Non-specificity as the sticky problem in therapeutic antibody development

H Ausserwöger, MM Schneider, TW Herling… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies are highly potent therapeutic scaffolds with more than a hundred different
products approved on the market. Successful development of antibody-based drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Conformational entropy in molecular recognition of intrinsically disordered proteins

K Skriver, FF Theisen, BB Kragelund - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Broad conformational ensembles make intrinsically disordered proteins or regions
entropically intriguing. Although methodologically challenging and understudied, emerging …

Modulation of Alzheimer's Disease Aβ40 Fibril Polymorphism by the small heat shock protein αB-Crystallin

N Rodina, S Hornung, R Sarkar… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Deposition of amyloid plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients is a
hallmark of the disease. AD plaques consist primarily of the beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptide but …

Dissecting the self-assembly dynamics of imperfect repeats in α-Synuclein

F Huang, Y Wang, Y Zhang, C Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The pathological aggregation of α-synuclein (αS) into amyloid fibrils is the hallmark of
Parkinson's disease (PD). The self-assembly and membrane interactions of αS are mainly …

Identifying the role of co-aggregation of Alzheimer's amyloid-β with amorphous protein aggregates of non-amyloid proteins

J Wu, N Österlund, H Wang… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Protein homeostasis collapse typically leads to protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils and
diffuse amorphous aggregates, which both occur in Alzheimer's and other …

Chaperoning shape-shifting tau in disease

BD Ryder, PM Wydorski, Z Hou… - Trends in biochemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, originate from the conversion of
proteins into pathogenic conformations. The microtubule-associated protein tau converts …

Discerning modulation of α-synuclein amyloid assembly by α-Crystallin

B Pippal, P Chaudhuri, K Rani… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Altered protein folding leading to the formation of structured aggregates such as amyloid
fibrils has gained significant attention due to its association with neurodegenerative …

Short hydrophobic loop motifs in BRICHOS domains determine chaperone activity against amorphous protein aggregation but not against amyloid formation

G Chen, A Leppert, H Poska, HE Nilsson… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
ATP-independent molecular chaperones are important for maintaining cellular fitness but
the molecular determinants for preventing aggregation of partly unfolded protein substrates …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic antibody affinity profiling of alloantibody-HLA interactions in human serum

MM Schneider, T Scheidt, AJ Priddey, CK Xu… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibody profiling is a fundamental component of understanding the humoral response in a
wide range of disease areas. Most currently used approaches operate by capturing …

Targeting small heat shock proteins to degrade aggregates as a potential strategy in neurodegenerative diseases

T Lei, Z Xiao, W Bi, S Cai, Y Yang, H Du - Ageing Research Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are aging-related diseases that involve the death of
neurons in the brain. Dysregulation of protein homeostasis leads to the production of toxic …