Review on Alzheimer's disease: inhibition of amyloid beta and tau tangle formation

H Ashrafian, EH Zadeh, RH Khan - International journal of biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is reported that approximately 40 million people are suffering from dementia, globally.
Dementia is a group of symptoms that affect neurons and cause some mental disorders …

[HTML][HTML] α-Synuclein misfolding and Parkinson's disease

L Breydo, JW Wu, VN Uversky - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2012 - Elsevier
Substantial evidence links α-synuclein, a small highly conserved presynaptic protein with
unknown function, to both familial and sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD). α-Synuclein has …

Mutation in the α-synuclein gene identified in families with Parkinson's disease

MH Polymeropoulos, C Lavedan, E Leroy, SE Ide… - science, 1997 - science.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder with a lifetime incidence
of approximately 2 percent. A pattern of familial aggregation has been documented for the …

Aggregation of alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies of sporadic Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

M Baba, S Nakajo, PH Tu, T Tomita… - The American journal …, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lewy bodies (LBs) are hallmark lesions of degenerating neurons in the brains of patients
with Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Recently, a point …

Mice lacking α-synuclein display functional deficits in the nigrostriatal dopamine system

A Abeliovich, Y Schmitz, I Fariñas, D Choi-Lundberg… - Neuron, 2000 - cell.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is a 14 kDa protein of unknown function that has been
implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we show that α-Syn …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease: alterations in iron and redox biology as a key to unlock therapeutic strategies

L Ma, MG Azad, M Dharmasivam, V Richardson… - Redox biology, 2021 - Elsevier
A plethora of studies indicate that iron metabolism is dysregulated in Parkinson's disease
(PD). The literature reveals well-documented alterations consistent with established dogma …

α-Synuclein aggregation is triggered by oligomeric amyloid-β 42 via heterogeneous primary nucleation

DM Vadukul, M Papp, RJ Thrush, J Wang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of cases where amyloids of different proteins are found in the same
patient are being reported. This observation complicates diagnosis and clinical intervention …

The synucleins: a family of proteins involved in synaptic function, plasticity, neurodegeneration and disease

DF Clayton, JM George - Trends in neurosciences, 1998 - cell.com
Synuclein proteins are produced, in vertebrates, by three genes. They share structural
resemblance to apolipoproteins, but are abundant in the neuronal cytosol and present in …

Glial cytoplasmic inclusions in white matter oligodendrocytes of multiple system atrophy brains contain insoluble α‐synuclein

P Tu, JE Galvin, M Baba, B Giasson… - Annals of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, α‐synuclein was shown to be a structural component of the filaments in Lewy
bodies (LBs) of Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with LBs (DLB) as well as the LB variant …

Proteasomal inhibition by α-synuclein filaments and oligomers

E Lindersson, R Beedholm, P Højrup, T Moos… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
A unifying feature of many neurodegenerative disorders is the accumulation of
polyubiquitinated protein inclusions in dystrophic neurons, eg containing α-synuclein, which …