[HTML][HTML] Protein misfolding during pregnancy: new approaches to preeclampsia diagnostics

EM Gerasimova, SA Fedotov, DV Kachkin… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Preeclampsia (PE) is a multisystem heterogeneous complication of pregnancy remaining a
leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality over the world. PE has a …

Prion protein as a toxic acceptor of amyloid-β oligomers

SA Purro, AJ Nicoll, J Collinge - Biological psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
The initial report that cellular prion protein (PrP C) mediates toxicity of amyloid-β species
linked to Alzheimer's disease was initially treated with scepticism, but growing evidence …

Quantitative interrogation of protein co-aggregation using multi-color fluorogenic protein aggregation sensors

Y Bai, W Wan, Y Huang, W **, H Lyu, Q **a… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Co-aggregation of multiple pathogenic proteins is common in neurodegenerative diseases
but deconvolution of such biochemical process is challenging. Herein, we developed a dual …

Proteomic screening for amyloid proteins

AA Nizhnikov, AI Alexandrov, TA Ryzhova… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Despite extensive study, progress in elucidation of biological functions of amyloids and their
role in pathology is largely restrained due to the lack of universal and reliable biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Protein co-aggregation related to amyloids: methods of investigation, diversity, and classification

SA Bondarev, KS Antonets, AV Kajava… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Amyloids are unbranched protein fibrils with a characteristic spatial structure. Although the
amyloids were first described as protein deposits that are associated with the diseases …

Application of yeast to studying amyloid and prion diseases

YO Chernoff, AV Grizel, AA Rubel, AA Zelinsky… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Amyloids are fibrous cross-β protein aggregates that are capable of proliferation via
nucleated polymerization. Amyloid conformation likely represents an ancient protein fold …

Mammalian amyloidogenic proteins promote prion nucleation in yeast

P Chandramowlishwaran, M Sun, KL Casey… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - jbc.org
Fibrous cross-β aggregates (amyloids) and their transmissible forms (prions) cause
diseases in mammals (including humans) and control heritable traits in yeast. Initial …

Recent advancements in electrochemical biosensors for Alzheimer's disease biomarkers detection

E Miku - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: It is estimated that the average time between the diagnosis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and the patient's death is 5-9 years. Therefore, both the initial phase of the …

[HTML][HTML] FRET microscopy in yeast

M Skruzny, E Pohl, M Abella - Biosensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy is a powerful fluorescence
microscopy method to study the nanoscale organization of multiprotein assemblies in vivo …

Alzheimer's disease: Significant benefit from the yeast-based models

KK Epremyan, DV Mamaev… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related, multifaceted neurological disorder associated
with accumulation of aggregated proteins (amyloid Aβ and hyperphosphorylated tau), loss of …