Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

Alpha-synuclein: Pathology, mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease

EM Rocha, B De Miranda, LH Sanders - Neurobiology of disease, 2018 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex, chronic and progressive neurodegenerative
disease. While the etiology of PD is likely multifactorial, the protein α-synuclein is a central …

Tau and tauopathies

T Arendt, JT Stieler, M Holzer - Brain research bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by intracellular aggregates of insoluble
proteins. As for the majority of these disorders, aetiology and pathogenesis are only poorly …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …

Propagation of tau aggregates and neurodegeneration

M Goedert, DS Eisenberg… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A pathway from the natively unfolded microtubule-associated protein Tau to a highly
structured amyloid fibril underlies human Tauopathies. This ordered assembly causes …

The preclinical phase of the pathological process underlying sporadic Alzheimer's disease

H Braak, K Del Tredici - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abnormal tau lesions (non-argyrophilic pretangle material, argyrophilic neuropil threads,
neurofibrillary tangles) in select types of neurons are crucial for the pathogenesis of sporadic …

Sporadic Parkinson's disease: development and distribution of α‐synuclein pathology

K Del Tredici, H Braak - Neuropathology and applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The development of α‐synuclein immunoreactive aggregates in selectively vulnerable
neuronal types of the human central, peripheral, and enteric nervous systems is crucial for …

Dendritic tau in Alzheimer's disease

A Ittner, LM Ittner - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The microtubule-associated protein tau and amyloid-β (Aβ) are key players in Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Aβ and tau are linked in a molecular pathway at the post-synapse with tau …

Neuronal uptake and propagation of a rare phosphorylated high-molecular-weight tau derived from Alzheimer's disease brain

S Takeda, S Wegmann, H Cho, SL DeVos… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Tau pathology is known to spread in a hierarchical pattern in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain
during disease progression, likely by trans-synaptic tau transfer between neurons. However …

TDP-43 is intercellularly transmitted across axon terminals

MS Feiler, B Strobel, A Freischmidt, AM Helferich… - Journal of Cell …, 2015 - rupress.org
Transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 kD (TDP-43) is an aggregation-prone prion-
like domain-containing protein and component of pathological intracellular aggregates …