Peptides for disrupting and degrading amyloids

CQ Liang, YM Li - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Amyloid proteins can aggregate into insoluble fibrils and form amyloid deposits in the
human brain, which is the hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Promising …

A Snake Venom Peptide and Its Derivatives Prevent Aβ42 Aggregation and Eliminate Toxic Aβ42 Aggregates In Vitro

LC Camargo, I Gering, M Mastalipour… - ACS chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over a century has passed since Alois Alzheimer first described Alzheimer's disease (AD),
and since then, researchers have made significant strides in understanding its pathology …

Discovery of highly bioactive peptides through hierarchical structural information and molecular dynamics simulations

S Li, L Peng, L Chen, L Que, W Kang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Peptide drugs play an essential role in modern therapeutics, but the computational design of
these molecules is hindered by several challenges. Traditional methods like molecular …

Computational studies of protein aggregation mediated by amyloid: fibril elongation and secondary nucleation

Y Cao, X Tang, M Yuan, W Han - Progress in Molecular Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Amyloid formation by proteins and peptides is the hallmark of many diseases. Growing
evidence suggests that oligomeric species arising during aggregation are toxic, but the …

Small molecule-mediated co-assembly of amyloid-β oligomers reduces neurotoxicity through promoting non-fibrillar aggregation

H Liu, C Qian, T Yang, Y Wang, J Luo, C Zhang… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers, particularly low molecular weight (LMW) oligomers, rather than
fibrils, contribute very significantly to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) …

Differential fibril morphologies and thermostability determine functional roles of Staphylococcus aureus PSMα1 and PSMα3

B Rayan, E Barnea, A Khokhlov, A Upcher… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Phenol-soluble modulins (PSMs) are virulent peptides secreted by staphylococci that
undergo self-assembly into amyloid fibrils. This study focuses on Staphylococcus aureus …

Therapeutic potential for amyloid surface inhibitor: only amyloid‐β oligomers formed by secondary nucleation disrupt lipid membrane integrity

Y Tian, J Liu, F Yang, C Lian, H Zhang… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibition of amyloid‐β peptide (Aβ) aggregation is a promising therapeutic strategy for
Alzheimer's disease (AD), as Aβ aggregation is generally believed to trigger AD pathology …

Anatomy and formation mechanisms of early amyloid-β oligomers with lateral branching: graph network analysis on large-scale simulations

M Yuan, X Tang, W Han - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Oligomeric amyloid-β aggregates (AβOs) effectively trigger Alzheimer's disease-related
toxicity, generating great interest in understanding their structures and formation …

Rational drug design of peptide-based therapies for sickle cell disease

OO Olubiyi, MO Olagunju, B Strodel - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited disorders affecting red blood cells, which is
caused by a single mutation that results in substitution of the amino acid valine for glutamic …

Metastable alpha‐rich and beta‐rich conformations of small Aβ42 peptide oligomers

PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Probing the structures of amyloid‐β (Aβ) peptides in the early steps of aggregation is
extremely difficult experimentally and computationally. Yet, this knowledge is extremely …