The expanding amyloid family: Structure, stability, function, and pathogenesis

MR Sawaya, MP Hughes, JA Rodriguez, R Riek… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The hidden world of amyloid biology has suddenly snapped into atomic-level focus,
revealing over 80 amyloid protein fibrils, both pathogenic and functional. Unlike globular …

Biological activities of secretory RNases: Focus on their oligomerization to design antitumor drugs

G Gotte, M Menegazzi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ribonucleases (RNases) are a large number of enzymes gathered into different bacterial or
eukaryotic superfamilies. Bovine pancreatic RNase A, bovine seminal BS-RNase, human …

Microbial-generated amyloids and Alzheimer's disease (AD)

JM Hill, WJ Lukiw - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Atypical amyloid generation, folding, aggregation and impaired clearance are characteristic
pathological features of human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial sources of amyloid and relevance to amyloidogenesis and Alzheimer's disease (AD)

Y Zhao, P Dua, WJ Lukiw - Journal of Alzheimer's disease & …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the inception of the human microbiome project (HMP) by the US National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in 2007 there has been a keen resurgence in our recognition of the human …

Structure-based design of functional amyloid materials

D Li, EM Jones, MR Sawaya, H Furukawa… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Amyloid fibers, once exclusively associated with disease, are acquiring utility as a class of
biological nanomaterials. Here we introduce a method that utilizes the atomic structures of …

Cryo-EM reveals the steric zipper structure of a light chain-derived amyloid fibril

A Schmidt, K Annamalai, M Schmidt… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Amyloid fibrils are proteinaceous aggregates associated with diseases in humans and
animals. The fibrils are defined by intermolecular interactions between the fibril-forming …

Structural evidence of amyloid fibril formation in the putative aggregation domain of TDP-43

M Mompeán, R Hervás, Y Xu, TH Tran… - The journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
TDP-43 can form pathological proteinaceous aggregates linked to ALS and FTLD. Within the
putative aggregation domain, engineered repeats of residues 341–366 can recruit …

Structural characterization of the minimal segment of TDP-43 competent for aggregation

M Mompeán, E Buratti, C Guarnaccia, RMM Brito… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
TDP-43 is a nuclear protein whose abnormal aggregates are implicated in ALS and FTLD.
Recently, an Asn/Gln rich C-terminal segment of TDP-43 has been shown to produce …

The formation, function and regulation of amyloids: insights from structural biology

M Landreh, MR Sawaya, MS Hipp… - Journal of internal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid diseases are characterized by the accumulation of insoluble, β‐strand‐rich
aggregates. The underlying structural conversions are closely associated with cellular …

The stability of 2-state, 3-state and more-state proteins from simple spectroscopic techniques... plus the structure of the equilibrium intermediates at the same time

J Sancho - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Protein stability is not just an academic matter. Biotechnology, Cell Biology and Drug Design
are some of the fields where both theoretical and practical knowledge of protein stability is …