A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular structure of β-amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease brain tissue

JX Lu, W Qiang, WM Yau, CD Schwieters, SC Meredith… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
In vitro, β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides form polymorphic fibrils, with molecular structures that
depend on growth conditions, plus various oligomeric and protofibrillar aggregates. Here …

Cryo-EM structure of a neuronal functional amyloid implicated in memory persistence in Drosophila

R Hervas, MJ Rau, Y Park, W Zhang, AG Murzin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
How long-lived memories withstand molecular turnover is a fundamental question.
Aggregates of a prion-like RNA-binding protein, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid polymorphism: structural basis and neurobiological relevance

R Tycko - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Our understanding of the molecular structures of amyloid fibrils that are associated with
neurodegenerative diseases, of mechanisms by which disease-associated peptides and …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic force microscopy for single molecule characterisation of protein aggregation

FS Ruggeri, T Šneideris, M Vendruscolo… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has opened up a wide range of novel
opportunities in nanoscience and new modalities of observation in complex biological …

High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals structural dynamics of amyloid β1–42 aggregates

T Watanabe-Nakayama, K Ono… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins into insoluble amyloid fibrils is implicated in various
neurodegenerative diseases. This process involves protein assembly into oligomeric …

Physical and structural basis for polymorphism in amyloid fibrils

R Tycko - Protein Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As our understanding of the molecular structures of amyloid fibrils has matured over the past
15 years, it has become clear that, while amyloid fibrils do have well‐defined molecular …

Amyloid fibril structures of tau: Conformational plasticity of the second microtubule-binding repeat

N El Mammeri, P Duan, AJ Dregni, M Hong - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
The intrinsically disordered protein tau associates with microtubules in neurons but
aggregates into cross–β amyloid fibrils that propagate in neurodegenerative brains. Different …

Molecular structure and interactions within amyloid-like fibrils formed by a low-complexity protein sequence from FUS

M Lee, U Ghosh, KR Thurber, M Kato… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Protein domains without the usual distribution of amino acids, called low complexity (LC)
domains, can be prone to self-assembly into amyloid-like fibrils. Self-assembly of LC …