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 …

Autodock vina adopts more accurate binding poses but autodock4 forms better binding affinity

NT Nguyen, TH Nguyen, TNH Pham… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The binding pose and affinity between a ligand and enzyme are very important pieces of
information for computer-aided drug design. In the initial stage of a drug discovery project …

Self-Assembly of Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Peptides from Solution to Near In Vivo Conditions

PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the atomistic resolution changes during the self-assembly of amyloid
peptides or proteins is important to develop compounds or conditions to alter the …

Structures of the intrinsically disordered Aβ, tau and α-synuclein proteins in aqueous solution from computer simulations

PH Nguyen, P Derreumaux - Biophysical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play many biological roles in the human proteome
ranging from vesicular transport, signal transduction to neurodegenerative diseases. The Aβ …

Spontaneous formation of β-sheet nano-barrels during the early aggregation of Alzheimer's amyloid beta

Y Sun, A Kakinen, X Wan, N Moriarty, CPJ Hunt, Y Li… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Soluble low-molecular-weight oligomers formed during the early aggregation of amyloid
peptides have been hypothesized as a major toxic species of amyloidogenesis. Herein, we …

Recognition and Removal of Amyloid‐β by a Heteromultivalent Macrocyclic Coassembly: A Potential Strategy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

H Wang, XX Xu, YC Pan, YX Yan, XY Hu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The imbalance of amyloid‐β (Aβ) production and clearance causes aggregation of Aβ1‐42
monomers to form fibrils and amyloid plaques, which is an indispensable process in the …

Insights into the atomistic mechanisms of phosphorylation in disrupting liquid–liquid phase separation and aggregation of the FUS low-complexity domain

Z Lao, X Dong, X Liu, F Li, Y Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fused in sarcoma (FUS), a nuclear RNA binding protein, can not only undergo liquid–liquid
phase separation (LLPS) to form dynamic biomolecular condensates but also aggregate into …

Molecular dynamics simulations reveal the importance of amyloid-beta oligomer β-sheet edge conformations in membrane permeabilization

D Matthes, BL de Groot - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Oligomeric aggregates of the amyloid-beta peptide (1-42)(Aβ42) are regarded as a primary
cause of cytotoxicity related to membrane damage in Alzheimer's disease. However, a …

Molecular insights into the primary nucleation of polymorphic amyloid β dimers in DOPC lipid bilayer membrane

O Press‐Sandler, Y Miller - Protein Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is characterized by loss of memory cognitive and
behavioral deterioration. One of the hallmarks of AD is amyloid β (Aβ) plaques in the brain …

Putative structures of membrane-embedded amyloid β oligomers

A Sepehri, T Lazaridis - ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2022 - ACS Publications
Perturbation of cell membranes by amyloid β (Ab) peptide oligomers is one possible
mechanism of cytotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease, but the structure of such Ab–membrane …