Fluorescence nanoscopy in cell biology

SJ Sahl, SW Hell, S Jakobs - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Fluorescence nanoscopy uniquely combines minimally invasive optical access to the
internal nanoscale structure and dynamics of cells and tissues with molecular detection …

Effects of in vivo conditions on amyloid aggregation

MC Owen, D Gnutt, M Gao, SKTS Wärmländer… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the grand challenges of biophysical chemistry is to understand the principles that
govern protein misfolding and aggregation, which is a highly complex process that is …

Super-resolving microscopy in neuroscience

C Werner, M Sauer, C Geis - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence imaging techniques play a pivotal role in our understanding of the nervous
system. The emergence of various super-resolution microscopy methods and specialized …

Huntingtin exon 1 fibrils feature an interdigitated β-hairpin–based polyglutamine core

CL Hoop, HK Lin, K Kar… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Polyglutamine expansion within the exon1 of huntingtin leads to protein misfolding,
aggregation, and cytotoxicity in Huntington's disease. This incurable neurodegenerative …

Polyglutamine-mediated ribotoxicity disrupts proteostasis and stress responses in Huntington's disease

R Aviner, TT Lee, VB Masto, KH Li, R Andino… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, encoding a homopolymeric polyglutamine …

Fibril polymorphism affects immobilized non-amyloid flanking domains of huntingtin exon1 rather than its polyglutamine core

HK Lin, JC Boatz, IE Krabbendam, R Kodali… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Polyglutamine expansion in the huntingtin protein is the primary genetic cause of
Huntington's disease (HD). Fragments coinciding with mutant huntingtin exon1 aggregate in …

The power of super-resolution microscopy in modern biomedical science

N Sun, Y Jia, S Bai, Q Li, L Dai, J Li - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Super-resolution microscopy (SRM) technology that breaks the diffraction limit has
revolutionized the field of cell biology since its appearance, which enables researchers to …

Real-time imaging of Huntingtin aggregates diverting target search and gene transcription

L Li, H Liu, P Dong, D Li, WR Legant, JB Grimm… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The presumptive altered dynamics of transient molecular interactions in vivo contributing to
neurodegenerative diseases have remained elusive. Here, using single-molecule …

[HTML][HTML] Protofilament structure and supramolecular polymorphism of aggregated mutant huntingtin exon 1

JC Boatz, T Piretra, A Lasorsa, I Matlahov… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by expansion of
the polyglutamine domain in the first exon of huntingtin (HttEx1). The extent of expansion …

Quantitative NMR analysis of the kinetics of prenucleation oligomerization and aggregation of pathogenic huntingtin exon-1 protein

A Ceccon, V Tugarinov, F Torricella… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The N-terminal region of the huntingtin protein, encoded by exon-1 (httex1) and containing
an expanded polyglutamine tract, forms fibrils that accumulate in neuronal inclusion bodies …