Cell biology and pathophysiology of α-synuclein

J Burré, M Sharma, TC Südhof - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
α-Synuclein is an abundant neuronal protein that is highly enriched in presynaptic nerve
terminals. Genetics and neuropathology studies link α-synuclein to Parkinson's disease (PD) …

α-synuclein in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease

D Twohig, HM Nielsen - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2019 - Springer
The Alzheimer's disease (AD) afflicted brain is neuropathologically defined by extracellular
amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles composed of …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenic impact of α-synuclein phosphorylation and its kinases in α-synucleinopathies

I Kawahata, DI Finkelstein, K Fukunaga - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
α-Synuclein is a protein with a molecular weight of 14.5 kDa and consists of 140 amino
acids encoded by the SNCA gene. Missense mutations and gene duplications in the SNCA …

Implication of alpha-synuclein phosphorylation at S129 in synucleinopathies: what have we learned in the last decade?

A Oueslati - Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Abnormal accumulation of proteinaceous intraneuronal inclusions called Lewy bodies (LBs)
is the neurpathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies …

Paramagnetic chemical probes for studying biological macromolecules

Q Miao, C Nitsche, H Orton, M Overhand… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

Theory, practice, and applications of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement for the characterization of transient low-population states of biological macromolecules …

GM Clore, J Iwahara - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Understanding the function of biological macromolecules and their complexes at the
physicochemical level requires knowledge of both their structure and dynamics …

Role of post-translational modifications in modulating the structure, function and toxicity of α-synuclein: implications for Parkinson's disease pathogenesis and …

A Oueslati, M Fournier, HA Lashuel - Progress in brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
A better understanding of the molecular and cellular determinants that influence the
pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is essential for develo** effective diagnostic …

Alpha-synuclein function and dysfunction on cellular membranes

D Snead, D Eliezer - Experimental neurobiology, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alpha-synuclein is a small neuronal protein that is closely associated with the etiology of
Parkinson's disease. Mutations in and alterations in expression levels of alpha-synuclein …

Visualizing transient dark states by NMR spectroscopy

NJ Anthis, GM Clore - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Myriad biological processes proceed through states that defy characterization by
conventional atomic-resolution structural biological methods. The invisibility of these …

Functional and pathological effects of α-synuclein on synaptic SNARE complexes

V Gao, JA Briano, LE Komer, J Burré - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract α-Synuclein is an abundant protein at the neuronal synapse that has been
implicated in Parkinson's disease for over 25 years and characterizes the hallmark …