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 …

O-GlcNAcylation in health and neurodegenerative diseases

BE Lee, PG Suh, JI Kim - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
O-GlcNAcylation is a posttranslational modification that adds O-linked β-N-
acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) to serine or threonine residues of many proteins. This protein …

Recognition of the amyloid precursor protein by human γ-secretase

R Zhou, G Yang, X Guo, Q Zhou, J Lei, Y Shi - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid plaques in the brains
of patients. The primary components of amyloid plaques are β-amyloid peptides (Aβs) …

Sampling the conformational space of the catalytic subunit of human γ-secretase

X Bai, E Rajendra, G Yang, Y Shi, SHW Scheres - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Human γ-secretase is an intra-membrane protease that cleaves many different substrates.
Aberrant cleavage of Notch is implicated in cancer, while abnormalities in cutting amyloid …

An atomic structure of human γ-secretase

X Bai, C Yan, G Yang, P Lu, D Ma, L Sun, R Zhou… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Dysfunction of the intramembrane protease γ-secretase is thought to cause Alzheimer's
disease, with most mutations derived from Alzheimer's disease mapping to the catalytic …

Trafficking and proteolytic processing of APP

C Haass, C Kaether… - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Accumulations of insoluble deposits of amyloid β-peptide are major pathological hallmarks
of Alzheimer disease. Amyloid β-peptide is derived by sequential proteolytic processing from …

Comparison of ultracentrifugation, density gradient separation, and immunoaffinity capture methods for isolating human colon cancer cell line LIM1863-derived …

BJ Tauro, DW Greening, RA Mathias, H Ji… - Methods, 2012 - Elsevier
Exosomes are 40–100nm extracellular vesicles that are released from a multitude of cell
types, and perform diverse cellular functions including intercellular communication, antigen …

Targeting amyloidogenic processing of APP in Alzheimer's disease

J Zhao, X Liu, W Xia, Y Zhang, C Wang - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of senile dementia, characterized by
neurofibrillary tangle and amyloid plaque in brain pathology. Major efforts in AD drug were …

Alzheimer's disease and the amyloid-β peptide

MP Murphy, H LeVine III - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2010 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis is widely believed to be driven by the production
and deposition of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). For many years, investigators have been …

[HTML][HTML] The canonical Notch signaling pathway: unfolding the activation mechanism

R Kopan, MXG Ilagan - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Notch signaling regulates many aspects of metazoan development and tissue renewal.
Accordingly, the misregulation or loss of Notch signaling underlies a wide range of human …