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 …

Structure and aggregation mechanisms in amyloids

ZL Almeida, RMM Brito - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aggregation of a polypeptide chain into amyloid fibrils and their accumulation and
deposition into insoluble plaques and intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of several …

Natural compounds for Alzheimer's disease therapy: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies

S Andrade, MJ Ramalho, JA Loureiro… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder related with the increase of age
and it is the main cause of dementia in the world. AD affects cognitive functions, such as …

Linking the amyloid, tau, and mitochondrial hypotheses of Alzheimer's disease and identifying promising drug targets

Z Fišar - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Damage or loss of brain cells and impaired neurochemistry, neurogenesis, and synaptic and
nonsynaptic plasticity of the brain lead to dementia in neurodegenerative diseases, such as …

Use of curcumin in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

M Chen, ZY Du, X Zheng, DL Li, RP Zhou… - Neural regeneration …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
This review summarizes and describes the use of curcumin in diagnosis, prevention, and
treatment of Alzheimer's disease. For diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-β and …

Do post-translational modifications influence protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review

LN Schaffert, WG Carter - Brain sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The accumulation of abnormal protein aggregates represents a universal hallmark of
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate …

Inorganic polyphosphate, a multifunctional polyanionic protein scaffold

L Xie, U Jakob - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Polyphosphate (polyP) consists of a linear arrangement of inorganic phosphates and defies
its structural simplicity with an astounding number of different activities in the cell. Already …

Amyloid β oligomers (AβOs) in Alzheimer's disease

B Mroczko, M Groblewska, A Litman-Zawadzka… - Journal of Neural …, 2018 - Springer
The causative role of amyloid β 1–42 (Aβ42) aggregation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) has been under debate for over 25 years. Primarily, scientific efforts have …

[HTML][HTML] Structural, morphological, and functional diversity of amyloid oligomers

L Breydo, VN Uversky - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Protein misfolding and aggregation are known to play a crucial role in a number of important
human diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prion, diabetes, cataracts, etc.) as well as in a …

Looking beyond the core: the role of flanking regions in the aggregation of amyloidogenic peptides and proteins

SM Ulamec, DJ Brockwell, SE Radford - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid proteins are involved in many neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's
disease [Tau, Amyloid β (Aβ)], Parkinson's disease [alpha-synuclein (αSyn)], and …