Chaperones in polyglutamine aggregation: beyond the Q-stretch

EFE Kuiper, EP De Mattos, LB Jardim… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) stretches in at least nine unrelated proteins lead to
inherited neuronal dysfunction and degeneration. The expansion size in all diseases …

The Extent of Human Apolipoprotein AI Lipidation Strongly Affects the β-Amyloid Efflux Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in vitro

R Dal Magro, S Simonelli, A Cox, B Formicola… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Much evidence suggests a protective role of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and its major
apolipoprotein apoA-I, in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The biogenesis of nascent HDL derived …

Free energy landscape of siRNA-polycation complexation: Elucidating the effect of molecular geometry, polymer flexibility, and charge neutralization

G Grasso, MA Deriu, V Patrulea, G Borchard, M Möller… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The success of medical threatments with DNA and silencing interference RNA is strongly
related to the design of efficient delivery technologies. Cationic polymers represent an …

Insights into the effect of the G245S single point mutation on the structure of p53 and the binding of the protein to DNA

MG Lepre, SI Omar, G Grasso, U Morbiducci, MA Deriu… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
The transcription factor p53 is a potent tumor suppressor dubbed as the “guardian of the
genome” because of its ability to orchestrate protective biological outputs in response to a …

Toward the design and development of peptidomimetic inhibitors of the Ataxin-1 aggregation pathway

M Miceli, MA Deriu, G Grasso - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 is a degenerative disorder caused by polyglutamine
expansions and aggregation of Ataxin-1. The interaction between Capicua (CIC) and the …

In silico investigation of Alsin RLD conformational dynamics and phosphoinositides binding mechanism

M Cannariato, M Miceli, MA Deriu - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Alsin is a protein known for its major role in neuronal homeostasis and whose mutation is
associated with early-onset neurodegenerative diseases. It has been shown that its …

[HTML][HTML] Studying the collective motions of the adenosine A2A receptor as a result of ligand binding using principal component analysis

M Martínez-Archundia, J Correa-Basurto… - Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Adenosine receptors (ARs) belong to family A of GPCRs that are involved in many diseases,
including cerebral and cardiac ischemic diseases, immune and inflammatory disorders, etc …

Destabilizing the AXH tetramer by mutations: mechanisms and potential antiaggregation strategies

G Grasso, U Morbiducci, D Massai, JA Tuszynski… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
The AXH domain of protein Ataxin 1 is thought to play a key role in the misfolding and
aggregation pathway responsible for Spinocerebellar ataxia 1. For this reason, a molecular …

Aminoacid substitutions in the glycine zipper affect the conformational stability of amyloid beta fibrils

G Grasso, L Leanza, U Morbiducci… - Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The aggregation of amyloid-beta peptides is associated with the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease. The hydrophobic core of the amyloid beta sequence contains a GxxxG …

Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of the Josephin Domain closed arrangement: evidences from replica exchange molecular dynamics

G Grasso, JA Tuszynski, U Morbiducci, G Licandro… - Biology direct, 2017 - Springer
Background Molecular phenomena driving pathological aggregation in neurodegenerative
diseases are not completely understood yet. Peculiar is the case of Spinocerebellar Ataxia 3 …