Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

New insights into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

L Fan, C Mao, X Hu, S Zhang, Z Yang, Z Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common neurodegenerative disease in the elderly and the most
prevalent cause of dementia, is characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. The …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …

Structural variation in amyloid-β fibrils from Alzheimer's disease clinical subtypes

W Qiang, WM Yau, JX Lu, J Collinge, R Tycko - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Aggregation of amyloid-β peptides into fibrils or other self-assembled states is central to the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Fibrils formed in vitro by 40-and 42-residue amyloid-β …

Aβ (1–42) fibril structure illuminates self-recognition and replication of amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

Y **ao, B Ma, D McElheny, S Parthasarathy… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Increasing evidence has suggested that formation and propagation of misfolded aggregates
of 42-residue human amyloid β (Aβ (1–42)), rather than of the more abundant Aβ (1–40) …

Interactions of pathological proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

TL Spires-Jones, J Attems, DR Thal - Acta neuropathologica, 2017 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTD), Lewy body disease (LBD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic …

Targeting protein aggregation for the treatment of degenerative diseases

YS Eisele, C Monteiro, C Fearns… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
The aggregation of specific proteins is hypothesized to underlie several degenerative
diseases, which are collectively known as amyloid disorders. However, the mechanistic …

1001 lights: luciferins, luciferases, their mechanisms of action and applications in chemical analysis, biology and medicine

ZM Kaskova, AS Tsarkova, IV Yampolsky - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioluminescence (BL) is a spectacular phenomenon involving light emission by live
organisms. It is caused by the oxidation of a small organic molecule, luciferin, with molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid polymorphism: structural basis and neurobiological relevance

R Tycko - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Our understanding of the molecular structures of amyloid fibrils that are associated with
neurodegenerative diseases, of mechanisms by which disease-associated peptides and …

Neurodegenerative diseases: expanding the prion concept

LC Walker, M Jucker - Annual review of neuroscience, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The prion paradigm has emerged as a unifying molecular principle for the pathogenesis of
many age-related neurodegenerative diseases. This paradigm holds that a fundamental …