[HTML][HTML] The antifungal antibiotic filipin as a diagnostic tool of cholesterol alterations in lysosomal storage diseases and neurodegenerative disorders

F Bruno, S Camuso, E Capuozzo, S Canterini - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cholesterol is the most considerable member of a family of polycyclic compounds
understood as sterols, and represents an amphipathic molecule, such as phospholipids …

[HTML][HTML] Capturing the conversion of the pathogenic alpha-1-antitrypsin fold by ATF6 enhanced proteostasis

S Sun, C Wang, P Zhao, GM Kline, JMD Grandjean… - Cell chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Genetic variation in alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) causes AAT deficiency (AATD) through liver
aggregation-associated gain-of-toxic pathology and/or insufficient AAT activity in the lung …

[HTML][HTML] Alterations in Proteostasis Mechanisms in Niemann–Pick Type C Disease

IV Servín Muñoz, D Ortuño-Sahagún… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Niemann–Pick Type C (NPC) represents an autosomal recessive disorder with an incidence
rate of 1 in 150,000 live births, classified within lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs). The …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial covariance analysis reveals the residue-by-residue thermodynamic contribution of variation to the CFTR fold

F Anglès, C Wang, WE Balch - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Although the impact of genome variation on the thermodynamic properties of function on the
protein fold has been studied in vitro, it remains a challenge to assign these relationships …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the host-pathogen evolutionary balance through Gaussian process modeling of SARS-CoV-2

S Loguercio, BC Calverley, C Wang, D Shak, P Zhao… - Patterns, 2023 - cell.com
We have developed a machine learning (ML) approach using Gaussian process (GP)-based
spatial covariance (SCV) to track the impact of spatial-temporal mutational events driving …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing genetic diversity captures the molecular basis of misfolding disease

P Zhao, C Wang, S Sun, X Wang, WE Balch - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic variation in human populations can result in the misfolding and aggregation of
proteins, giving rise to systemic and neurodegenerative diseases that require management …

[HTML][HTML] Triangulating variation in the population to define mechanisms for precision management of genetic disease

C Wang, F Anglès, WE Balch - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
To understand mechanistically how the protein fold is shaped by therapeutics to inform
precision management of disease, we developed variation-capture (VarC) mapping. VarC …

[HTML][HTML] Proteostasis regulators restore function of epilepsy-associated GABAA receptors

XJ Di, YJ Wang, E Cotter, M Wang, AL Whittsette… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Proteostasis deficiency in mutated ion channels leads to a variety of ion channel diseases
that are caused by excessive endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitating the epigenetic transformation contributing to cholesterol homeostasis using Gaussian process

C Wang, SM Scott, K Subramanian, S Loguercio… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To understand the impact of epigenetics on human misfolding disease, we apply Gaussian-
process regression (GPR) based machine learning (ML)(GPR-ML) through variation spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Image-based screen capturing misfolding status of Niemann-Pick type C1 identifies potential candidates for chaperone drugs

R Shioi, F Karaki, H Yoshioka, T Noguchi-Yachide… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Niemann-Pick disease type C is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
massive intracellular accumulation of cholesterol. In most cases, loss-of-function mutations …