BACE1 inhibitors: Current status and future directions in treating Alzheimer's disease

NM Moussa‐Pacha, SM Abdin, HA Omar… - Medicinal research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder
with no current cure. One of the important therapeutic approaches of AD is the inhibition of β …

The role of amyloid-β oligomers in toxicity, propagation, and immunotherapy

U Sengupta, AN Nilson, R Kayed - EBioMedicine, 2016 - thelancet.com
The incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is growing every day and finding an effective
treatment is becoming more vital. Amyloid-β (Aβ) has been the focus of research for several …

Amyloid beta: structure, biology and structure-based therapeutic development

G Chen, T Xu, Y Yan, Y Zhou, Y Jiang… - Acta pharmacologica …, 2017 - nature.com
Amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) is produced through the proteolytic processing of a
transmembrane protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), by β-and γ-secretases. Aβ …

Soluble amyloid-β oligomers as synaptotoxins leading to cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

ST Ferreira, MV Lourenco, MM Oliveira… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, and affects
millions of people worldwide. As the number of AD cases continues to increase in both …

Effects of in vivo conditions on amyloid aggregation

MC Owen, D Gnutt, M Gao, SKTS Wärmländer… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the grand challenges of biophysical chemistry is to understand the principles that
govern protein misfolding and aggregation, which is a highly complex process that is …

Screening and classifying small-molecule inhibitors of amyloid formation using ion mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry

LM Young, JC Saunders, RA Mahood, CH Revill… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The search for therapeutic agents that bind specifically to precursor protein conformations
and inhibit amyloid assembly is an important challenge. Identifying such inhibitors is difficult …

Mesenchymal stem cells and cell-derived extracellular vesicles protect hippocampal neurons from oxidative stress and synapse damage induced by amyloid-β …

MA de Godoy, LM Saraiva, LRP de Carvalho… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a disabling and highly prevalent neurodegenerative condition,
for which there are no effective therapies. Soluble oligomers of the amyloid-β peptide (AβOs) …

Small molecule inhibitors of aggregation indicate that amyloid β oligomerization and fibrillization pathways are independent and distinct

M Necula, R Kayed, S Milton, CG Glabe - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2007 - ASBMB
Alzheimer disease is characterized by the abnormal aggregation of amyloid β peptide into
extracellular fibrillar deposits known as amyloid plaques. Soluble oligomers have been …

Oligomeric intermediates in amyloid formation: structure determination and mechanisms of toxicity

M Fändrich - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Oligomeric intermediates are non-fibrillar polypeptide assemblies that occur during amyloid
fibril formation and that are thought to underlie the aetiology of amyloid diseases, such as …

FNDC5/Irisin system in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases: update and novel perspective

P Pignataro, M Dicarlo, R Zerlotin, C Zecca… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Irisin, the circulating peptide originating from fibronectin type III domain-containing protein 5
(FNDC5), is mainly expressed by muscle fibers under peroxisome proliferator-activated …