History and progress of hypotheses and clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease

PP Liu, Y Xie, XY Meng, JS Kang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive
memory loss along with neuropsychiatric symptoms and a decline in activities of daily life. Its …

Targeting Notch in oncology: the path forward

S Majumder, JS Crabtree, TE Golde… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Notch signalling is involved in many aspects of cancer biology, including angiogenesis,
tumour immunity and the maintenance of cancer stem-like cells. In addition, Notch can …

Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

D Lyumkis - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables structure determination of
macromolecular objects and their assemblies. Although the techniques have been …

Deep learning-based mixed-dimensional Gaussian mixture model for characterizing variability in cryo-EM

M Chen, SJ Ludtke - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Structural flexibility and/or dynamic interactions with other molecules is a critical aspect of
protein function. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides direct visualization of …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …

EMRinger: side chain–directed model and map validation for 3D cryo-electron microscopy

BA Barad, N Echols, RYR Wang, Y Cheng, F DiMaio… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require the development of
validation metrics to independently assess map quality and model geometry. We report …

Structures of the human Mediator and Mediator-bound preinitiation complex

X Chen, X Yin, J Li, Z Wu, Y Qi, X Wang, W Liu, Y Xu - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The multisubunit Mediator binds RNA polymerase II (Pol II), transduces
regulatory signals from transcription factors to Pol II, facilitates preinitiation complex (PIC) …

How cryo-EM is revolutionizing structural biology

XC Bai, G McMullan, SHW Scheres - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2015 - cell.com
For many years, structure determination of biological macromolecules by cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) was limited to large complexes or low-resolution models. With recent …

Structure of a eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel at near-atomic resolution

H Shen, Q Zhou, X Pan, Z Li, J Wu, N Yan - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels are responsible for the generation
and propagation of action potentials in excitable cells. They undergo voltage-dependent …

Amyloid beta: structure, biology and structure-based therapeutic development

G Chen, T Xu, Y Yan, Y Zhou, Y Jiang… - Acta pharmacologica …, 2017 - nature.com
Amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is produced through the proteolytic processing of a
transmembrane protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), by β-and γ-secretases. Aβ …