[HTML][HTML] Small molecule therapeutics for tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease: walking on the path of most resistance

L Wang, R Kumar, PF Pavlov, B Winblad - European journal of medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by presence
of extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of tau …

HSPA8/HSC70 in immune disorders: a molecular rheostat that adjusts chaperone-mediated autophagy substrates

SR Bonam, M Ruff, S Muller - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
HSPA8/HSC70 is a molecular chaperone involved in a wide variety of cellular processes. It
plays a crucial role in protein quality control, ensuring the correct folding and re-folding of …

Pathogenic tau impairs axon initial segment plasticity and excitability homeostasis

PD Sohn, CTL Huang, R Yan, L Fan, TE Tracy… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Dysregulation of neuronal excitability underlies the pathogenesis of tauopathies, including
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with tau inclusions. A majority of FTD-causing tau mutations …

Map** interactions with the chaperone network reveals factors that protect against tau aggregation

SA Mok, C Condello, R Freilich, A Gillies… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
A network of molecular chaperones is known to bind proteins ('clients') and balance their
folding, function and turnover. However, it is often unclear which chaperones are critical for …

Function, therapeutic potential, and inhibition of Hsp70 chaperones

AJ Ambrose, E Chapman - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hsp70s are among the most highly conserved proteins in all of biology. Through an iterative
binding and release of exposed hydrophobic residues on client proteins, Hsp70s can …

Bromo-protopine, a novel protopine derivative, alleviates tau pathology by activating chaperone-mediated autophagy for Alzheimer's disease therapy

SG Sreenivasmurthy, A Iyaswamy… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Emerging evidence from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients suggests that reducing tau
pathology can restore cognitive and memory loss. To reduce tau pathology, it is critical to …

HSP70 and HSP90 in neurodegenerative diseases

A Gupta, A Bansal, K Hashimoto-Torii - Neuroscience letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular chaperones have a role to stabilize proteins or assist them in reaching their native
fold. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of molecular chaperons that protect proteins …

Protein–protein interactions in the molecular chaperone network

R Freilich, T Arhar, JL Abrams… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Molecular chaperones play a central role in protein homeostasis (aka
proteostasis) by balancing protein folding, quality control, and turnover. To perform these …

Exploration of benzothiazole rhodacyanines as allosteric inhibitors of protein–protein interactions with heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70)

H Shao, X Li, MA Moses, LA Gilbert… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cancer cells rely on the chaperone heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) for survival and
proliferation. Recently, benzothiazole rhodacyanines have been shown to bind an allosteric …

Hsp70 inhibits the nucleation and elongation of tau and sequesters tau aggregates with high affinity

F Kundel, S De, P Flagmeier, MH Horrocks… - ACS chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
As a key player of the protein quality control network of the cell, the molecular chaperone
Hsp70 inhibits the aggregation of the amyloid protein tau. To date, the mechanism of this …