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 …

Effects of in vivo conditions on amyloid aggregation

MC Owen, D Gnutt, M Gao, SKTS Wärmländer… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the grand challenges of biophysical chemistry is to understand the principles that
govern protein misfolding and aggregation, which is a highly complex process that is …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-aided nanodrug discovery: recent progress and future prospects

JJ Zheng, QZ Li, Z Wang, X Wang, Y Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanodrugs, which utilise nanomaterials in disease prevention and therapy, have attracted
considerable interest since their initial conceptualisation in the 1990s. Substantial efforts …

Fluorescent probes for bioimaging of potential biomarkers in Parkinson's disease

L Gao, W Wang, X Wang, F Yang, L **e… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Parkinson's disease (PD), as the second most common neurodegenerative disease, is
caused by complex pathological processes and currently remains very difficult to treat. PD …

Physics-based computational and theoretical approaches to intrinsically disordered proteins

JE Shea, RB Best, J Mittal - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Liquid-liquid phase separation underlies the formation of membraneless
organelles within cells.•Theory and molecular simulations help to relate interactions at the …

Bioinspired crowding directs supramolecular polymerisation

N Bäumer, E Castellanos, B Soberats… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Crowding effects are crucial to maintaining functionality in biological systems, but little is
known about their role in analogous artificial counterparts. Within the growing field of …

Crowding in cellular environments at an atomistic level from computer simulations

M Feig, I Yu, P Wang, G Nawrocki… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The effects of crowding in biological environments on biomolecular structure, dynamics, and
function remain not well understood. Computer simulations of atomistic models of …

Disorder-to-order transition of the amyloid-β peptide upon lipid binding

H Fatafta, B Kav, BF Bundschuh, J Loschwitz… - Biophysical …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is mounting evidence that Alzheimer's disease progression and severity are linked to
neuronal membrane damage caused by aggregates of the amyloid-β (A β) peptide …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid growth and membrane damage: Current themes and emerging perspectives from theory and experiments on Aβ and hIAPP

MFM Sciacca, C Tempra, F Scollo, D Milardi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are two incurable diseases
both hallmarked by an abnormal deposition of the amyloidogenic peptides Aβ and Islet …

Amyloid-β peptide dimers undergo a random coil to β-sheet transition in the aqueous phase but not at the neuronal membrane

H Fatafta, M Khaled, MC Owen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Mounting evidence suggests that the neuronal cell membrane is the main site of oligomer-
mediated neuronal toxicity of amyloid-β peptides in Alzheimer's disease. To gain a detailed …