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 …

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 …

Secondary nucleation in amyloid formation

M Törnquist, TCT Michaels, K Sanagavarapu… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleation of new peptide and protein aggregates on the surfaces of amyloid fibrils of the
same peptide or protein has emerged in the past two decades as a major pathway for both …

Atomic Resolution Structure of Monomorphic Aβ42 Amyloid Fibrils

MT Colvin, R Silvers, QZ Ni, TV Can… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Amyloid-β (Aβ) is a 39–42 residue protein produced by the cleavage of the amyloid
precursor protein (APP), which subsequently aggregates to form cross-β amyloid fibrils that …

Interrogating amyloid aggregates using fluorescent probes

A Aliyan, NP Cook, AA Martí - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Amyloids are a broad class of proteins and peptides that can misfold and assemble into long
unbranched fibrils with a cross-β conformation. These misfolding and aggregation events …

Molecular mechanisms of protein aggregation from global fitting of kinetic models

G Meisl, JB Kirkegaard, P Arosio, TCT Michaels… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
The elucidation of the molecular mechanisms by which soluble proteins convert into their
amyloid forms is a fundamental prerequisite for understanding and controlling disorders that …

On the lag phase in amyloid fibril formation

P Arosio, TPJ Knowles, S Linse - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of nanoscale amyloid fibrils from normally soluble peptides and proteins is a
common form of self-assembly phenomenon that has fundamental connections with …

Acceleration of α-synuclein aggregation by exosomes

M Grey, CJ Dunning, R Gaspar, C Grey… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
Exosomes are small vesicles released from cells into extracellular space. We have isolated
exosomes from neuroblastoma cells and investigated their influence on the aggregation of α …

A molecular chaperone breaks the catalytic cycle that generates toxic Aβ oligomers

SIA Cohen, P Arosio, J Presto… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent neurodegenerative disorder whose
pathogenesis has been associated with aggregation of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ42) …

Secondary nucleation of monomers on fibril surface dominates α-synuclein aggregation and provides autocatalytic amyloid amplification

R Gaspar, G Meisl, AK Buell, L Young… - Quarterly reviews of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by proteinaceous aggregates named Lewy
Bodies and Lewy Neurites containing α-synuclein fibrils. The underlying aggregation …