Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

Proteostasis of islet amyloid polypeptide: a molecular perspective of risk factors and protective strategies for type II diabetes

D Milardi, E Gazit, SE Radford, Y Xu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The possible link between hIAPP accumulation and β-cell death in diabetic patients has
inspired numerous studies focusing on amyloid structures and aggregation pathways of this …

Revolutionizing medicinal chemistry: the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in early drug discovery

R Han, H Yoon, G Kim, H Lee, Y Lee - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated various sectors, including the pharmaceutical
industry and research, where it has been utilized to efficiently identify new chemical entities …

More than meets the eye in Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies: from proteinopathy to lipidopathy

M Flores-Leon, TF Outeiro - Acta neuropathologica, 2023 - Springer
The accumulation of proteinaceous inclusions in the brain is a common feature among
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease (PD), and …

Disorder-to-order transition of the amyloid-β peptide upon lipid binding

H Fatafta, B Kav, BF Bundschuh, J Loschwitz… - Biophysical …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is mounting evidence that Alzheimer's disease progression and severity are linked to
neuronal membrane damage caused by aggregates of the amyloid-β (A β) peptide …

Spike Protein Fragments Promote Alzheimer's Amyloidogenesis

S Cao, Z Song, J Rong, N Andrikopoulos… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of dementia inducing memory loss, cognitive
decline, and mortality among the aging population. While the amyloid aggregation of …

C-terminal truncation modulates α-Synuclein's cytotoxicity and aggregation by promoting the interactions with membrane and chaperone

C Zhang, Y Pei, Z Zhang, L Xu, X Liu, L Jiang… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-syn) is the main protein component of Lewy bodies, the major
pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD). C-terminally truncated α-syn is found in …

Amyloid aggregates exert cell toxicity causing irreversible damages in the endoplasmic reticulum

M Matveyenka, S Rizevsky, D Kurouski - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amyloid oligomers and fibrils are protein aggregates that cause an onset and progression of
many neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes type 2 and systemic amyloidosis. Although a …

Imaging Amyloid‐β Membrane Interactions: Ion‐Channel Pores and Lipid‐Bilayer Permeability in Alzheimer's Disease

JH Viles - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of the amyloid‐β peptides (Aβ) is central to the development of
Alzheimer's disease. The mechanism by which Aβ triggers a cascade of events that leads to …

Free gangliosides can alter amyloid-β aggregation

A Chakravorty, SD McCalpin, BR Sahoo… - The journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A recently proposed lipid-chaperone hypothesis suggests that free lipid molecules, not
bound to membranes, affect the aggregation of amyloidogenic peptides such as amyloid-β …