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 …

Simulation studies of amyloidogenic polypeptides and their aggregates

IM Ilie, A Caflisch - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Amyloids, fibrillar assembly of (poly) peptide chains, are associated with neurodegenerative
illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, for which there are no cures. The …

Surface molecular pump enables ultrahigh catalyst activity

J Huang, B Peng, C Zhu, M Xu, Y Liu, Z Liu, J Zhou… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The performance of electrocatalysts is critical for renewable energy technologies. While the
electrocatalytic activity can be modulated through structural and compositional engineering …

Amyloid aggregation simulations: challenges, advances and perspectives

B Strodel - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
In amyloid aggregation diseases soluble proteins coalesce into a wide array of undesirable
structures, ranging through oligomers and prefibrillar assemblies to highly ordered amyloid …

Key residue for aggregation of Amyloid-β peptides

SG Itoh, M Yagi-Utsumi, K Kato… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is known that oligomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Aβ has two isoforms: Aβ40 and Aβ42. Although the difference between Aβ40 and Aβ42 is …

Cryo-EM structure of a lysozyme-derived amyloid fibril from hereditary amyloidosis

S Karimi-Farsijani, K Sharma, M Ugrina, L Kuhn… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Systemic ALys amyloidosis is a debilitating protein misfolding disease that arises from the
formation of amyloid fibrils from C-type lysozyme. We here present a 2.8 Å cryo-electron …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembling peptide biomaterials: Insights from spontaneous and enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations

BJ Williams-Noonan, A Kamboukos… - Chemical Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Peptide self-assembly is the process by which peptide molecules aggregate into low
dimensional (1D, 2D) or 3D ordered materials with potential applications ranging from drug …

Ultrafast hole relaxation dynamics in quantum dots revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

PJ Brosseau, JJ Geuchies, D Jasrasaria… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating the population dynamics of correlated electron-hole pairs (bound excitons) in
semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) is key for develo** our fundamental understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] The role of water in the primary nucleation of protein amyloid aggregation

JD Camino, P Gracia, N Cremades - Biophysical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The understanding of the complex conformational landscape of amyloid aggregation and its
modulation by relevant physicochemical and cellular factors is a prerequisite for elucidating …

What can molecular assembly learn from catalysed assembly in living organisms?

ZC Lei, X Wang, L Yang, H Qu, Y Sun, Y Yang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular assembly is the process of organizing individual molecules into larger structures
and complex systems. The self-assembly approach is predominantly utilized in creating …