The molecular language of membraneless organelles

E Gomes, J Shorter - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Eukaryotic cells organize their intracellular components into organelles that can be
membrane-bound or membraneless. A large number of membraneless organelles, including …

Structure, function, and regulation of the Hsp90 machinery

MM Biebl, J Buchner - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a molecular chaperone involved in the maturation of a
plethora of substrates (“clients”), including protein kinases, transcription factors, and E3 …

Small heat shock proteins, big impact on protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease

JM Webster, AL Darling, VN Uversky… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Misfolding, aggregation, and aberrant accumulation of proteins are central components in
the progression of neurodegenerative disease. Cellular molecular chaperone systems …

Disassembly of Tau fibrils by the human Hsp70 disaggregation machinery generates small seeding-competent species

E Nachman, AS Wentink, K Madiona, L Bousset… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
The accumulation of amyloid Tau aggregates is implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and
other tauopathies. Molecular chaperones are known to maintain protein homeostasis. Here …

Protein disaggregation in multicellular organisms

NB Nillegoda, AS Wentink, B Bukau - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Protein aggregates are formed in cells with profoundly perturbed proteostasis, where the
generation of misfolded proteins exceeds the cellular refolding and degradative capacity …

Spiraling in control: structures and mechanisms of the Hsp104 disaggregase

J Shorter, DR Southworth - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Hsp104 is a hexameric AAA+ ATPase and protein disaggregase found in yeast, which
couples ATP hydrolysis to the dissolution of diverse polypeptides trapped in toxic …

Tau–RNA complexes inhibit microtubule polymerization and drive disease-relevant conformation change

PJ McMillan, SJ Benbow, R Uhrich, A Saxton, M Baum… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease and related disorders feature neurofibrillary tangles and other
neuropathological lesions composed of detergent-insoluble tau protein. In recent structural …

Peptidyl prolyl isomerase A modulates the liquid–liquid phase separation of proline-rich IDPs

M Babu, F Favretto, M Rankovic… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and the
action of molecular chaperones are tightly connected. An important class of molecular …

Modulation of disordered proteins with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and other pathologies

AHS Martinelli, FC Lopes, EBO John… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not have rigid 3D structures, showing changes in
their folding depending on the environment or ligands. Intrinsically disordered proteins are …

Secreted retrovirus-like GAG-domain-containing protein PEG10 is regulated by UBE3A and is involved in Angelman syndrome pathophysiology

NJ Pandya, C Wang, V Costa, P Lopatta, S Meier… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the loss of maternal
UBE3A, a ubiquitin protein ligase E3A. Here, we study neurons derived from patients with …