Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to understanding endoplasmic reticulum stress in metabolic disorders

IL Lemmer, N Willemsen, N Hilal, A Bartelt - Molecular metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The global rise of metabolic disorders, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and
cardiovascular disease, demands a thorough molecular understanding of the cellular …

Hydrogen-bonded organic framework biomimetic entrapment allowing non-native biocatalytic activity in enzyme

G Chen, L Tong, S Huang, S Huang, F Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nature programs the structural folding of an enzyme that allows its on-demand
biofunctionality; however, it is still a long-standing challenge to manually modulate an …

Self-assembling peptide and protein amyloids: from structure to tailored function in nanotechnology

G Wei, Z Su, NP Reynolds, P Arosio… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled peptide and protein amyloid nanostructures have traditionally been
considered only as pathological aggregates implicated in human neurodegenerative …

The endoplasmic reticulum: structure, function and response to cellular signaling

DS Schwarz, MD Blower - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2016 - Springer
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a large, dynamic structure that serves many roles in the
cell including calcium storage, protein synthesis and lipid metabolism. The diverse functions …

Protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases: implications and strategies

P Sweeney, H Park, M Baumann, J Dunlop… - Translational …, 2017 - Springer
A hallmark of neurodegenerative proteinopathies is the formation of misfolded protein
aggregates that cause cellular toxicity and contribute to cellular proteostatic collapse …

Food protein aggregation and its application

Z Zhu, AP Bassey, Y Cao, Y Ma, M Huang… - Food research …, 2022 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of protein aggregation in food science is very common, but the formation
mechanism is unclear. The formation of protein aggregates (PAs) is influenced by various …

Clearance systems in the brain—implications for Alzheimer disease

JM Tarasoff-Conway, RO Carare, RS Osorio… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Accumulation of toxic protein aggregates—amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and
hyperphosphorylated tau tangles—is the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD) …

Macromolecular crowding in vitro, in vivo, and in between

G Rivas, AP Minton - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Biochemical processes take place in heterogeneous and highly volume-occupied or
crowded environments that can considerably influence the reactivity and distribution of …

The Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery in neurodegenerative diseases

RE Lackie, A Maciejewski, VG Ostapchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the human brain is one of the critical features of
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembles of beta …