Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Dissecting the role of protein phosphorylation: a chemical biology toolbox

T Bilbrough, E Piemontese, O Seitz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein phosphorylation is a crucial regulator of protein and cellular function, yet, despite
identifying an enormous number of phosphorylation sites, the role of most is still unclear …

[HTML][HTML] A current view on Tau protein phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease

S Wegmann, J Biernat, E Mandelkow - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The functions of the neuronal microtubule-associated protein Tau in the central nervous
system are regulated by manifold posttranslational modifications at more than 50 sites. Tau …

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 …

Disease‐linked TDP‐43 hyperphosphorylation suppresses TDP‐43 condensation and aggregation

LA Gruijs da Silva, F Simonetti, S Hutten… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) have emerged as key modulators of protein phase
separation and have been linked to protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disorders …

Structures of the intrinsically disordered Aβ, tau and α-synuclein proteins in aqueous solution from computer simulations

PH Nguyen, P Derreumaux - Biophysical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play many biological roles in the human proteome
ranging from vesicular transport, signal transduction to neurodegenerative diseases. The Aβ …

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 …

Chemical synthesis of bioactive proteins

O Harel, M Jbara - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nature has developed a plethora of protein machinery to operate and maintain nearly every
task of cellular life. These processes are tightly regulated via post‐expression modifications …

O-GlcNAcase inhibitor ASN90 is a multimodal drug candidate for tau and α-synuclein proteinopathies

B Permanne, A Sand, S Ousson, M Nény… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Neurodegenerative proteinopathies are characterized by the intracellular formation of
insoluble and toxic protein aggregates in the brain that are closely linked to disease …

D‐peptide and d‐protein technology: recent advances, challenges, and opportunities

AJ Lander, Y Jin, LYP Luk - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Total chemical protein synthesis provides access to entire D‐protein enantiomers enabling
unique applications in molecular biology, structural biology, and bioactive compound …