Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

KP Kepp, NK Robakis, PF Høilund-Carlsen, SL Sensi… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Results from recent clinical trials of antibodies that target amyloid-β (Aβ) for Alzheimer's
disease have created excitement and have been heralded as corroboration of the amyloid …

Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

Proteostasis of islet amyloid polypeptide: a molecular perspective of risk factors and protective strategies for type II diabetes

D Milardi, E Gazit, SE Radford, Y Xu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The possible link between hIAPP accumulation and β-cell death in diabetic patients has
inspired numerous studies focusing on amyloid structures and aggregation pathways of this …

Lipid-chaperone hypothesis: A common molecular mechanism of membrane disruption by intrinsically disordered proteins

MF Sciacca, F Lolicato, C Tempra… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of human diseases has been shown to be linked to aggregation and
amyloid formation by intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). Amylin, amyloid-β, and α …

Spike Protein Fragments Promote Alzheimer's Amyloidogenesis

S Cao, Z Song, J Rong, N Andrikopoulos… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of dementia inducing memory loss, cognitive
decline, and mortality among the aging population. While the amyloid aggregation of …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid-β oligomers have a profound detergent-like effect on lipid membrane bilayers, imaged by atomic force and electron microscopy

DC Bode, M Freeley, J Nield, M Palma… - Journal of biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
The ability of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) to disrupt membrane integrity and cellular homeostasis
is believed to be central to Alzheimer's disease pathology. Aβ is reported to have various …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid aggregates exert cell toxicity causing irreversible damages in the endoplasmic reticulum

M Matveyenka, S Rizevsky, D Kurouski - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amyloid oligomers and fibrils are protein aggregates that cause an onset and progression of
many neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes type 2 and systemic amyloidosis. Although a …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid growth and membrane damage: Current themes and emerging perspectives from theory and experiments on Aβ and hIAPP

MFM Sciacca, C Tempra, F Scollo, D Milardi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two incurable diseases
both hallmarked by an abnormal deposition of the amyloidogenic peptides Aβ and Islet …

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 …