Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development

H Ausserwöger, MM Schneider, TW Herling… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are highly potent therapeutic scaffolds with more than a hundred different
products approved on the market. Successful development of antibody-based drugs …

Stability matters, too–the thermodynamics of amyloid fibril formation

AK Buell - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid fibrils are supramolecular homopolymers of proteins that play important roles in
biological functions and disease. These objects have received an exponential increase in …

The AAA+ chaperone VCP disaggregates Tau fibrils and generates aggregate seeds in a cellular system

I Saha, P Yuste-Checa, M Da Silva Padilha… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid-like aggregates of the microtubule-associated protein Tau are associated with
several neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease. The existence of …

Molecular mechanisms of amyloid formation in living systems

T Sinnige - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Fibrillar protein aggregation is a hallmark of a variety of human diseases. Examples include
the deposition of amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease, and that of α-synuclein in …

LAG3 is not expressed in human and murine neurons and does not modulate α‐synucleinopathies

M Emmenegger, E De Cecco… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
While the initial pathology of Parkinson's disease and other α‐synucleinopathies is often
confined to circumscribed brain regions, it can spread and progressively affect adjacent and …

Protein disaggregation machineries in the human cytosol

A Wentink, R Rosenzweig - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Proteins carry out the vast majority of functions in cells, but can only do so when properly
folded. Following stress or mutation, proteins can lose their proper fold, resulting in …

Small molecules disaggregate alpha-synuclein and prevent seeding from patient brain-derived fibrils

KA Murray, CJ Hu, H Pan, J Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The amyloid aggregation of alpha-synuclein within the brain is associated with the
pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related synucleinopathies, including …

Rational design of functional amyloid fibrillar assemblies

X Wang, S Zhang, J Zhang, Y Wang, X Jiang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid fibrillar assemblies, originally identified as pathological entities in
neurodegenerative diseases, have been widely adopted by various proteins to fulfill diverse …

Protein amyloid aggregate: Structure and function

Q Xu, Y Ma, Y Sun, D Li, X Zhang, C Liu - Aggregate, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein amyloid aggregation has been widely observed to occur and plays important roles in
both physiological processes and pathological diseases. Remarkably, amyloid aggregates …

Design of amyloidogenic peptide traps

DD Sahtoe, EA Andrzejewska, HL Han… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Segments of proteins with high β-strand propensity can self-associate to form amyloid fibrils
implicated in many diseases. We describe a general approach to bind such segments in β …