Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

1H-Detected Biomolecular NMR under Fast Magic-Angle Spinning

T Le Marchand, T Schubeis, M Bonaccorsi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Since the first pioneering studies on small deuterated peptides dating more than 20 years
ago, 1H detection has evolved into the most efficient approach for investigation of …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 phase separates into RNA-rich polymerase-containing condensates

A Savastano, A Ibáñez de Opakua, M Rankovic… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The etiologic agent of the Covid-19 pandemic is the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The viral membrane of SARS-CoV-2 surrounds a helical …

[HTML][HTML] Driving forces behind phase separation of the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

D Flores-Solis, IP Lushpinskaia, AA Polyansky… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Eukaryotic gene regulation and pre-mRNA transcription depend on the carboxy-terminal
domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase (Pol) II. Due to its highly repetitive, intrinsically disordered …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of RNA recognition by the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphoprotein

DC Dinesh, D Chalupska, J Silhan, E Koutna… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS-CoV-2 is a single-stranded positive-sense …

Atomic-resolution structure of a disease-relevant Aβ (1–42) amyloid fibril

MA Wälti, F Ravotti, H Arai, CG Glabe… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Amyloid-β (Aβ) is present in humans as a 39-to 42-amino acid residue metabolic product of
the amyloid precursor protein. Although the two predominant forms, Aβ (1–40) and Aβ (1 …

A single N‐terminal phosphomimic disrupts TDP‐43 polymerization, phase separation, and RNA splicing

A Wang, AE Conicella, HB Schmidt, EW Martin… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
TDP‐43 is an RNA‐binding protein active in splicing that concentrates into membraneless
ribonucleoprotein granules and forms aggregates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

Solid-state NMR: Methods for biological solids

S Ahlawat, KR Mote, NA Lakomek… - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy has
transformed from a spectroscopic technique investigating small molecules and industrial …

Accurate de novo design of hyperstable constrained peptides

G Bhardwaj, VK Mulligan, CD Bahl, JM Gilmore… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Naturally occurring, pharmacologically active peptides constrained with covalent crosslinks
generally have shapes that have evolved to fit precisely into binding pockets on their targets …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular structure of β-amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease brain tissue

JX Lu, W Qiang, WM Yau, CD Schwieters, SC Meredith… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
In vitro, β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides form polymorphic fibrils, with molecular structures that
depend on growth conditions, plus various oligomeric and protofibrillar aggregates. Here …