Peptide inhibitors of insulin fibrillation: Current and future challenges

B Rosetti, S Marchesan - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyloidoses include a large variety of local and systemic diseases that share the common
feature of protein unfolding or refolding into amyloid fibrils. The most studied amyloids are …

Peptides for disrupting and degrading amyloids

CQ Liang, YM Li - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Amyloid proteins can aggregate into insoluble fibrils and form amyloid deposits in the
human brain, which is the hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Promising …

Insulin fibrillation: Strategies for inhibition

M Qafary, F Rashno, K Khajeh, M Khaledi… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Insulin and its homologous are the most utilized protein drugs due to their role in diabetic
patients' treatment. Insulin forms amyloid-like fibrils in vivo at the injection site. Therefore, the …

Clues to the Design of Aggregation-Resistant Insulin from Proline Scanning of Highly Amyloidogenic Peptides Derived from the N-Terminal Segment of the A-Chain

W Puławski, R Dec, W Dzwolak - Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Insulin aggregation poses a significant problem in pharmacology and medicine as it occurs
during prolonged storage of the hormone and in vivo at insulin injection sites. We have …

Protein aggregation: Consequences, mechanism, characterization and inhibitory strategies

N Majid, RH Khan - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Proteins play a major role in the regulation of various cellular functions including the
synthesis of structural components. But proteins are stable under physiological conditions …

The Strategies of Development of New Non-Toxic Inhibitors of Amyloid Formation

OV Galzitskaya, SY Grishin, AV Glyakina… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, due to the aging of the population and the development of diagnostic
medicine, the number of identified diseases associated with the accumulation of amyloid …

Biophysical insight into the anti-fibrillation potential of Glyburide for its possible implication in therapeutic intervention of amyloid associated diseases

S Malik, MK Siddiqi, N Naseem, F Nabi, A Masroor… - Biochimie, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is an underlying cause of many neurodegenerative diseases. Also, the
overlapping pathological disturbances between neurodegenerative diseases and type-2 …

Moxifloxacin disrupts and attenuates Aβ42 fibril and oligomer formation: plausibly repositioning an antibiotic as therapeutic against Alzheimer's disease

AN Khan, F Nabi, MR Ajmal, SM Ali… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The aggregation of Aβ42 is established as a key factor in the development of Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Consequently, molecules that inhibit aggregation of peptide may lead to …

Insulin amyloid fibril formation reduction by tripeptide stereoisomers

B Rosetti, S Kralj, E Scarel, S Adorinni, B Rossi… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Insulin fibrillation is a problem for diabetic patients that can occur during storage and
transport, as well as at the subcutaneous injection site, with loss of bioactivity, inflammation …

Prevention of insulin fibrillation by biocompatible choline-amino acid based ionic liquids: Biophysical insights

E Judy, N Kishore - Biochimie, 2023 - Elsevier
We have synthesized biocompatible ionic liquids (ILs) with choline as cation and amino
acids as anions to explore their potential towards prevention of fibrillation in insulin and the …