Helical reconstruction, again

EH Egelman - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Many protein and nucleoprotein complexes exist as helical polymers. As a result, much effort
has been invested in develo** methods for using electron microscopy to determine the …

Data-driven regularization lowers the size barrier of cryo-EM structure determination

D Kimanius, K Jamali, ME Wilkinson, S Lövestam… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Macromolecular structure determination by electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) is limited by
the alignment of noisy images of individual particles. Because smaller particles have weaker …

[HTML][HTML] Context-dependent, fuzzy protein interactions: Towards sequence-based insights

M Fuxreiter - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting protein interactions in the cellular environment still remains a challenge in the
AlphaFold era. Protein interactions, similarly to their structures, sample a continuum from …

CryoET of β-amyloid and tau within postmortem Alzheimer's disease brain

MAG Gilbert, N Fatima, J Jenkins, TJ O'Sullivan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
A defining pathological feature of most neurodegenerative diseases is the assembly of
proteins into amyloid that form disease-specific structures. In Alzheimer's disease, this is …

AggreProt: a web server for predicting and engineering aggregation prone regions in proteins

J Planas-Iglesias, S Borko, J Swiatkowski… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recombinant proteins play pivotal roles in numerous applications including industrial
biocatalysts or therapeutics. Despite the recent progress in computational protein structure …

Structural evolution of fibril polymorphs during amyloid assembly

M Wilkinson, Y Xu, D Thacker, AIP Taylor, DG Fisher… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) has provided unprecedented insights into amyloid fibril
structures, including those associated with disease. However, these structures represent the …

Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease

SL Fowler, TS Behr, E Turkes, DP O'Brien… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The abnormal assembly of tau protein in neurons is a pathological hallmark of multiple
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembled tau associates …

Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments from the brains of mice transgenic for human mutant P301S Tau

M Schweighauser, AG Murzin, J Macdonald… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Mice transgenic for human mutant P301S tau are widely used as models for human
tauopathies. They develop neurodegeneration and abundant filamentous inclusions made …

Cryo-EM structures of Aβ40 filaments from the leptomeninges of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Y Yang, AG Murzin, S Peak-Chew, C Franco… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
We used electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the structures of Aβ40 filaments
from the leptomeninges of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid …

The enigma of tau protein aggregation: mechanistic insights and future challenges

H Zheng, H Sun, Q Cai, HC Tai - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Tau protein misfolding and aggregation are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease
and over twenty neurodegenerative disorders. However, the molecular mechanisms of tau …