A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic

PT Lansbury, HA Lashuel - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
The correlation between neurodegenerative disease and protein aggregation in the brain
has long been recognized, but a causal relationship has not been unequivocally …

Mechanism of cerebral β‐amyloid angiopathy: murine and cellular models

MC Herzig, WE Van Nostrand, M Jucker - Brain pathology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy of the β‐amyloid type (Aβ‐CAA) is a risk factor for hemorrhagic
stroke and independently is believed to contribute to dementia. Naturally occurring animal …

The'Arctic'APP mutation (E693G) causes Alzheimer's disease by enhanced Aβ protofibril formation

C Nilsberth, A Westlind-Danielsson, CB Eckman… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
Several pathogenic Alzheimer's disease (AD) mutations have been described, all of which
cause increased amyloid β-protein (Aβ) levels. Here we present studies of a pathogenic …

Curcumin has potent anti‐amyloidogenic effects for Alzheimer's β‐amyloid fibrils in vitro

K Ono, K Hasegawa, H Naiki… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibition of the accumulation of amyloid β‐peptide (Aβ) and the formation of β‐amyloid
fibrils (fAβ) from Aβ, as well as the destabilization of preformed fAβ in the central nervous …

Potent anti-amyloidogenic and fibril-destabilizing effects of polyphenols in vitro: implications for the prevention and therapeutics of Alzheimer's disease.

K Ono, Y Yoshiike, A Takashima… - Journal of …, 2003 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract Cerebral deposition of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) in the brain is an invariant feature of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). A consistent protective effect of wine consumption on AD has …

Opposing activities protect against age-onset proteotoxicity

E Cohen, J Bieschke, RM Perciavalle, JW Kelly, A Dillin - Science, 2006 - science.org
Aberrant protein aggregation is a common feature of late-onset neurodegenerative
diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, which is associated with the misassembly of the …

Aβ42 is essential for parenchymal and vascular amyloid deposition in mice

E McGowan, F Pickford, J Kim, L Onstead, J Eriksen… - Neuron, 2005 - cell.com
Considerable circumstantial evidence suggests that Aβ42 is the initiating molecule in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. However, the absolute requirement for Aβ42 for …

Seeding specificity in amyloid growth induced by heterologous fibrils

B O'Nuallain, AD Williams, P Westermark… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Over residues 15–36, which comprise the H-bonded core of the amyloid fibrils it forms, the
Alzheimer's disease plaque peptide amyloid β (Aβ) possesses a very similar sequence to …

Aβ40 inhibits amyloid deposition in vivo

J Kim, L Onstead, S Randle, R Price… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Numerous studies have established a pivotal role for Aβ42 in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
pathogenesis. In contrast, although Aβ40 is the predominant form of amyloid β (Aβ) …

Direct observation of amyloid fibril growth monitored by thioflavin T fluorescence* 210

T Ban, D Hamada, K Hasegawa, H Naiki… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
Real-time monitoring of fibril growth is essential to clarify the mechanism of amyloid fibril
formation. Thioflavin T (ThT) is a reagent known to become strongly fluorescent upon …