Protein transmission in neurodegenerative disease

C Peng, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the intracellular or extracellular
aggregation of misfolded proteins such as amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer disease, α …

Modeling Parkinson's disease with the alpha-synuclein protein

M Gómez-Benito, N Granado, P García-Sanz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology. PD
is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neuronal cells in the substantia nigra pars …

Block of A1 astrocyte conversion by microglia is neuroprotective in models of Parkinson's disease

SP Yun, TI Kam, N Panicker, SM Kim, Y Oh, JS Park… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Activation of microglia by classical inflammatory mediators can convert astrocytes into a
neurotoxic A1 phenotype in a variety of neurological diseases,. Development of agents that …

CD22 blockade restores homeostatic microglial phagocytosis in ageing brains

JV Pluvinage, MS Haney, BAH Smith, J Sun, T Iram… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Microglia maintain homeostasis in the central nervous system through phagocytic clearance
of protein aggregates and cellular debris. This function deteriorates during ageing and …

Impaired dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

KML Cramb, D Beccano-Kelly, SJ Cragg… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and yet the
early pathophysiological events of the condition and sequences of dysfunction remain …

Hierarchical materials from high information content macromolecular building blocks: construction, dynamic interventions, and prediction

L Shao, J Ma, JL Prelesnik, Y Zhou, M Nguyen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical materials that exhibit order over multiple length scales are ubiquitous in nature.
Because hierarchy gives rise to unique properties and functions, many have sought …

Microglia response during Parkinson's disease: alpha-synuclein intervention

SA Ferreira, M Romero-Ramos - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The discovery of the central role played by the protein alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's
disease and other Lewy body brain disorders has had a great relevance in the …

O-GlcNAc forces an α-synuclein amyloid strain with notably diminished seeding and pathology

AT Balana, AL Mahul-Mellier, BA Nguyen… - Nature chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Amyloid-forming proteins such α-synuclein and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's disease, can form different fibril structures or strains with distinct toxic properties …

Lewy body-like alpha-synuclein inclusions trigger reactive microgliosis prior to nigral degeneration

MF Duffy, TJ Collier, JR Patterson, CJ Kemp… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Converging evidence suggests a role for microglia-mediated
neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease (PD). Animal models of PD can serve as a …

Mouse α-synuclein fibrils are structurally and functionally distinct from human fibrils associated with Lewy body diseases

A Sokratian, Y Zhou, M Tatli, KJ Burbidge, E Xu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The intricate process of α-synuclein aggregation and fibrillization holds pivotal roles in
Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). While mouse α-synuclein can …