Structure, function and toxicity of alpha‐synuclein: the Bermuda triangle in synucleinopathies

A Villar‐Piqué, T Lopes da Fonseca… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of currently incurable neurodegenerative disorders
characterized by the misfolding and accumulation of alpha‐synuclein aggregates that are …

Alpha-synuclein: from early synaptic dysfunction to neurodegeneration

V Ghiglieri, V Calabrese, P Calabresi - Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last two decades, many experimental and clinical studies have provided solid
evidence that alpha-synuclein (α-syn), a small, natively unfolded protein, is closely related to …

Ion channel formation by amyloid-β42 oligomers but not amyloid-β40 in cellular membranes

DC Bode, MD Baker, JH Viles - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2017 - ASBMB
A central hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques
chiefly consisting of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides in the brain interstitium. Aβ largely exists in two …

α-Synuclein fibrils subvert lysosome structure and function for the propagation of protein misfolding between cells through tunneling nanotubes

A Dilsizoglu Senol, M Samarani, S Syan… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregates in specific brain regions is a hallmark of
synucleinopathies including Parkinson disease (PD). α-Syn aggregates propagate in a …

[HTML][HTML] Oligomeric α-Syn and SNARE complex proteins in peripheral extracellular vesicles of neural origin are biomarkers for Parkinson's disease

C Agliardi, M Meloni, FR Guerini, M Zanzottera… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood-based biomarkers are needed to be used as easy, reproducible, and non-invasive
tools for the diagnosis and prognosis of chronic neurodegenerative disorders including …

α-Synuclein oligomers induce glutamate release from astrocytes and excessive extrasynaptic NMDAR activity in neurons, thus contributing to synapse loss

D Trudler, S Sanz-Blasco, YS Eisele… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Synaptic and neuronal loss are major neuropathological characteristics of Parkinson's
disease. Misfolded protein aggregates in the form of Lewy bodies, comprised mainly of α …

Mimicking the mammalian plasma membrane: An overview of lipid membrane models for biophysical studies

A Luchini, G Vitiello - Biomimetics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cell membranes are very complex biological systems including a large variety of lipids and
proteins. Therefore, they are difficult to extract and directly investigate with biophysical …

Imaging Amyloid‐β Membrane Interactions: Ion‐Channel Pores and Lipid‐Bilayer Permeability in Alzheimer's Disease

JH Viles - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of the amyloid‐β peptides (Aβ) is central to the development of
Alzheimer's disease. The mechanism by which Aβ triggers a cascade of events that leads to …

Spreading of α-synuclein and tau: A systematic comparison of the mechanisms involved

E Vasili, A Dominguez-Meijide… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are age-associated
neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the misfolding and aggregation of alpha …

Lipids at the crossroad of α-synuclein function and dysfunction: biological and pathological implications

NP Alza, PA Iglesias González, MA Conde… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Since its discovery, the study of the biological role of α-synuclein and its pathological
implications has been the subject of increasing interest. The propensity to adopt different …