Interrogating amyloid aggregates using fluorescent probes

A Aliyan, NP Cook, AA Martí - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Amyloids are a broad class of proteins and peptides that can misfold and assemble into long
unbranched fibrils with a cross-β conformation. These misfolding and aggregation events …

Recent advances in electrochemical biosensors for the detection of Aβ42, a biomarker for Alzheimer disease diagnosis

M Ding, S Ding, D Du, X Wang, X Hu, P Guan… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with a long latency in
the" prodromal" stage, for which there are currently no effective treatments. It is generally …

A dual‐functional BODIPY‐based molecular rotor probe reveals different viscosity of protein aggregates in live cells

B Shen, KH Jung, S Ye, CA Hoelzel… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant protein aggregation leads to various human diseases, but little is known about the
physical chemical properties of these aggregated proteins in cells. Herein, we developed a …

Rational Design of Crystallization‐Induced‐Emission Probes To Detect Amorphous Protein Aggregation in Live Cells

D Shen, W **, Y Bai, Y Huang, H Lyu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike amyloid aggregates, amorphous protein aggregates with no defined structures have
been challenging to target and detect in a complex cellular milieu. In this study, we rationally …

Ruthenium (II) complexes with dppz: from molecular photoswitch to biological applications

G Li, L Sun, L Ji, H Chao - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The DNA photoswitch [Ru (bpy) 2dppz] 2+(bpy= 2, 2′-bipyridine, dppz= dipyrido [3, 2-a:
2′, 3′-c] phenazine) has attracted much attention and become a powerful tool for studying …

Metal complexes designed to bind to amyloid-β for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

DJ Hayne, SC Lim, PS Donnelly - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of age-related neurodegenerative dementia.
The disease is characterised by the presence of plaques in the cerebral cortex. The major …

Metal complexes that bind to the amyloid-β peptide of relevance to Alzheimer's disease

LMF Gomes, JC Bataglioli, T Storr - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and is a multi-faceted
disease that is characterized by oxidative stress, metal-ion dysregulation, and the formation …

Highly sensitive near-infrared fluorophores for in vivo detection of amyloid-β plaques in Alzheimer's disease

H Fu, M Cui, L Zhao, P Tu, K Zhou… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by the accumulation of β-amyloid
(Aβ) deposits in the parenchymal and cortical brain. In this work, we designed, synthesized …

A high affinity red fluorescence and colorimetric probe for amyloid β aggregates

K Rajasekhar, N Narayanaswamy, NA Murugan… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A major challenge in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) is its timely diagnosis. Amyloid β (Aβ)
aggregates have been proposed as the most viable biomarker for the diagnosis of AD. Here …

Metallointercalators-DNA tetrahedron supramolecular self-assemblies with increased serum stability

MA Joaqui-Joaqui, Z Maxwell… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of metallointercalators into DNA nanocages is a rapid and facile approach to
synthesize discrete bioinorganic host/guest structures with a high load of metal complexes …