Biochemistry of amyloid β-protein and amyloid deposits in Alzheimer disease

CL Masters, DJ Selkoe - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Progressive cerebral deposition of the amyloid β-protein (Aβ) in brain regions serving
memory and cognition is an invariant and defining feature of Alzheimer disease. A highly …

Differences between amyloid-β aggregation in solution and on the membrane: insights into elucidation of the mechanistic details of Alzheimer's disease

SA Kotler, P Walsh, JR Brender… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The association of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide with cellular membranes is hypothesized to be
the underlying phenomenon of neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Misfolding of proteins …

[HTML][HTML] The role of surfaces on amyloid formation

F Grigolato, P Arosio - Biophysical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Interfaces can strongly accelerate or inhibit protein aggregation, destabilizing proteins that
are stable in solution or, conversely, stabilizing proteins that are aggregation-prone …

β‐Amyloid aggregation and heterogeneous nucleation

AK Srivastava, JM Pittman, J Zerweck… - Protein …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we consider the role of heterogeneous nucleation in β‐amyloid aggregation.
Heterogeneous nucleation is more common and occurs at lower levels of supersaturation …

Aβ polymerization through interaction with membrane gangliosides

K Matsuzaki, K Kato, K Yanagisawa - … (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Clarification of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the assembly of amyloid β-
protein (Aβ) into insoluble fibrils in the brain has been one of the biggest challenges in the …

[HTML][HTML] Aβ–ganglioside interactions in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

K Matsuzaki - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 2020 - Elsevier
It is widely accepted that the abnormal self-association of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) is central to
the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. Accumulating …

GM1 ganglioside and Alzheimer's disease

K Yanagisawa - Glycoconjugate journal, 2015 - Springer
Assembly and deposition of amyloid ß-protein (Aß) is an invariable and fundamental event
in the pathological process of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To decipher the AD pathogenesis …

Cholesterol accelerates the binding of Alzheimer's β-amyloid peptide to ganglioside GM1 through a universal hydrogen-bond-dependent sterol tuning of glycolipid …

J Fantini, N Yahi, N Garmy - Frontiers in physiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Age-related alterations of membrane lipids in brain cell membranes together with high blood
cholesterol are considered as major risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Yet the molecular …

NMR studies of amyloid interactions

DA Middleton - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amyloid fibrils are insoluble, fibrous nanostructures that accumulate extracellularly in
biological tissue during the progression of several human disorders, including Alzheimer's …

The double-layered structure of amyloid-β assemblage on GM1-containing membranes catalytically promotes fibrillization

M Yagi-Utsumi, SG Itoh, H Okumura… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with progressive accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ)
cross-β fibrils in the brain. Aβ species tightly associated with GM1 ganglioside, a …