The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review

KP Kepp, NK Robakis, PF Høilund-Carlsen, SL Sensi… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Results from recent clinical trials of antibodies that target amyloid-β (Aβ) for Alzheimer's
disease have created excitement and have been heralded as corroboration of the amyloid …

Baicalin Attenuated Aβ1-42‐Induced Apoptosis in SH‐SY5Y Cells by Inhibiting the Ras‐ERK Signaling Pathway

Z Song, C He, W Yu, M Yang, Z Li, P Li… - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious neurodegenerative disease. It is widely believed that
the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) in neurons around neurofibrillary plaques is the main …

Three simple properties explain protein stability change upon mutation

O Caldararu, TL Blundell, KP Kepp - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Accurate prediction of protein stability upon mutation enables rational engineering of new
proteins and insights into protein evolution and monogenetic diseases caused by single …

Side-by-side comparison of Notch-and C83 binding to γ-secretase in a complete membrane model at physiological temperature

B Dehury, N Tang, R Mehra, TL Blundell, KP Kepp - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
γ-Secretase cleaves the C99 fragment of the amyloid precursor protein, leading to formation
of aggregated β-amyloid peptide central to Alzheimer's disease, and Notch, essential for cell …

Data set and fitting dependencies when estimating protein mutant stability: Toward simple, balanced, and interpretable models

KT Bæk, KP Kepp - Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate prediction of protein stability changes upon mutation (ΔΔG) is increasingly
important to evolution studies, protein engineering, and screening of disease‐causing gene …

A computer-simulated mechanism of familial Alzheimer's disease: Mutations enhance thermal dynamics and favor looser substrate-binding to γ-secretase

B Dehury, AK Somavarapu, KP Kepp - Journal of Structural Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The 4-subunit intramembrane protease complex γ-secretase cleaves many substrates
including fragments of the β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), leading to formation of Aβ …

Modelling SARS-CoV-2 spike-protein mutation effects on ACE2 binding

S Thakur, RK Verma, KP Kepp, R Mehra - Journal of Molecular Graphics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The binding affinity of the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S)-protein to the human membrane protein
ACE2 is critical for virus function. Computational structure-based screening of new S-protein …

Biological databases and tools for neurological disorders

MB Usman, S Ojha, SK Jha… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - research.aalto.fi
Computational approaches to study of neuronal impairment is rapidly evolving, as
experiments and intuition alone do not explain the complexity of the brain system. An …

Membrane dynamics of γ‐secretase with the anterior pharynx‐defective 1B subunit

B Dehury, KP Kepp - Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The four‐subunit protease complex γ‐secretase cleaves many single‐pass transmembrane
(TM) substrates, including Notch and β‐amyloid precursor protein to generate amyloid‐β …

Predicting virus Fitness: Towards a structure-based computational model

S Thakur, KP Kepp, R Mehra - Journal of Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting the impact of new emerging virus mutations is of major interest in surveillance
and for understanding the evolutionary forces of the pathogens. The SARS-CoV-2 surface …