Revisiting the grammar of Tau aggregation and pathology formation: how new insights from brain pathology are shaping how we study and target Tauopathies

G Limorenko, HA Lashuel - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Converging evidence continues to point towards Tau aggregation and pathology formation
as central events in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other Tauopathies …

Opportunities and challenges of alpha-synuclein as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies

P Magalhães, HA Lashuel - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common progressive
neurodegenerative disease, develops and progresses for 10–15 years before the clinical …

Posttranslational modifications mediate the structural diversity of tauopathy strains

T Arakhamia, CE Lee, Y Carlomagno, M Kumar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Tau aggregation into insoluble filaments is the defining pathological hallmark of tauopathies.
However, it is not known what controls the formation and templated seeding of strain-specific …

Alpha-synuclein research: defining strategic moves in the battle against Parkinson's disease

LMA Oliveira, T Gasser, R Edwards… - npj Parkinson's …, 2021 - nature.com
With the advent of the genetic era in Parkinson's disease (PD) research in 1997, α-synuclein
was identified as an important player in a complex neurodegenerative disease that affects> …

Chemoenzymatic semisynthesis of proteins

RE Thompson, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein semisynthesis—defined herein as the assembly of a protein from a combination of
synthetic and recombinant fragments—is a burgeoning field of chemical biology that has …

Implication of alpha-synuclein phosphorylation at S129 in synucleinopathies: what have we learned in the last decade?

A Oueslati - Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Abnormal accumulation of proteinaceous intraneuronal inclusions called Lewy bodies (LBs)
is the neurpathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

The roles of post-translational modifications on α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's diseases

J Zhang, X Li, JD Li - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Although the
pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease is not entirely clear, the aberrant aggregation of α …

How is alpha‐synuclein cleared from the cell?

L Stefanis, E Emmanouilidou… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The levels and conformers of alpha‐synuclein are critical in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's
Disease and related synucleinopathies. Homeostatic mechanisms in protein degradation …

O-GlcNAc modification blocks the aggregation and toxicity of the protein α-synuclein associated with Parkinson's disease

NP Marotta, YH Lin, YE Lewis, MR Ambroso… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Several aggregation-prone proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases can be
modified by O-linked N-acetyl-glucosamine (O-GlcNAc) in vivo. One of these proteins, α …