Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

S Alberti, AA Hyman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless intracellular assemblies that often form via
liquid− liquid phase separation and have the ability to concentrate biopolymers. Research …

Secondary nucleation in amyloid formation

M Törnquist, TCT Michaels, K Sanagavarapu… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleation of new peptide and protein aggregates on the surfaces of amyloid fibrils of the
same peptide or protein has emerged in the past two decades as a major pathway for both …

Structure and aggregation mechanisms in amyloids

ZL Almeida, RMM Brito - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aggregation of a polypeptide chain into amyloid fibrils and their accumulation and
deposition into insoluble plaques and intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of several …

Aβ-oligomers: A potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

S Ghosh, R Ali, S Verma - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The cascade of amyloid formation relates to multiple complex events at the molecular level.
Previous research has established amyloid plaque deposition as the leading cause of …

Kinetic diversity of amyloid oligomers

AJ Dear, TCT Michaels, G Meisl… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many
increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and …

β‐Amyloid aggregation and heterogeneous nucleation

AK Srivastava, JM Pittman, J Zerweck… - Protein …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we consider the role of heterogeneous nucleation in β‐amyloid aggregation.
Heterogeneous nucleation is more common and occurs at lower levels of supersaturation …

Modulation of amyloid protein fibrillation by synthetic polymers: Recent advances in the context of neurodegenerative diseases

P Ghosh, P De - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation have attracted immense research interests due to their
connection with an array of degenerative diseases including neurodegenerative disorders …

Flanking regions, amyloid cores, and polymorphism: the potential interplay underlying structural diversity

AA Bhopatkar, R Kayed - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
The β-sheet–rich amyloid core is the defining feature of protein aggregates associated with
neurodegenerative disorders. Recent investigations have revealed that there exist multiple …

Amino acids and peptides as functional components in arylenediimide-based molecular architectonics

B Roy, T Govindaraju - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Molecular architectonics has its essence in custom design and engineering of molecular
assemblies by judicious exploitation of the noncovalent forces to construct ordered …

Amyloid oligomers as on-pathway precursors or off-pathway competitors of fibrils

M Muschol, W Hoyer - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid Diseases involve the growth of disease specific proteins into amyloid fibrils and
their deposition in protein plaques. Amyloid fibril formation is typically preceded by …