Revisiting the grammar of Tau aggregation and pathology formation: how new insights from brain pathology are shaping how we study and target Tauopathies

G Limorenko, HA Lashuel - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Converging evidence continues to point towards Tau aggregation and pathology formation
as central events in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other Tauopathies …

HD and SCA1: Tales from two 30-year journeys since gene discovery

LM Thompson, HT Orr - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
One of the more transformative findings in human genetics was the discovery that the
expansion of unstable nucleotide repeats underlies a group of inherited neurological …

New strategies for fluorescently labeling proteins in the study of amyloids

M Shimogawa, EJ Petersson - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Amyloid proteins are widely studied, both for their unusual biophysical properties and their
association with disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Fluorescence …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of transferable forcefields for protein simulations attests improved description of disordered states and secondary structure propensities, and hints …

LA Abriata, M Dal Peraro - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Continuous assessment of transferable forcefields for molecular simulations is essential to
identify their weaknesses and direct improvement efforts. The latest efforts focused on better …

[HTML][HTML] Roscovitine, a CDK inhibitor, reduced neuronal toxicity of mHTT by targeting HTT phosphorylation at S1181 and S1201 in Vitro

H Liu, A McCollum, A Krishnaprakash… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by
a single mutation in the huntingtin gene (HTT). Normal HTT has a CAG trinucleotide repeat …

Deciphering the structure and formation of amyloids in neurodegenerative diseases with chemical biology tools

I Landrieu, E Dupré, D Sinnaeve, L El Hajjar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Protein aggregation into highly ordered, regularly repeated cross-β sheet structures called
amyloid fibrils is closely associated to human disorders such as neurodegenerative …

Protein modification in neurodegenerative diseases

S Ramazi, M Dadzadi, M Darvazi, N Seddigh… - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Posttranslational modifications play a crucial role in governing cellular functions and protein
behavior. Researchers have implicated dysregulated posttranslational modifications in …

[HTML][HTML] The Nt17 domain and its helical conformation regulate the aggregation, cellular properties and neurotoxicity of mutant huntingtin exon 1

S Vieweg, AL Mahul-Mellier, FS Ruggeri… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Converging evidence points to the N-terminal domain comprising the first 17 amino acids of
the Huntingtin protein (Nt17) as a key regulator of its aggregation, cellular properties and …

Protein kinase CK2 and its potential role as a therapeutic target in Huntington's disease

A White, A McGlone, R Gomez-Pastor - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG
trinucleotide repeat expansion in the HTT gene, for which no disease modifying therapies …

A new chemoenzymatic semisynthetic approach provides insight into the role of phosphorylation beyond exon1 of huntingtin and reveals N-terminal fragment length …

R Kolla, P Gopinath, J Ricci, A Reif… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a
polyglutamine repeat (> 36Q) in the N-terminal domain of the huntingtin protein (Htt), which …