[HTML][HTML] Structural, morphological, and functional diversity of amyloid oligomers

L Breydo, VN Uversky - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Protein misfolding and aggregation are known to play a crucial role in a number of important
human diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prion, diabetes, cataracts, etc.) as well as in a …

Extracellular tau oligomers produce an immediate impairment of LTP and memory

M Fá, D Puzzo, R Piacentini, A Staniszewski… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Non-fibrillar soluble oligomeric forms of amyloid-β peptide (oAβ) and tau proteins are likely
to play a major role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The prevailing hypothesis on the disease …

Review on the applications of atomic force microscopy imaging in proteins

J Hu, M Gao, Z Wang, Y Chen - Micron, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein is an important component of human tissues and cells, which is closely related to
various life activities. Therefore, studying the conformation of proteins can not only provide …

Curcumin reduces α-synuclein induced cytotoxicity in Parkinson's disease cell model

MS Wang, S Boddapati, S Emadi, MR Sierks - BMC neuroscience, 2010 - Springer
Background Overexpression and abnormal accumulation of aggregated α-synuclein (αS)
have been linked to Parkinson's disease (PD) and other synucleinopathies. αS can misfold …

Trimeric tau is toxic to human neuronal cells at low nanomolar concentrations

H Tian, E Davidowitz, P Lopez, S Emadi… - … journal of cell …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), tau aggregates into fibrils and higher order neurofibrillary
tangles, a key histopathological feature of AD. However, soluble oligomeric tau species may …

Detecting morphologically distinct oligomeric forms of α-synuclein

S Emadi, S Kasturirangan, MS Wang, P Schulz… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Neuropathologic and genetics studies as well as transgenic animal models have provided
strong evidence linking misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein to the progression of …

CSF levels of oligomeric alpha-synuclein and beta-amyloid as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease

MR Sierks, G Chatterjee, C McGraw… - Integrative …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Protein misfolding and aggregation is a critically important feature in many devastating
neurodegenerative diseases, therefore characterization of the CSF concentration profiles of …

Physico-chemical determinants of soluble intrabody expression in mammalian cell cytoplasm

E Kvam, MR Sierks, CB Shoemaker… - … Engineering, Design & …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Soluble antibody fragments are desirable not only as potential therapeutic and diagnostic
agents for extracellular targets but also as 'intrabodies' for functional genomics, proteomics …

Nanobody specific for oligomeric beta-amyloid stabilizes nontoxic form

S Kasturirangan, L Li, S Emadi, S Boddapati… - Neurobiology of …, 2012 - Elsevier
While accumulation and deposition of beta amyloid (Aβ) is a primary pathological feature of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), increasing evidence has implicated small, soluble oligomeric …

Conformational targeting of fibrillar polyglutamine proteins in live cells escalates aggregation and cytotoxicity

E Kvam, BL Nannenga, MS Wang, Z Jia, MR Sierks… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Misfolding-and aggregation-prone proteins underlying Parkinson's,
Huntington's and Machado-Joseph diseases, namely α-synuclein, huntingtin, and ataxin-3 …