiple hits hypothesis for memory dysfunction in Parkinson disease

S Citro, GD Lazzaro, AT Cimmino, GM Giuffrè… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cognitive disorders are increasingly recognized in Parkinson disease (PD), even in early
disease stages, and memory is one of the most affected cognitive domains. Classically …

Nuclear aggregates of NONO/SFPQ and A-to-I-edited RNA in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

NR Belur, BI Bustos, SJ Lubbe, JR Mazzulli - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are commonly classified as proteinopathies that are defined by
the aggregation of a specific protein. Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy …

Ultrastructural localization of Porphyromonas gingivalis gingipains in the substantia nigra of Parkinson's disease brains

F Ermini, VF Low, JJ Song, AYS Tan, RLM Faull… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Gingipains are protease virulence factors produced by Porphyromonas gingivalis, a Gram-
negative bacterium best known for its role in chronic periodontitis. Gingipains were recently …

Understanding the Modulation of α-Synuclein Fibrillation by N-Acetyl Aspartate: A Brain Metabolite

T Khan, R Waseem, M Shahid, J Ansari, MI Hassan… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
α-Synuclein (α-Syn) fibrillation is a prominent contributor to neuronal deterioration and plays
a significant role in the advancement of Parkinson's Disease (PD). Considering this, the …

Distinct ultrastructural phenotypes of glial and neuronal alpha-synuclein inclusions in multiple system atrophy

C Böing, M Di Fabrizio, D Burger, JGJM Bol… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Multiple System Atrophy is characterized pathologically by the accumulation of
alpha-synuclein (aSyn) into glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs). The mechanism underlying …

Ubiquitin Carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase L1 and Its Role in Parkinson's Disease

O Buneeva, A Medvedev - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), also known as Parkinson's disease
protein 5, is a highly expressed protein in the brain. It plays an important role in the ubiquitin …

Effect of Pressure on the Conformational Landscape of Human γD-Crystallin from Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations

A Kacirani, B Uralcan, TS Domingues… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Human γD-crystallin belongs to a crucial family of proteins known as crystallins located in
the fiber cells of the human lens. Since crystallins do not undergo any turnover after birth …

Lysosomal stress drives the release of pathogenic α-synuclein from macrophage lineage cells via the LRRK2-Rab10 pathway

T Abe, T Kuwahara, S Suenaga, M Sakurai, S Takatori… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Summary α-Synuclein and LRRK2 are associated with both familial and sporadic
Parkinson's disease (PD), although the mechanistic link between these two proteins has …

[HTML][HTML] Antibodies and α-synuclein: What to target against Parkinson's Disease?

DE Otzen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is strongly linked to the aggregation of the protein α-synuclein (α-
syn), an intrinsically disordered protein. However, strategies to combat PD by targeting the …