Protein misfolding and amyloid nucleation through liquid–liquid phase separation

S Mukherjee, M Poudyal, K Dave, P Kadu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an emerging phenomenon in cell physiology and
diseases. The weak multivalent interaction prerequisite for LLPS is believed to be facilitated …

Gut dysbiosis, defective autophagy and altered immune responses in neurodegenerative diseases: Tales of a vicious cycle

SB Chidambaram, MM Essa, AG Rathipriya… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The human microbiota comprises trillions of symbiotic microorganisms and is involved in
regulating gastrointestinal (GI), immune, nervous system and metabolic homeostasis …

Glial contributions to neurodegeneration in tauopathies

CEG Leyns, DM Holtzman - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2017 - Springer
Tauopathies are a broad set of neurodegenerative dementias characterized by aggregation
of the tau protein into filamentous inclusions that can be found in neurons and glial cells …

The role of autophagy in neurodegenerative disease

RA Nixon - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative process used to recycle obsolete cellular constituents
and eliminate damaged organelles and protein aggregates. These substrates reach …

Converging mechanisms in ALS and FTD: disrupted RNA and protein homeostasis

SC Ling, M Polymenidou, DW Cleveland - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Breakthrough discoveries identifying common genetic causes for amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have transformed our view of these …

Spreading of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on human studies

J Brettschneider, KD Tredici, VMY Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The progression of many neurodegenerative diseases is thought to be driven by the
template-directed misfolding, seeded aggregation and cell–cell transmission of …

Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

M Jucker, LC Walker - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
For several decades scientists have speculated that the key to understanding age-related
neurodegenerative disorders may be found in the unusual biology of the prion diseases …

Physiological functions and pathobiology of TDP‐43 and FUS/TLS proteins

A Ratti, E Buratti - Journal of neurochemistry, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The multiple roles played by RNA binding proteins in neurodegeneration have become
apparent following the discovery of TAR DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP‐43) and fused in …

Stages of pTDP‐43 pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Brettschneider, K Del Tredici, JB Toledo… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To see whether the distribution patterns of phosphorylated 43kDa TAR DNA‐
binding protein (pTDP‐43) intraneuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

RAN proteins and RNA foci from antisense transcripts in C9ORF72 ALS and frontotemporal dementia

T Zu, Y Liu, M Bañez-Coronel, T Reid… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
The finding that a GGGGCC (G4C2) hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the chromosome 9
ORF 72 (C9ORF72) gene is a common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …