Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

The role of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson's disease

X Du, X Xie, R Liu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
α-synuclein (α-syn) is a protein associated with the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease
(PD), the second most common neurodegeneration disease with no effective treatment …

The role of amyloid-β oligomers in toxicity, propagation, and immunotherapy

U Sengupta, AN Nilson, R Kayed - EBioMedicine, 2016 - thelancet.com
The incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is growing every day and finding an effective
treatment is becoming more vital. Amyloid-β (Aβ) has been the focus of research for several …

TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease

A Meneses, S Koga, J O'Leary, DW Dickson… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Transactive response DNA binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) is an intranuclear protein
encoded by the TARDBP gene that is involved in RNA splicing, trafficking, stabilization, and …

Kinetic diversity of amyloid oligomers

AJ Dear, TCT Michaels, G Meisl… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many
increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and …

Molecular interaction between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease through cross-seeding of protein misfolding

I Moreno-Gonzalez, G Edwards III, N Salvadores… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Numerous epidemiological studies have shown a significantly higher risk for development of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients affected by type 2 diabetes (T2D), but the molecular …

[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 …

Tau oligomers associate with inflammation in the brain and retina of tauopathy mice and in neurodegenerative diseases

AN Nilson, KC English, JE Gerson… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
It is well-established that inflammation plays an important role in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
and frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD). Inflammation and synapse loss occur in disease …

Heterotypic seeding of Tau fibrillization by pre-aggregated Abeta provides potent seeds for prion-like seeding and propagation of Tau-pathology in vivo

B Vasconcelos, IC Stancu, A Buist, M Bird, P Wang… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
Genetic, clinical, histopathological and biomarker data strongly support Beta-amyloid (Aβ)
induced spreading of Tau-pathology beyond entorhinal cortex (EC), as a crucial process in …

Dual‐functional, multi‐targeting GNNQQNY‐AIE conjugates as amyloid probes and amyloid modulators via amyloid cross‐seeding principle

Y Tang, D Zhang, X Gong… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid protein aggregation is associated with many neurodegenerative diseases,
including amyloid‐β (Aβ) in Alzheimer disease, human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) in …