[HTML][HTML] Amyloid β, Tau, and α-Synuclein aggregates in the pathogenesis, prognosis, and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

U Sengupta, R Kayed - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Aggregation of specific proteins are histopathological hallmarks of several
neurodegenerative diseases, such as, Amyloid β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary …

Chemical design of activatable photoacoustic probes for precise biomedical applications

Y Liu, L Teng, B Yin, H Meng, X Yin, S Huan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology, a three-dimensional hybrid imaging modality that
integrates the advantage of optical and acoustic imaging, has great application prospects in …

A hairpin motif in the amyloid-β peptide is important for formation of disease-related oligomers

M Khaled, I Rönnbäck, LL Ilag… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease and
is known to form highly neurotoxic prefibrillar oligomeric aggregates, which are difficult to …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

C3N nanodots inhibits Aβ peptides aggregation pathogenic path in Alzheimer's disease

X Yin, H Zhou, M Zhang, J Su, X Wang, S Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the accumulating evidence linking the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) to
the aggregation of Aβ peptides and the emergence of Aβ oligomers, the FDA has approved …

Ins and outs of AlphaFold2 transmembrane protein structure predictions

T Hegedűs, M Geisler, GL Lukács, B Farkas - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Transmembrane (TM) proteins are major drug targets, but their structure determination, a
prerequisite for rational drug design, remains challenging. Recently, the DeepMind's …

PEP-FOLD4: a pH-dependent force field for peptide structure prediction in aqueous solution

J Rey, S Murail, S de Vries, P Derreumaux… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accurate and fast structure prediction of peptides of less 40 amino acids in aqueous solution
has many biological applications, but their conformations are pH-and salt concentration …

Energy landscapes of protein aggregation and conformation switching in intrinsically disordered proteins

B Strodel - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The protein folding problem was apparently solved recently by the advent of a deep learning
method for protein structure prediction called AlphaFold. However, this program is not able …

Exploring pathological link between antimicrobial and amyloid peptides

Y Tang, Y Zhang, D Zhang, Y Liu, R Nussinov… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid peptides (AMYs) and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered as the two
distinct families of peptides, characterized by their unique sequences, structures, biological …

Peptide self-assembled nanocarriers for cancer drug delivery

VB Kumar, B Ozguney, A Vlachou, Y Chen… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The design of novel cancer drug nanocarriers is critical in the framework of cancer
therapeutics. Nanomaterials are gaining increased interest as cancer drug delivery systems …