The amyloid-β pathway in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, J Hardy, K Blennow, C Chen, G Perry… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in molecular medicine have positioned the amyloid-β (Aβ) pathway at the
center of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. While the detailed molecular …

The amyloid beta peptide: a chemist's perspective. Role in Alzheimer's and fibrillization

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the role of fibrillization of the amyloid β (Aβ)-peptide in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The perspective is that of a physical chemist, and one aim is to …

Proliferation of amyloid-β42 aggregates occurs through a secondary nucleation mechanism

SIA Cohen, S Linse, LM Luheshi… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The generation of toxic oligomers during the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide Aβ42
into amyloid fibrils and plaques has emerged as a central feature of the onset and …

CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

S Janelidze, H Zetterberg, N Mattsson… - Annals of clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) must be improved before widespread clinical use. This study aimed to …

Differences in nucleation behavior underlie the contrasting aggregation kinetics of the Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides

G Meisl, X Yang, E Hellstrand… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The two major forms of the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide found in plaques in patients suffering
from Alzheimer's disease, Aβ40 and Aβ42, only differ by two amino acids in the C-terminal …

Neuropathology and biochemistry of Aβ and its aggregates in Alzheimer's disease

DR Thal, J Walter, TC Saido, M Fändrich - Acta neuropathologica, 2015 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by β-amyloid plaques and intraneuronal τ
aggregation usually associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Both β-amyloid …

The extracellular chaperone clusterin sequesters oligomeric forms of the amyloid-β1−40 peptide

P Narayan, A Orte, RW Clarke, B Bolognesi… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
In recent genome-wide association studies, the extracellular chaperone protein, clusterin,
has been identified as a newly-discovered risk factor in Alzheimer's disease. We have …

Aβ42 and Aβ40: similarities and differences

T Qiu, Q Liu, YX Chen, YF Zhao… - Journal of peptide …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The abnormal accumulation of amyloid‐β (Aβ) peptide in the brain is one of the most
important hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. Aβ is an aggregation‐prone and toxic …

Small heat shock proteins potentiate amyloid dissolution by protein disaggregases from yeast and humans

ML Duennwald, AL Echeverria, J Shorter - PLoS biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
How small heat shock proteins (sHsps) might empower proteostasis networks to control
beneficial prions or disassemble pathological amyloid is unknown. Here, we establish that …

Advances in mass spectrometry to unravel the structure and function of protein condensates

C Sahin, A Leppert, M Landreh - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Membrane-less organelles assemble through liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of
partially disordered proteins into highly specialized microenvironments. Currently, it is …