Aβ and Tau Interact with Metal Ions, Lipid Membranes and Peptide-Based Amyloid Inhibitors: Are These Common Features Relevant in Alzheimer's Disease?

G Di Natale, G Sabatino, MFM Sciacca, R Tosto… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last two decades, the amyloid hypothesis, ie, the abnormal accumulation of toxic Aβ
assemblies in the brain, has been considered the mainstream concept sustaining research …

The interplay between lipid and Aβ amyloid homeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease: risk factors and therapeutic opportunities

S García-Viñuales, MFM Sciacca, V Lanza… - Chemistry and Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Diseases (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid deposits of Aβ
peptide in the brain. Besides genetic background, the presence of other diseases and an …

pH tunable and divalent metal ion tolerant polymer lipid nanodiscs

T Ravula, NZ Hardin, SK Ramadugu, A Ramamoorthy - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
The development and applications of detergent-free membrane mimetics have been the
focus for the high-resolution structural and functional studies on membrane proteins. The …

The role of cholesterol in driving IAPP-membrane interactions

MFM Sciacca, F Lolicato, G Di Mauro, D Milardi… - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Our knowledge of the molecular events underlying type 2 diabetes mellitus—a protein
conformational disease characterized by the aggregation of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) …

High-throughput screening at the membrane interface reveals inhibitors of amyloid-β

SJ Cox, B Lam, A Prasad, HA Marietta, NV Stander… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Aggregation and the formation of oligomeric intermediates of amyloid-β (Aβ) at the
membrane interface of neuronal cells are implicated in the cellular toxicity and pathology of …

[HTML][HTML] Silybins inhibit human IAPP amyloid growth and toxicity through stereospecific interactions

S García-Viñuales, IM Ilie, AM Santoro… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Type 2 Diabetes is a major public health threat, and its prevalence is increasing worldwide.
The abnormal accumulation of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) in pancreatic β-cells is …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular truncated tau causes early presynaptic dysfunction associated with Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

F Florenzano, C Veronica, G Ciasca, MT Ciotti… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The largest part of tau secreted from AD nerve terminals and released in cerebral spinal fluid
(CSF) is C-terminally truncated, soluble and unaggregated supporting potential extracellular …

Anti-angiogenic and anti-proliferative graphene oxide nanosheets for tumor cell therapy

V Verde, A Longo, LM Cucci, V Sanfilippo… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Graphene oxide (GO) is a bidimensional novel material that exhibits high biocompatibility
and angiogenic properties, mostly related to the intracellular formation of reactive oxygen …

Amyloid-mediated mechanisms of membrane disruption

MFM Sciacca, C La Rosa, D Milardi - Biophysica, 2021 - mdpi.com
Protein aggregation and amyloid formation are pathogenic events underlying the
development of an increasingly large number of human diseases named “proteinopathies” …

Interactions of Cu2+ with prion family peptide fragments: Considerations on affinity, speciation and coordination

G Arena, D La Mendola, G Pappalardo, I Sóvágó… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2012 - Elsevier
The review describes the stability and the coordination modes of Cu2+ complexes with
different regions of N-terminus prion proteins. The structural features of the different metal …