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 …

Protein misfolding, aggregation, and conformational strains in neurodegenerative diseases

C Soto, S Pritzkow - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
A hallmark event in neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is the misfolding, aggregation, and
accumulation of proteins, leading to cellular dysfunction, loss of synaptic connections, and …

A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

Oxidative stress and beta amyloid in Alzheimer's disease. Which comes first: the chicken or the egg?

E Tamagno, M Guglielmotto, V Vasciaveo, M Tabaton - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease involves β amyloid (Aβ) accumulation known to
induce synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration. The brain's vulnerability to oxidative …

Propagation and spread of pathogenic protein assemblies in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by the progressive appearance of abnormal …

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

M Goedert - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most
common human neurodegenerative diseases. AD is primarily a dementing disease, and PD …

Propagation of tau aggregates and neurodegeneration

M Goedert, DS Eisenberg… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A pathway from the natively unfolded microtubule-associated protein Tau to a highly
structured amyloid fibril underlies human Tauopathies. This ordered assembly causes …

Alzheimer disease pathogenesis: insights from molecular and cellular biology studies of oligomeric Aβ and tau species

XQ Chen, WC Mobley - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer disease (AD) represents an oncoming epidemic that without an effective
treatment promises to exact extraordinary human and financial burdens. Studies of …

A mechanistic hypothesis for the impairment of synaptic plasticity by soluble Aβ oligomers from Alzheimer's brain

S Li, DJ Selkoe - Journal of neurochemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is increasingly accepted that early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease results in
considerable part from synaptic dysfunction caused by the accumulation of a range of …

Aβ (1–42) fibril structure illuminates self-recognition and replication of amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

Y **ao, B Ma, D McElheny, S Parthasarathy… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Increasing evidence has suggested that formation and propagation of misfolded aggregates
of 42-residue human amyloid β (Aβ (1–42)), rather than of the more abundant Aβ (1–40) …