Misfolded protein oligomers: Mechanisms of formation, cytotoxic effects, and pharmacological approaches against protein misfolding diseases

DJ Rinauro, F Chiti, M Vendruscolo… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
The conversion of native peptides and proteins into amyloid aggregates is a hallmark of over
50 human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Increasing evidence …

Protein misfolding, amyloid formation, and human disease: a summary of progress over the last decade

F Chiti, CM Dobson - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Peptides and proteins have been found to possess an inherent tendency to convert from
their native functional states into intractable amyloid aggregates. This phenomenon is …

Noncoding translation mitigation

JS Kesner, Z Chen, P Shi, AO Aparicio, MR Murphy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Translation is pervasive outside of canonical coding regions, occurring in long noncoding
RNAs, canonical untranslated regions and introns,,–, especially in ageing …

Protein–Sol: a web tool for predicting protein solubility from sequence

M Hebditch, MA Carballo-Amador, S Charonis… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein solubility is an important property in industrial and therapeutic
applications. Prediction is a challenge, despite a growing understanding of the relevant …

Cellular protein aggregates: formation, biological effects, and ways of elimination

JH Wen, XH He, ZS Feng, DY Li, JX Tang… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The accumulation of protein aggregates is the hallmark of many neurodegenerative
diseases. The dysregulation of protein homeostasis (or proteostasis) caused by acute …

The amyloid state and its association with protein misfolding diseases

TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The phenomenon of protein aggregation and amyloid formation has become the subject of
rapidly increasing research activities across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Such …

Cell-wide analysis of protein thermal unfolding reveals determinants of thermostability

P Leuenberger, S Ganscha, A Kahraman, V Cappelletti… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Temperature is crucially important to life. Small temperature changes can
differentiate optimal and lethal growth conditions of living organisms. Because of the higher …

Generic nature of the condensed states of proteins

M Fuxreiter, M Vendruscolo - Nature cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Proteins undergoing liquid–liquid phase separation are being discovered at an increasing
rate. Since at the high concentrations present in the cell most proteins would be expected to …

Inhibiting de novo ceramide synthesis restores mitochondrial and protein homeostasis in muscle aging

TI Lima, PP Laurila, M Wohlwend, JD Morel… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
Disruption of mitochondrial function and protein homeostasis plays a central role in aging.
However, how these processes interact and what governs their failure in aging remain …

Heavy metals and metalloids as a cause for protein misfolding and aggregation

MJ Tamás, SK Sharma, S Ibstedt, T Jacobson… - Biomolecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
While the toxicity of metals and metalloids, like arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead and
chromium, is undisputed, the underlying molecular mechanisms are not entirely clear …