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 …

Proteomics approaches for biomarker and drug target discovery in ALS and FTD

TJ Hedl, R San Gil, F Cheng, SL Rayner… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are increasing in prevalence but lack targeted therapeutics …

Susceptibility of Mutant SOD1 to Form a Destabilized Monomer Predicts Cellular Aggregation and Toxicity but Not In vitro Aggregation Propensity

L McAlary, JA Aquilina, JJ Yerbury - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by
the rapid and progressive degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons in the spinal …

[HTML][HTML] Small heat shock proteins: multifaceted proteins with important implications for life

S Carra, S Alberti, JLP Benesch, W Boelens… - Cell Stress and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Small Heat Shock Proteins (sHSPs) evolved early in the history of life; they are
present in archaea, bacteria, and eukaryota. sHSPs belong to the superfamily of molecular …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: proteins, proteostasis, prions, and promises

L McAlary, YL Chew, JS Lum, NJ Geraghty… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the progressive degeneration of the
motor neurons that innervate muscle, resulting in gradual paralysis and culminating in the …

BAG3 Pro209 mutants associated with myopathy and neuropathy relocate chaperones of the CASA-complex to aggresomes

E Adriaenssens, B Tedesco, L Mediani… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Three missense mutations targeting the same proline 209 (Pro209) codon in the co-
chaperone Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) have been reported to cause distal …

Clusterin protects neurons against intracellular proteotoxicity

JM Gregory, DR Whiten, RA Brown, TP Barros… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2017 - Springer
It is now widely accepted in the field that the normally secreted chaperone clusterin is
redirected to the cytosol during endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, although the …

Most myopathic lamin variants aggregate: A functional genomics approach for assessing variants of uncertain significance

CL Anderson, ER Langer, TC Routes… - NPJ Genomic …, 2021 - nature.com
Hundreds of LMNA variants have been associated with several distinct disease phenotypes.
However, genotype–phenotype relationships remain largely undefined and the impact for …

Unbiased Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics of Cells Expressing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Mutations in CCNF Reveals Activation of the Apoptosis …

F Cheng, A De Luca, AL Hogan, SL Rayner… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The past decade has seen a rapid acceleration in the discovery of new genetic causes of
ALS, with more than 20 putative ALS-causing genes now cited. These genes encode …

DNAJB chaperones suppress destabilised protein aggregation via a region distinct from that used to inhibit amyloidogenesis

S McMahon, S Bergink, HH Kampinga… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Disturbances to protein homeostasis (proteostasis) can lead to protein aggregation and
inclusion formation, processes associated with a variety of neurodegenerative disorders …