Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

A guide to studying protein aggregation

JAJ Housmans, G Wu, J Schymkowitz… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disrupted protein folding or decreased protein stability can lead to the accumulation of
(partially) un‐or misfolded proteins, which ultimately cause the formation of protein …

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 …

Alpha-synuclein aggregation pathway in Parkinson's disease: current status and novel therapeutic approaches

M Vidović, MG Rikalovic - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Following Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second-most common
neurodegenerative disorder, sharing an unclear pathophysiology, a multifactorial profile …

Aβ-oligomers: A potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

S Ghosh, R Ali, S Verma - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The cascade of amyloid formation relates to multiple complex events at the molecular level.
Previous research has established amyloid plaque deposition as the leading cause of …

Protein interaction networks in neurodegenerative diseases: From physiological function to aggregation

G Calabrese, C Molzahn, T Mayor - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
The accumulation of protein inclusions is linked to many neurodegenerative diseases that
typically develop in older individuals, due to a combination of genetic and environmental …

Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development

H Ausserwöger, MM Schneider, TW Herling… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are highly potent therapeutic scaffolds with more than a hundred different
products approved on the market. Successful development of antibody-based drugs …

Natural compounds as inhibitors of Aβ peptide aggregation: chemical requirements and molecular mechanisms

K Pagano, S Tomaselli, H Molinari… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, with no
cure and preventive therapy. Misfolding and extracellular aggregation of Amyloid-β (Aβ) …

[HTML][HTML] The role of amyloid oligomers in neurodegenerative pathologies

C Wells, S Brennan, M Keon, L Ooi - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many neurodegenerative diseases are rooted in the activities of amyloid-like proteins which
possess conformations that spread to healthy proteins. These include Alzheimer's disease …

Looking beyond the core: the role of flanking regions in the aggregation of amyloidogenic peptides and proteins

SM Ulamec, DJ Brockwell, SE Radford - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid proteins are involved in many neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's
disease [Tau, Amyloid β (Aβ)], Parkinson's disease [alpha-synuclein (αSyn)], and …