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 …

Proteostasis of islet amyloid polypeptide: a molecular perspective of risk factors and protective strategies for type II diabetes

D Milardi, E Gazit, SE Radford, Y Xu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The possible link between hIAPP accumulation and β-cell death in diabetic patients has
inspired numerous studies focusing on amyloid structures and aggregation pathways of this …

Plasma membrane translocation of trimerized MLKL protein is required for TNF-induced necroptosis

Z Cai, S Jitkaew, J Zhao, HC Chiang, S Choksi… - Nature cell …, 2014 - nature.com
The mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) has recently been identified as a key
RIP3 (receptor interacting protein 3) downstream component of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) …

Structure based aggregation studies reveal the presence of helix-rich intermediate during α-Synuclein aggregation

D Ghosh, PK Singh, S Sahay, NN Jha, RS Jacob… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Mechanistic understanding of nucleation dependent polymerization by α-synuclein (α-Syn)
into toxic oligomers and amyloids is important for the drug development against Parkinson's …

Protein folding and aggregation into amyloid: the interference by natural phenolic compounds

M Stefani, S Rigacci - International journal of molecular sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
Amyloid aggregation is a hallmark of several degenerative diseases affecting the brain or
peripheral tissues, whose intermediates (oligomers, protofibrils) and final mature fibrils …

Graphene quantum dots against human IAPP aggregation and toxicity in vivo

M Wang, Y Sun, X Cao, G Peng, I Javed, A Kakinen… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of biocompatible nanomaterials has become a new frontier in the
detection, treatment and prevention of human amyloid diseases. Here we demonstrated the …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid growth and membrane damage: Current themes and emerging perspectives from theory and experiments on Aβ and hIAPP

MFM Sciacca, C Tempra, F Scollo, D Milardi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two incurable diseases
both hallmarked by an abnormal deposition of the amyloidogenic peptides Aβ and Islet …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of membrane curvature on amyloid aggregation

MS Terakawa, Y Lin, M Kinoshita, S Kanemura… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
The misfolding, amyloid aggregation, and fibril formation of intrinsically disordered
proteins/peptides (or amyloid proteins) have been shown to cause a number of disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the molecular genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus

A Brunetti, E Chiefari, D Foti - World journal of diabetes, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex disease in which both genetic and
environmental factors interact in determining impaired β-cell insulin secretion and peripheral …

Islet amyloid polypeptide membrane interactions: effects of membrane composition

X Zhang, JR St. Clair, E London, DP Raleigh - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Amyloid formation by islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) contributes to β-cell dysfunction in
type 2 diabetes. Perturbation of the β-cell membrane may contribute to IAPP-induced …