Animal models of neurodegenerative disease: recent advances in fly highlight innovative approaches to drug discovery

JA Tello, HE Williams, RM Eppler… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a formidable challenge to global health. As
advances in other areas of medicine grant healthy living into later decades of life, aging …

[HTML][HTML] Functional mammalian amyloids and amyloid-like proteins

MS Rubel, SA Fedotov, AV Grizel, JV Sopova… - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
Amyloids are highly ordered fibrous cross-β protein aggregates that are notorious primarily
because of association with a variety of incurable human and animal diseases (termed …

Integrated omic analysis delineates pathways modulating toxic TDP-43 protein aggregates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

S Rajaratnam, AP Soman, KS Phalguna, SS Pradhan… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multi-systemic, incurable, amyloid disease affecting
the motor neurons, resulting in the death of patients. The disease is either sporadic or …

[HTML][HTML] J-domain proteins: From molecular mechanisms to diseases

J Marszalek, P De Los Rios, D Cyr, MP Mayer… - Cell Stress and …, 2024 - Elsevier
J-domain proteins (JDPs) are the largest family of chaperones in most organisms, but much
of how they function within the network of other chaperones and protein quality control …

[HTML][HTML] Osmotic stress induces formation of both liquid condensates and amyloids by a yeast prion domain

AV Grizel, NA Gorsheneva, JB Stevenson… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid protein condensates produced by phase separation are involved in the
spatiotemporal control of cellular functions, while solid fibrous aggregates (amyloids) are …

Where and why modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

F Liguori, S Amadio, C Volonté - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the years, researchers have leveraged a host of different in vivo models in order to
dissect amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative/neuroinflammatory …

Biomolecular condensates: structure, functions, methods of research

NA Gorsheneva, JV Sopova, VV Azarov, AV Grizel… - Biochemistry …, 2024 - Springer
The term “biomolecular condensates” is used to describe membraneless compartments in
eukaryotic cells, accumulating proteins and nucleic acids. Biomolecular condensates are …

Exploring the Molecular Tapestry: Organ-Specific Peptide and Protein Ultrafiltrates and Their Role in Therapeutics

JP Slivka, C Bauer, A Younsi, MBF Wong… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study aims to characterize the proteome composition of organ-derived protein extracts
from rabbits. Protein isolation was performed using soft homogenization and size exclusion …

Detection of Fibril Nucleation in Micrometer-Sized Protein Condensates and Suppression of Sup35NM Fibril Nucleation by Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation

M Fukuyama, S Nishinami, Y Maruyama… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Elucidating the link between amyloid fibril formation and liquid–liquid phase separation
(LLPS) is crucial in understanding the pathologies of various intractable human diseases …

Amyloid fragmentation and disaggregation in yeast and animals

VV Kushnirov, AA Dergalev, AI Alexandrov - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Amyloids are filamentous protein aggregates that are associated with a number of incurable
diseases, termed amyloidoses. Amyloids can also manifest as infectious or heritable …