Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

SJ Andrews, AE Renton, B Fulton-Howard… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative
disorder and the most common form of dementia. AD is highly heritable, with heritability …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multimodal cell atlas of Alzheimer's disease

MI Gabitto, KJ Travaglini, VM Rachleff, ES Kaplan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. Although AD
progression is characterized by stereotyped accumulation of proteinopathies, the affected …

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 …

APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer's disease microglia

MS Haney, R Pálovics, CN Munson, C Long… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Several genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease implicate genes involved in lipid
metabolism and many of these lipid genes are highly expressed in glial cells. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Apolipoprotein E aggregation in microglia initiates Alzheimer's disease pathology by seeding β-amyloidosis

S Kaji, SA Berghoff, L Spieth, L Schlaphoff, AO Sasmita… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
The seeded growth of pathogenic protein aggregates underlies the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how this pathological cascade is initiated is not fully …

Multifaceted roles of APOE in Alzheimer disease

RJ Jackson, BT Hyman, A Serrano-Pozo - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2024 - nature.com
For the past three decades, apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been known as the single greatest
genetic modulator of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) risk, influencing both the average age …

Amelioration of Tau and ApoE4-linked glial lipid accumulation and neurodegeneration with an LXR agonist

A Litvinchuk, JH Suh, JL Guo, K Lin, SS Davis… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a strong genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(LOAD). APOE4 increases and APOE2 decreases risk relative to APOE3. In the P301S …

Enrichr-KG: bridging enrichment analysis across multiple libraries

JE Evangelista, Z **e, GB Marino… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene and protein set enrichment analysis is a critical step in the analysis of data collected
from omics experiments. Enrichr is a popular gene set enrichment analysis web-server …

[HTML][HTML] Apolipoprotein E in lipid metabolism and neurodegenerative disease

LG Yang, ZM March, RA Stephenson… - Trends in Endocrinology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Dysregulation of lipid metabolism has emerged as a central component of many
neurodegenerative diseases. Variants of the lipid transport protein, apolipoprotein E …