A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

Mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting for higher-order structure analysis: fundamentals and applications

XR Liu, MM Zhang, ML Gross - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins adopt different higher-order structures (HOS) to enable their unique biological
functions. Understanding the complexities of protein higher-order structures and dynamics …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

Advanced techniques for detecting protein misfolding and aggregation in cellular environments

Y Bai, S Zhang, H Dong, Y Liu, C Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation, a key contributor to the progression of numerous
neurodegenerative diseases, results in functional deficiencies and the creation of harmful …

Mass spectrometry methods for measuring protein stability

DD Vallejo, C Rojas Ramírez, KF Parson, Y Han… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry is a central technology in the life sciences, providing our most
comprehensive account of the molecular inventory of the cell. In parallel with developments …

[HTML][HTML] Visualizing and trapping transient oligomers in amyloid assembly pathways

EE Cawood, TK Karamanos, AJ Wilson… - Biophysical chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Oligomers which form during amyloid fibril assembly are considered to be key contributors
towards amyloid disease. However, understanding how such intermediates form, their …

Bridging protein structure, dynamics, and function using hydrogen/deuterium‐exchange mass spectrometry

EA Hodge, MA Benhaim, KK Lee - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Much of our understanding of protein structure and mechanistic function has been derived
from static high‐resolution structures. As structural biology has continued to evolve it has …

Applications of hydrogen/deuterium exchange MS from 2012 to 2014

GF Pirrone, RE Iacob, JR Engen - Analytical chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) detected by mass spectrometry (MS) is extraordinarily
useful in the study of many aspects of proteins, especially the analysis of protein …

Cu and Zn interactions with Aβ peptides: consequence of coordination on aggregation and formation of neurotoxic soluble Aβ oligomers

M Rana, AK Sharma - Metallomics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The coordination chemistry of transition metal ions (Fe, Cu, Zn) with the amyloid-β (Aβ)
peptides has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to its repercussions in …

The OPEP protein model: from single molecules, amyloid formation, crowding and hydrodynamics to DNA/RNA systems

F Sterpone, S Melchionna, P Tuffery… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The OPEP coarse-grained protein model has been applied to a wide range of applications
since its first release 15 years ago. The model, which combines energetic and structural …