Protein misfolding, amyloid formation, and human disease: a summary of progress over the last decade

F Chiti, CM Dobson - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Peptides and proteins have been found to possess an inherent tendency to convert from
their native functional states into intractable amyloid aggregates. This phenomenon is …

Review of the current state of protein aggregation inhibition from a materials chemistry perspective: Special focus on polymeric materials

R Rajan, S Ahmed, N Sharma, N Kumar, A Debas… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein instability caused by exposure to external additives or severe stress may result in
different diseases. Of these diseases, many are triggered by protein misfolding and …

Protein misfolded oligomers: experimental approaches, mechanism of formation, and structure-toxicity relationships

F Bemporad, F Chiti - Chemistry & biology, 2012 - cell.com
The conversion of proteins from their native state to misfolded oligomers is associated with,
and thought to be the cause of, a number of human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease …

An evaluation of the delivery of medicines using drones

MSY Hii, P Courtney, PG Royall - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study tests the impact of drone transportation on the quality of a medicine. Modelling the
critical process parameters of drone flight, the effects of temperature and vibration on insulin …

Modelling amyloid fibril formation kinetics: mechanisms of nucleation and growth

JE Gillam, CE MacPhee - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Amyloid and amyloid-like fibrils are self-assembling protein nanostructures, of interest for
their robust material properties and inherent biological compatibility as well as their putative …

Electrospray–differential mobility analysis of bionanoparticles

S Guha, M Li, MJ Tarlov, MR Zachariah - Trends in biotechnology, 2012 - cell.com
Electrospray–differential mobility analysis (ES–DMA) is a versatile technique used to
aerosolize bionanoparticles and measure their electrical mobility at ambient conditions. ES …

Selective molecular recognition in amyloid growth and transmission and cross-species barriers

B Ma, R Nussinov - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Mutual conformational selection and population shift followed by minor induced-fit
optimization is the key mechanism in biomolecular recognition, and monomers and small …

Nanoparticles with a specific size and surface charge promote disruption of the secondary structure and amyloid-like fibrillation of human insulin under physiological …

A Sukhanova, S Poly, S Bozrova, É Lambert… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nanoparticles attract much interest as fluorescent labels for diagnostic and therapeutic tools,
although their applications are often hindered by size-and shape-dependent cytotoxicity …

Real-time size discrimination and elemental analysis of gold nanoparticles using ES-DMA coupled to ICP-MS

S Elzey, DH Tsai, LL Yu, MR Winchester… - Analytical and …, 2013 - Springer
We report the development of a hyphenated instrument with the capacity to quantitatively
characterize aqueous suspended gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) based on a combination of …

Tumor necrosis factor interaction with gold nanoparticles

DH Tsai, S Elzey, FW DelRio, AM Keene, KM Tyner… - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on a systematic investigation of molecular conjugation of tumor necrosis factor-α
(TNF) protein onto gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and the subsequent binding behavior to its …