Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in the structural study of polyglutamine aggregation

PCA van der Wel - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2024 - portlandpress.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid-like fibrils is seen in many neurodegenerative
diseases. Recent years have seen much progress in our understanding of these misfolded …

Ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopic markers for protein structure and dynamics

RS Jakubek, J Handen, SE White, SA Asher… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
UV resonance Raman (UVRR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating the structure
of biological molecules, such as proteins. Numerous UVRR spectroscopic markers that …

Integrative determination of atomic structure of mutant huntingtin exon 1 fibrils implicated in Huntington disease

M Bagherpoor Helabad, I Matlahov, R Kumar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease (HD) is accompanied by the aggregation of
fragments of the mutant huntingtin protein, a biomarker of disease progression. A particular …

Structural basis of huntingtin fibril polymorphism revealed by cryogenic electron microscopy of exon 1 HTT fibrils

S Nazarov, A Chiki, D Boudeffa… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The lack of detailed insight into the structure of aggregates formed by the huntingtin protein
(HTT) has hampered the efforts to develop therapeutics and diagnostics targeting pathology …

Development of a quantitative method to measure EV uptake

V Toribio, S Morales, S López-Martín, B Cardeñes… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The outstanding potential of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in medicine, deserves a detailed
study of the molecular aspects regulating their incorporation into target cells. However …

Conformational fingerprinting of tau variants and strains by Raman spectroscopy

G Devitt, A Crisford, W Rice, HA Weismiller, Z Fan… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Tauopathies are a group of disorders in which the deposition of abnormally folded tau
protein accompanies neurodegeneration. The development of methods for detection and …

Structural bases of prion variation in yeast

VV Kushnirov, AA Dergalev, MK Alieva… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Amyloids are protein aggregates with a specific filamentous structure that are related to a
number of human diseases, and also to some important physiological processes in animals …

Understanding amyloid fibril formation using protein fragments: structural investigations via vibrational spectroscopy and solid-state NMR

B Martial, T Lefèvre, M Auger - Biophysical Reviews, 2018 - Springer
It is well established that amyloid proteins play a primary role in neurodegenerative
diseases. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type II diabetes, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob's diseases are …

Integrative determination of the atomic structure of mutant huntingtin exon 1 fibrils from Huntington's disease

MB Helabad, I Matlahov, JO Daldrop, G Jain… - bioRxiv, 2023 - research.rug.nl
Neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease (HD) is accompanied by the aggregation of
fragments of the mutant huntingtin protein, a biomarker of disease progression. A particular …

[HTML][HTML] Proteomic evidence for amyloidogenic cross-seeding in fibrinaloid microclots

DB Kell, E Pretorius - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In classical amyloidoses, amyloid fibres form through the nucleation and accretion of protein
monomers, with protofibrils and fibrils exhibiting a cross-β motif of parallel or antiparallel β …