Self-assembling peptide-based building blocks in medical applications

H Acar, S Srivastava, EJ Chung… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Peptides and peptide-conjugates, comprising natural and synthetic building blocks, are an
increasingly popular class of biomaterials. Self-assembled nanostructures based on …

Alzheimer's disease: How metal ions define β-amyloid function

KP Kepp - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease is increasingly recognized to be linked to the function and status of
metal ions, and recently, the amyloid hypothesis has been strongly intertwined with the …

Lipid-chaperone hypothesis: A common molecular mechanism of membrane disruption by intrinsically disordered proteins

MF Sciacca, F Lolicato, C Tempra… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of human diseases has been shown to be linked to aggregation and
amyloid formation by intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). Amylin, amyloid-β, and α …

Structural differences in amyloid-β fibrils from brains of nondemented elderly individuals and Alzheimer's disease patients

U Ghosh, WM Yau, J Collinge… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Although amyloid plaques composed of fibrillar amyloid-β (Aβ) assemblies are a diagnostic
hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), quantities of amyloid similar to those in AD patients …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid β interaction with model cell membranes–What are the toxicity-defining properties of amyloid β?

D Mrdenovic, IS Pieta, R Nowakowski, W Kutner… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Disruption of the neuronal membrane by toxic amyloid β oligomers is hypothesized to be the
major event associated with Alzheimer's disease's neurotoxicity. Misfolding of amyloid β is …

Early stage β-amyloid-membrane interactions modulate lipid dynamics and influence structural interfaces and fibrillation

JM Kenyaga, Q Cheng, W Qiang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
Molecular interactions between β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide and membranes contribute to the
neuronal toxicity of Aβ and the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Neuronal plasma …

The association of lipids with amyloid fibrils

JM Sanderson - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
Amyloid formation continues to be a widely studied area due to its association with
numerous diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Despite a large body of …

Structural studies of amyloid-β peptides: Unlocking the mechanism of aggregation and the associated toxicity

R Aleksis, F Oleskovs, K Jaudzems, J Pahnke… - Biochimie, 2017 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases
worldwide. Formation of amyloid plaques consisting of amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) is one of the …

Stabilization and structural analysis of a membrane-associated hIAPP aggregation intermediate

DC Rodriguez Camargo, KJ Korshavn, A Jussupow… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Membrane-assisted amyloid formation is implicated in human diseases, and many of the
aggregating species accelerate amyloid formation and induce cell death. While structures of …

Insights into protein misfolding and aggregation enabled by solid-state NMR spectroscopy

PCA van der Wel - Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance, 2017 - Elsevier
The aggregation of proteins and peptides into a variety of insoluble, and often non-native,
aggregated states plays a central role in many devastating diseases. Analogous processes …