Principles of protein folding, misfolding and aggregation

CM Dobson - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2004 - Elsevier
This review summarises our current understanding of the underlying and universal
mechanism by which newly synthesised proteins achieve their biologically functional states …

Protein-based inheritance: epigenetics beyond the chromosome

ZH Harvey, Y Chen, DF Jarosz - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Epigenetics refers to changes in phenotype that are not rooted in DNA sequence. This
phenomenon has largely been studied in the context of chromatin modification. Yet many …

Cryo-EM structure of a neuronal functional amyloid implicated in memory persistence in Drosophila

R Hervas, MJ Rau, Y Park, W Zhang, AG Murzin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
How long-lived memories withstand molecular turnover is a fundamental question.
Aggregates of a prion-like RNA-binding protein, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element …

Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences

M Tanaka, P Chien, N Naber, R Cooke, JS Weissman - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
A remarkable feature of prion biology is the strain phenomenon wherein prion particles
apparently composed of the same protein lead to phenotypically distinct transmissible …

[HTML][HTML] Folding versus aggregation: polypeptide conformations on competing pathways

TR Jahn, SE Radford - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation has now become recognised as an important and generic aspect of
protein energy landscapes. Since the discovery that numerous human diseases are caused …

Seeding specificity in amyloid growth induced by heterologous fibrils

B O'Nuallain, AD Williams, P Westermark… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Over residues 15–36, which comprise the H-bonded core of the amyloid fibrils it forms, the
Alzheimer's disease plaque peptide amyloid β (Aβ) possesses a very similar sequence to …

Resveratrol selectively remodels soluble oligomers and fibrils of amyloid Aβ into off-pathway conformers

ARA Ladiwala, JC Lin, SS Bale… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Misfolded proteins associated with diverse aggregation disorders assemble not only into a
single toxic conformer but rather into a suite of aggregated conformers with unique …

Structural insights into a yeast prion illuminate nucleation and strain diversity

R Krishnan, SL Lindquist - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Self-perpetuating changes in the conformations of amyloidogenic proteins play vital roles in
normal biology and disease. Despite intense research, the architecture and conformational …

Polymorphism in the intermediates and products of amyloid assembly

R Kodali, R Wetzel - Current opinion in structural biology, 2007 - Elsevier
Amyloid formation reactions exhibit two classes of polymorphisms: the metastable
intermediates commonly observed during amyloid formation and the range of …

The structural basis of yeast prion strain variants

BH Toyama, MJS Kelly, JD Gross, JS Weissman - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Among the many surprises to arise from studies of prion biology, perhaps the most
unexpected is the strain phenomenon whereby a single protein can misfold into structurally …