Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloids

SHW Scheres, B Ryskeldi-Falcon, M Goedert - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal assembly of tau, α-synuclein, TDP-43 and amyloid-β proteins into amyloid
filaments defines most human neurodegenerative diseases. Genetics provides a direct link …

Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer disease—one peptide, two pathways

SM Greenberg, BJ Bacskai… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The shared role of amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and
Alzheimer disease (AD) is arguably the clearest instance of crosstalk between …

Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Apolipoprotein E aggregation in microglia initiates Alzheimer's disease pathology by seeding β-amyloidosis

S Kaji, SA Berghoff, L Spieth, L Schlaphoff, AO Sasmita… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
The seeded growth of pathogenic protein aggregates underlies the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how this pathological cascade is initiated is not fully …

Progression of cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a pathophysiological framework

EA Koemans, JP Chhatwal, SJ van Veluw… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which is defined by cerebrovascular deposition of amyloid β,
is a common age-related small vessel pathology associated with intracerebral haemorrhage …

Loss of TREM2 function increases amyloid seeding but reduces plaque-associated ApoE

S Parhizkar, T Arzberger, M Brendel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coding variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are
associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). We demonstrate that amyloid plaque …