Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

Amyloid-type protein aggregation and prion-like properties of amyloids

D Willbold, B Strodel, GF Schröder, W Hoyer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review will focus on the process of amyloid-type protein aggregation. Amyloid fibrils are
an important hallmark of protein misfolding diseases and therefore have been investigated …

Solid-state NMR: Methods for biological solids

S Ahlawat, KR Mote, NA Lakomek… - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy has
transformed from a spectroscopic technique investigating small molecules and industrial …

Amyloid cross-seeding: Mechanism, implication, and inhibition

S Subedi, S Sasidharan, N Nag, P Saudagar, T Tripathi - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's
disease, etc. are caused by inclusions and plaques containing misfolded protein …

Cryo-EM of Aβ fibrils from mouse models find tg-APPArcSwe fibrils resemble those found in patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease

M Zielinski, FS Peralta Reyes, L Gremer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of transgenic mice displaying amyloid-β (Aβ) brain pathology has been essential for
the preclinical assessment of new treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease. However, the …

On the structural diversity and individuality of polymorphic amyloid protein assemblies

L Lutter, LD Aubrey, WF Xue - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The prediction of highly ordered three-dimensional structures of amyloid protein fibrils from
the amino acid sequences of their monomeric self-assembly precursors constitutes a …

Extended β-strands contribute to reversible amyloid formation

KA Murray, D Evans, MP Hughes, MR Sawaya, CJ Hu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The assembly of proteins into fibrillar amyloid structures was once considered to be
pathologic and essentially irreversible. Recent studies reveal amyloid-like structures that …

Vibrational Optical Activity of amyloid fibrils

Z Majka, K Kwiecień, A Kaczor - ChemPlusChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid fibrils are supramolecular systems showing distinct chirality at different levels of
their complex multilayered architectures. Due to the regular long‐range chiral organization …

Integrative modeling of diverse protein-peptide systems using CABS-dock

W Puławski, A Koliński, M Koliński - PLoS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The CABS model can be applied to a wide range of protein-protein and protein-peptide
molecular modeling tasks, such as simulating folding pathways, predicting structures …

Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of the co-aggregation of Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides: a REMD simulation study

X Li, Z Yang, Y Chen, S Zhang, G Wei… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The aggregation of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) into oligomers and amyloid fibrils is closely
related to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ40 and Aβ42, as two most prominent isoforms of Aβ …