DEER distance measurements on proteins

G Jeschke - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Distance distributions between paramagnetic centers in the range of 1.8 to 6 nm in
membrane proteins and up to 10 nm in deuterated soluble proteins can be measured by the …

[HTML][HTML] α-Synuclein misfolding and Parkinson's disease

L Breydo, JW Wu, VN Uversky - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2012 - Elsevier
Substantial evidence links α-synuclein, a small highly conserved presynaptic protein with
unknown function, to both familial and sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD). α-Synuclein has …

Cryo-EM structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils

R Guerrero-Ferreira, NMI Taylor, D Mona, P Ringler… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neuropathological disorder that belongs to the class of
synucleinopathies, in which the protein alpha-synuclein is found at abnormally high …

Structure of the toxic core of α-synuclein from invisible crystals

JA Rodriguez, MI Ivanova, MR Sawaya, D Cascio… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The protein α-synuclein is the main component of Lewy bodies, the neuron-associated
aggregates seen in Parkinson disease and other neurodegenerative pathologies. An 11 …

A short motif in the N-terminal region of α-synuclein is critical for both aggregation and function

CPA Doherty, SM Ulamec, R Maya-Martinez… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Aggregation of human α-synuclein (αSyn) is linked to Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology.
The central region of the αSyn sequence contains the non-amyloid β-component (NAC) …

Direct observation of the three regions in α-synuclein that determine its membrane-bound behaviour

G Fusco, A De Simone, T Gopinath, V Vostrikov… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract α-synuclein (αS) is a protein involved in neurotransmitter release in presynaptic
terminals, and whose aberrant aggregation is associated with Parkinson's disease. In …

PED in 2024: improving the community deposition of structural ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins

H Ghafouri, T Lazar, A Del Conte… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Protein Ensemble Database (PED)(URL: https://proteinensemble. org) is the
primary resource for depositing structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins. This …

Structural basis of synaptic vesicle assembly promoted by α-synuclein

G Fusco, T Pape, AD Stephens, P Mahou… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract α-synuclein (αS) is an intrinsically disordered protein whose fibrillar aggregates are
the major constituents of Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease. Although the specific function …

Impaired intracellular trafficking defines early Parkinson's disease

BHM Hunn, SJ Cragg, JP Bolam, MG Spillantini… - Trends in …, 2015 - cell.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an insidious and incurable neurodegenerative disease, and
represents a significant cost to individuals, carers, and ageing societies. It is defined at post …

The IDP-Specific Force Field ff14IDPSFF Improves the Conformer Sampling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

D Song, R Luo, HF Chen - Journal of chemical information and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions do not have a fixed
tertiary structure but play key roles in signal regulation, molecule recognition, and drug …