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 …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Tau post-translational modifications: dynamic transformers of tau function, degradation, and aggregation

C Alquezar, S Arya, AW Kao - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on tau have long been recognized as affecting
protein function and contributing to neurodegeneration. The explosion of information on …

Homotypic fibrillization of TMEM106B across diverse neurodegenerative diseases

A Chang, X Xiang, J Wang, C Lee, T Arakhamia… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Misfolding and aggregation of disease-specific proteins, resulting in the formation of
filamentous cellular inclusions, is a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease with …

Posttranslational modifications mediate the structural diversity of tauopathy strains

T Arakhamia, CE Lee, Y Carlomagno, M Kumar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Tau aggregation into insoluble filaments is the defining pathological hallmark of tauopathies.
However, it is not known what controls the formation and templated seeding of strain-specific …

2.7 Å cryo-EM structure of ex vivo RML prion fibrils

SW Manka, W Zhang, A Wenborn, J Betts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian prions propagate as distinct strains and are composed of multichain assemblies
of misfolded host-encoded prion protein (PrP). Here, we present a near-atomic resolution …

Extracellular protein components of amyloid plaques and their roles in Alzheimer's disease pathology

MM Rahman, C Lendel - Molecular Neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically defined by the presence of fibrillar amyloid β (Aβ)
peptide in extracellular senile plaques and tau filaments in intracellular neurofibrillary …

Protein fibrils from different food sources: A review of fibrillation conditions, properties, applications and research trends

Y Meng, Z Wei, C Xue - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In recent years, protein fibrillization has attracted extensive attention on account
of endowing food with desirable functional properties and better stability, which makes it a …

Evaluation of peptide/protein self-assembly and aggregation by spectroscopic methods

MF Pignataro, MG Herrera, VI Dodero - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The self-assembly of proteins is an essential process for a variety of cellular functions
including cell respiration, mobility and division. On the other hand, protein or peptide …

A central role for amyloid fibrin microclots in long COVID/PASC: origins and therapeutic implications

DB Kell, GJ Laubscher, E Pretorius - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Post-acute sequelae of COVID (PASC), usually referred to as 'Long COVID'(a phenotype of
COVID-19), is a relatively frequent consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, in which …