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 …

Heparin-induced tau filaments are polymorphic and differ from those in Alzheimer's and Pick's diseases

W Zhang, B Falcon, AG Murzin, J Fan, RA Crowther… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Assembly of microtubule-associated protein tau into filamentous inclusions underlies a
range of neurodegenerative diseases. Tau filaments adopt different conformations in …

Molecular crowding: the history and development of a scientific paradigm

C Alfano, Y Fichou, K Huber, M Weiss, E Spruijt… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
It is now generally accepted that macromolecules do not act in isolation but “live” in a
crowded environment, that is, an environment populated by numerous different molecules …

Tau filaments in neurodegenerative diseases

M Goedert - FEBS letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ordered assembly of Tau protein into abnormal filamentous inclusions is a defining
characteristic of many human neurodegenerative diseases. Thirty years ago, we reported …

Cofactors are essential constituents of stable and seeding-active tau fibrils

Y Fichou, Y Lin, JN Rauch, M Vigers… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Amyloid fibrils are cross-β–rich aggregates that are exceptionally stable forms of protein
assembly. Accumulation of tau amyloid fibrils is involved in many neurodegenerative …

Tau (297‐391) forms filaments that structurally mimic the core of paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease brain

YK Al‐Hilaly, BE Foster, L Biasetti, L Lutter… - FEBS …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The constituent paired helical filaments (PHFs) in neurofibrillary tangles are insoluble
intracellular deposits central to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other …

The mechanism of Hsp90-induced oligomerizaton of Tau

S Weickert, M Wawrzyniuk, LH John, SGD Rüdiger… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein Tau is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease
with Tau oligomers suspected as the most toxic agent. Tau is a client of the molecular …

In vitro 0N4R tau fibrils contain a monomorphic β-sheet core enclosed by dynamically heterogeneous fuzzy coat segments

AJ Dregni, VS Mandala, H Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Misfolding of the microtubule-binding protein tau into filamentous aggregates is
characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and …

Phosphorylation and O-GlcNAcylation of the PHF-1 Epitope of Tau Protein Induce Local Conformational Changes of the C-Terminus and Modulate Tau Self …

FX Cantrelle, A Loyens, X Trivelli… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Phosphorylation of the neuronal microtubule-associated Tau protein plays a critical role in
the aggregation process leading to the formation of insoluble intraneuronal fibrils within …

[HTML][HTML] To target Tau pathologies, we must embrace and reconstruct their complexities

G Limorenko, HA Lashuel - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
The accumulation of hyperphosphorylated fibrillar Tau aggregates in the brain is one of the
defining hallmarks of Tauopathy diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. However, the …