Second sphere interactions in amyloidogenic diseases

M Roy, AK Nath, I Pal, SG Dey - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Amyloids are protein aggregates bearing a highly ordered cross β structural motif, which
may be functional but are mostly pathogenic. Their formation, deposition in tissues and …

[HTML][HTML] The future of seed amplification assays and clinical trials

T Coysh, S Mead - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Prion-like seeded misfolding of host proteins is the leading hypothesised cause of
neurodegenerative diseases. The exploitation of the mechanism in the protein misfolding …

Prion-like properties of the mutant huntingtin protein in living organisms: the evidence and the relevance

M Alpaugh, HL Denis, F Cicchetti - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
If theories postulating that pathological proteins associated with neurodegenerative
disorders behave similarly to prions were initially viewed with reluctance, it is now well …

[HTML][HTML] Hunting for the cause: Evidence for prion-like mechanisms in Huntington's disease

KM Donnelly, CM Coleman, ML Fuller… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The hypothesis that pathogenic protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative
diseases spread from cell-to-cell in the brain in a manner akin to infectious prions has …

Longitudinal imaging highlights preferential basal ganglia circuit atrophy in Huntington's disease

CF Liu, L Younes, XJ Tong, JT Hinkle… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene (HTT),
coding for polyglutamine in the Huntingtin protein, with longer CAG repeats causing earlier …

[HTML][HTML] The polyglutamine domain is the primary driver of seeding in huntingtin aggregation

A Skeens, C Siriwardhana, SE Massinople… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by aggregation of
the huntingtin protein (htt) with an expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) domain into amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Non-cell autonomous and epigenetic mechanisms of Huntington's disease

C Kim, A Yousefian-Jazi, SH Choi, I Chang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of
CAG trinucleotide repeat located in the exon 1 of Huntingtin (HTT) gene in human …

[HTML][HTML] Amplification of neurotoxic HTTex1 assemblies in human neurons

A Chongtham, JM Isas, NK Pandey, A Rawat… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetically inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by
expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat in the exon-1 of huntingtin protein (HTT). The …

[HTML][HTML] Striatal Induction and Spread of the Huntington's Disease Protein: A Novel Rhes Route

S Subramaniam - Journal of Huntington's Disease, 2022 - content.iospress.com
The CAG/CAA expansion encoding polyQ huntingtin (mutant huntingtin [mHTT]) causes
Huntington's disease (HD), which is characterized by atrophy and loss of striatal medium …

Inhibitor-based modulation of huntingtin aggregation reduces fibril toxicity

G Jain, M Trombetta-Lima, I Matlahov, HT Ribas… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of the
polyglutamine (polyQ) segment in the exon 1 of the huntingtin (HttEx1) protein. This polyQ …