Protein aggregation–mechanisms, detection, and control

W Wang, CJ Roberts - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation has been recognized as one of the major challenges in the
development and commercialization of successful protein-based drug products because of …

High-throughput biophysical analysis of protein therapeutics to examine interrelationships between aggregate formation and conformational stability

R Chaudhuri, Y Cheng, CR Middaugh, DB Volkin - The AAPS journal, 2014 - Springer
Stabilization and formulation of therapeutic proteins against physical instability, both
structural alterations and aggregation, is particularly challenging not only due to each …

Disulfide-bond scrambling promotes amorphous aggregates in lysozyme and bovine serum albumin

M Yang, C Dutta, A Tiwari - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015 - ACS Publications
Disulfide bonds are naturally formed in more than 50% of amyloidogenic proteins, but the
exact role of disulfide bonds in protein aggregation is still not well-understood. The …

On the protein fibrillation pathway: oligomer intermediates detection using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy

J Milošević, R Prodanović, N Polović - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oligomeric intermediates on the pathway of amyloid fibrillation are suspected as the main
cytotoxins responsible for amyloid-related pathogenicity. As they appear to be a part of the …

Conformational targeting of intracellular Aβ oligomers demonstrates their pathological oligomerization inside the endoplasmic reticulum

G Meli, A Lecci, A Manca, N Krako, V Albertini… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Aβ oligomers (AβOs) are crucially involved in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). However, the lack
of selective approaches for targeting these polymorphic Aβ assemblies represents a major …

Amyloid self-assembly of lysozyme in self-crowded conditions: the Formation of a protein oligomer hydrogel

S Catalini, DR Perinelli, P Sassi, L Comez… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A method is designed to quickly form protein hydrogels, based on the self-assembly of
highly concentrated lysozyme solutions in acidic conditions. Their properties can be easily …

Inhibition of lysozyme aggregation and cellular toxicity by organic acids at acidic and physiological pH conditions

K Al Adem, S Lukman, TY Kim, S Lee - International journal of biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The misfolding of proteins can lead to fibrillar and non-fibrillar deposits that are the hallmark
of numerous human diseases. Inhibition of protein aggregation is considered as a promising …

Sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin for inhibition and rupture of amyloid fibrils

MN Shinde, R Khurana, N Barooah… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Anomalous aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils leads to various amyloidosis
diseases including neurodegenerative disorders. Inhibition of fibrillation process and rupture …

Wild-type hen egg white lysozyme aggregation in vitro can form self-seeding amyloid conformational variants

V Sivalingam, NL Prasanna, N Sharma, A Prasad… - Biophysical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Misfolded β-sheet-rich protein aggregates termed amyloid, deposit in vivo leading to
debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's, prion and renal amyloidosis diseases etc …

In Situ Characterization of Hfq Bacterial Amyloid: A Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Study

D Partouche, V Militello, A Gomez-Zavaglia, F Wien… - Pathogens, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hfq is a bacterial protein that regulates gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in
Gram-negative bacteria. We have previously shown that Escherichia coli Hfq protein, and …