Metals and neuronal metal binding proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease

JS Cristóvão, R Santos… - Oxidative medicine and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent age‐related dementia affecting millions of
people worldwide. Its main pathological hallmark feature is the formation of insoluble protein …

The neuronal S100B protein is a calcium-tuned suppressor of amyloid-β aggregation

JS Cristóvão, VK Morris, I Cardoso, SS Leal… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation and neuroinflammation are consistent features in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and strong candidates for the initiation of neurodegeneration. S100B is one of …

Distribution and relative abundance of S100 proteins in the brain of the APP23 Alzheimer's disease model mice

S Hagmeyer, MA Romão, JS Cristóvão… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence links proteins of the S100 family to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD). S100 proteins are EF-hand calcium-binding proteins with intra-and …

Zinc binding to S100B affords regulation of trace metal homeostasis and excitotoxicity in the brain

S Hagmeyer, JS Cristóvão, JJE Mulvihill… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal metal ions such as zinc are essential for brain function. In particular synaptic
processes are tightly related to metal and protein homeostasis, for example through …

[HTML][HTML] Tetramerization of the S100B chaperone spawns a Ca2+ independent regulatory surface that enhances anti-aggregation activity and client specificity

AJ Figueira, GG Moreira, J Saavedra, I Cardoso… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) hallmarks include the aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ), tau and
neuroinflammation promoted by several alarmins. Among these is S100B, a small astrocytic …

Computational analysis of the interactions between the S100B extracellular chaperone and its amyloid β peptide client

FEP Rodrigues, AJ Figueira, CM Gomes… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
S100B is an astrocytic extracellular Ca2+-binding protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease,
whose role as a holdase-type chaperone delaying Aβ42 aggregation and toxicity was …

Targeting S100B with peptides encoding intrinsic aggregation-prone sequence segments

JS Cristovao, MA Romao, R Gallardo, J Schymkowitz… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
S100 proteins assume a diversity of oligomeric states including large order self-assemblies,
with an impact on protein structure and function. Previous work has uncovered that S100 …

Preparation of amyloidogenic aggregates from EF-hand β-parvalbumin and S100 proteins

J Martínez, JS Cristovao, R Sanchez, M Gasset… - … Proteins: Methods and …, 2018 - Springer
Proteins containing EF-hand helix-loop-helix-binding motifs play essential roles in calcium
homeostasis and signaling pathways. These proteins have considerable structural and …