Tau protein interaction partners and their roles in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

J Sinsky, K Pichlerova, J Hanes - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of
microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In …

[HTML][HTML] APOE in the normal brain

SA Flowers, GW Rebeck - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The APOE4 protein affects the primary neuropathological markers of Alzheimer's disease
(AD): amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and gliosis. These interactions have been …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondria-rough-ER contacts in the liver regulate systemic lipid homeostasis

I Anastasia, N Ilacqua, A Raimondi, P Lemieux… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Contacts between organelles create microdomains that play major roles in regulating key
intracellular activities and signaling pathways, but whether they also regulate systemic …

Considerations for extracellular vesicle and lipoprotein interactions in cell culture assays

S Busatto, Y Yang, D Iannotta… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With an exponential increase in extracellular vesicle (EV) studies in the past decade, focus
has been placed on standardization of experimental design to ensure inter‐study …

Structure-based mechanism and inhibition of cholesteryl ester transfer protein

H Xue, M Zhang, J Liu, J Wang, G Ren - Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cholesteryl ester transfer proteins (CETP) regulate plasma
cholesterol levels by transferring cholesteryl esters (CEs) among lipoproteins. Lipoprotein …

Molecular organization of the early stages of nucleosome phase separation visualized by cryo-electron tomography

M Zhang, C Díaz-Celis, B Onoa, C Cañari-Chumpitaz… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
It has been proposed that the intrinsic property of nucleosome arrays to undergo liquid-liquid
phase separation (LLPS) in vitro is responsible for chromatin domain organization in vivo …

LoTToR: an algorithm for missing-wedge correction of the low-tilt tomographic 3D reconstruction of a single-molecule structure

X Zhai, D Lei, M Zhang, J Liu, H Wu, Y Yu, L Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
A single-molecule three-dimensional (3D) structure is essential for understanding the
thermal vibrations and dynamics as well as the conformational changes during the chemical …

IgG antibody 3D structures and dynamics

JW Jay, B Bray, Y Qi, E Igbinigie, H Wu, J Li, G Ren - Antibodies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Antibodies are vital for human health because of their ability to function as nature's drugs by
protecting the body from infection. In recent decades, antibodies have been used as …

Three-dimensional structural dynamics of DNA origami Bennett linkages using individual-particle electron tomography

D Lei, AE Marras, J Liu, CM Huang, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Scaffolded DNA origami has proven to be a powerful and efficient technique to fabricate
functional nanomachines by programming the folding of a single-stranded DNA template …

O-glycosylation on cerebrospinal fluid and plasma apolipoprotein E differs in the lipid-binding domain

SA Flowers, OC Grant, RJ Woods, GW Rebeck - Glycobiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The O-glycoprotein apolipoprotein E (APOE), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease, associates with lipoproteins. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) APOE binds only high …