Intrinsically disordered proteins: emerging interaction specialists

P Tompa, E Schad, A Tantos, L Kalmar - Current opinion in structural …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Intrinsically disordered proteins mostly function by molecular recognition.•Post-
translational modifications regulate the interactions of IDPs.•Structural disorder can facilitate …

Metals and neuronal metal binding proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease

JS Cristóvão, R Santos… - Oxidative medicine and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent age‐related dementia affecting millions of
people worldwide. Its main pathological hallmark feature is the formation of insoluble protein …

The role of pro-inflammatory S100A9 in Alzheimer's disease amyloid-neuroinflammatory cascade

C Wang, AG Klechikov, AL Gharibyan… - Acta …, 2014 - Springer
Pro-inflammatory S100A9 protein is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to
inflammation-related neurodegeneration. Here, we provide insights into S100A9 specific …

Investigating the sequence determinants of the curling of amyloid fibrils using ovalbumin as a case study

JAJ Housmans, B Houben, M Monge-Morera… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Highly ordered, straight amyloid fibrils readily lend themselves to structure determination
techniques and have therefore been extensively characterized. However, the less ordered …

The neuronal S100B protein is a calcium-tuned suppressor of amyloid-β aggregation

JS Cristóvão, VK Morris, I Cardoso, SS Leal… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation and neuroinflammation are consistent features in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and strong candidates for the initiation of neurodegeneration. S100B is one of …

Zinc-binding metallophores protect Pseudomonas aeruginosa from calprotectin-mediated metal starvation

S Ammendola, V Secli, F Pacello… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known to exhibit considerable resistance to the antimicrobial
activity of the metal-sequestering protein calprotectin (CP). In this study, we demonstrate that …

Distribution and relative abundance of S100 proteins in the brain of the APP23 Alzheimer's disease model mice

S Hagmeyer, MA Romão, JS Cristóvão… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence links proteins of the S100 family to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD). S100 proteins are EF-hand calcium-binding proteins with intra-and …

Zinc binding to S100B affords regulation of trace metal homeostasis and excitotoxicity in the brain

S Hagmeyer, JS Cristóvão, JJE Mulvihill… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal metal ions such as zinc are essential for brain function. In particular synaptic
processes are tightly related to metal and protein homeostasis, for example through …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular S100A4 induces smooth muscle cell phenotypic transition mediated by RAGE

C Chaabane, CW Heizmann… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2015 - Elsevier
We identified S100A4 as a marker of rhomboid (R) smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in vitro (the
synthetic phenotype, typical of intimal SMCs) in the porcine coronary artery and of intimal …

[HTML][HTML] Tetramerization of the S100B chaperone spawns a Ca2+ independent regulatory surface that enhances anti-aggregation activity and client specificity

AJ Figueira, GG Moreira, J Saavedra, I Cardoso… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) hallmarks include the aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ), tau and
neuroinflammation promoted by several alarmins. Among these is S100B, a small astrocytic …