Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

Electrochemistry of nonconjugated proteins and glycoproteins. Toward sensors for biomedicine and glycomics

E Paleček, J Tkáč, M Bartosik, T Bertók… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The present advances in biology are related to progress in genomics, proteomics, and other
“-omics”, including glycomics, working with a large amount of data regarding human and …

[HTML][HTML] Folding versus aggregation: polypeptide conformations on competing pathways

TR Jahn, SE Radford - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation has now become recognised as an important and generic aspect of
protein energy landscapes. Since the discovery that numerous human diseases are caused …

Structures of the intrinsically disordered Aβ, tau and α-synuclein proteins in aqueous solution from computer simulations

PH Nguyen, P Derreumaux - Biophysical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play many biological roles in the human proteome
ranging from vesicular transport, signal transduction to neurodegenerative diseases. The Aβ …

Different force fields give rise to different amyloid aggregation pathways in molecular dynamics simulations

S Samantray, F Yin, B Kav… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The progress toward understanding the molecular basis of Alzheimers's disease is strongly
connected to elucidating the early aggregation events of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide …

Polymorphism in Alzheimer Aβ amyloid organization reflects conformational selection in a rugged energy landscape

Y Miller, B Ma, R Nussinov - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Amyloids can have normal biological functions. 1r3 However, amyloidogenic proteins can
also form unwanted oligomeric or polymeric aggregates when disturbed from their native …

Effects of All-Atom Molecular Mechanics Force Fields on Amyloid Peptide Assembly: The Case of Aβ16–22 Dimer

VH Man, X He, P Derreumaux, B Ji… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We investigated the effects of 17 widely used atomistic molecular mechanics force fields
(MMFFs) on the structures and kinetics of amyloid peptide assembly. To this end, we …

Nanomaterials design and tests for neural tissue engineering

GAA Saracino, D Cigognini, D Silva, A Caprini… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructured scaffolds recently showed great promise in tissue engineering:
nanomaterials can be tailored at the molecular level and scaffold morphology may more …

A coarse‐grained protein force field for folding and structure prediction

J Maupetit, P Tuffery… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We have revisited the protein coarse‐grained optimized potential for efficient structure
prediction (OPEP). The training and validation sets consist of 13 and 16 protein targets …