Cellular protein aggregates: formation, biological effects, and ways of elimination

JH Wen, XH He, ZS Feng, DY Li, JX Tang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The accumulation of protein aggregates is the hallmark of many neurodegenerative
diseases. The dysregulation of protein homeostasis (or proteostasis) caused by acute …

RNA: The Unsuspected Conductor in the Orchestra of Macromolecular Crowding

E Zacco, L Broglia, M Kurihara, M Monti… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This comprehensive Review delves into the chemical principles governing RNA-mediated
crowding events, commonly referred to as granules or biological condensates. We explore …

The ALS/FTD-related C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion forms RNA condensates through multimolecular G-quadruplexes

F Raguseo, Y Wang, J Li, M Petrić Howe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are
neurodegenerative diseases that exist on a clinico-pathogenetic spectrum, designated …

Identification and validation of extracellular vesicle reference genes for the normalization of RT‐qPCR data

C Pinheiro, N Guilbert, L Lippens… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) contain a plethora of biomolecules, including nucleic acids, with
diverse diagnostic and therapeutic application potential. Although reverse transcription …

Interactions of amyloid coaggregates with biomolecules and its relevance to neurodegeneration

K Murakami, K Ono - The FASEB Journal, 2022 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins is a pathological hallmark of various
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and …

Long-range DNA interactions: Inter-molecular G-quadruplexes and their potential biological relevance

D Liano, L Monti, S Chowdhury, F Raguseo… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Guanine-rich DNA sequences are known to fold into secondary structures called G-
quadruplexes (G4s), which can form from either individual DNA strands (intra-molecular) or …

Lsm7 phase-separated condensates trigger stress granule formation

M Lindström, L Chen, S Jiang, D Zhang, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Stress granules (SGs) are non-membranous organelles facilitating stress responses and
linking the pathology of age-related diseases. In a genome-wide imaging-based phenomic …

Modulation of the conformational space of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA quadruplex RG‐1 by cellular components and the amyloidogenic peptides α‐Synuclein and hIAPP

SK Mukherjee, JM Knop… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Given the emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐
2), which particularly threatens older people with comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus …

Prion‐like proteins: from computational approaches to proteome‐wide analysis

M Gil‐Garcia, V Iglesias, I Pallarès, S Ventura - FEBS open bio, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Prions are self‐perpetuating proteins able to switch between a soluble state and an
aggregated‐and‐transmissible conformation. These proteinaceous entities have been …

[HTML][HTML] The prion protein and its ligands: Insights into structure-function relationships

M Shafiq, S Da Vela, L Amin, N Younas… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prion protein is a multifunctional protein that exists in at least two different folding states.
It is subject to diverse proteolytic processing steps that lead to prion protein fragments some …