Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Molecular pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloids

SHW Scheres, B Ryskeldi-Falcon, M Goedert - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abnormal assembly of tau, α-synuclein, TDP-43 and amyloid-β proteins into amyloid
filaments defines most human neurodegenerative diseases. Genetics provides a direct link …

Structures of α-synuclein filaments from human brains with Lewy pathology

Y Yang, Y Shi, M Schweighauser, X Zhang, A Kotecha… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder, with resting tremor,
rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability being major symptoms. Neuropathologically, it …

Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease-type neurodegeneration

F Gonzalez-Ortiz, M Turton, PR Kac, D Smirnov… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Blood-based biomarkers for amyloid beta and phosphorylated tau show good diagnostic
accuracies and agreements with their corresponding CSF and neuroimaging biomarkers in …

Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

S Lövestam, FA Koh, B van Knippenberg, A Kotecha… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abundant filamentous inclusions of tau are characteristic of more than 20
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively termed tauopathies. Electron cryo …

Structures of α-synuclein filaments from multiple system atrophy

M Schweighauser, Y Shi, A Tarutani, F Kametani… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Synucleinopathies, which include multiple system atrophy (MSA), Parkinson's disease,
Parkinson's disease with dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), are human …

Novel tau filament fold in corticobasal degeneration

W Zhang, A Tarutani, KL Newell, AG Murzin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy—a class of disorders in
which the tau protein forms insoluble inclusions in the brain—that is characterized by motor …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between Aβ and tau in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

H Zhang, W Wei, M Zhao, L Ma, X Jiang… - … journal of biological …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Extracellular neuritic plaques composed of amyloid‑β (Aβ) protein and intracellular
neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are the two hallmark proteins of …

Novel tau filament fold in chronic traumatic encephalopathy encloses hydrophobic molecules

B Falcon, J Zivanov, W Zhang, AG Murzin, HJ Garringer… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy that is
associated with repetitive head impacts or exposure to blast waves. First described as punch …

Visualization of neurofibrillary tangle maturity in Alzheimer's disease: A clinicopathologic perspective for biomarker research

CM Moloney, VJ Lowe, ME Murray - Alzheimer's & dementia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurofibrillary tangles, one of the neuropathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, have a
dynamic lifespan of maturity that associates with progressive neuronal dysfunction and …