The power of ion mobility-mass spectrometry for structural characterization and the study of conformational dynamics

F Lanucara, SW Holman, CJ Gray, CE Eyers - Nature chemistry, 2014 - nature.com
Mass spectrometry is a vital tool for molecular characterization, and the allied technique of
ion mobility is enhancing many areas of (bio) chemical analysis. Strong synergy arises …

Analysis of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease

JT Pedersen, NHH Heegaard - Analytical chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Pathological protein and peptide aggregation are key events in a number of chronic and
devastating neurodegenerative conditions including dementias such as Alzheimer's and …

Rational design of a structural framework with potential use to develop chemical reagents that target and modulate multiple facets of Alzheimer's disease

S Lee, X Zheng, J Krishnamoorthy… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by multiple, intertwined pathological features,
including amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregation, metal ion dyshomeostasis, and oxidative stress. We …

Loss of cathepsin B and L leads to lysosomal dysfunction, NPC-like cholesterol sequestration and accumulation of the key Alzheimer's proteins

S Cermak, M Kosicek, A Mladenovic-Djordjevic… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Proper function of lysosomes is particularly important in neurons, as they cannot dilute
accumulated toxic molecules and aggregates by cell division. Thus, impairment of lysosomal …

SDS-PAGE analysis of Aβ oligomers is disserving research into Alzheimer s disease: appealing for ESI-IM-MS

R Pujol-Pina, S Vilaprinyó-Pascual, R Mazzucato… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The characterization of amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) oligomer forms and structures is crucial to
the advancement in the field of Alzheimer´ s disease (AD). Here we report a critical …

Pulsed hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry probes conformational changes in amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation

Y Zhang, DL Rempel, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Probing the conformational changes of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation is
challenging owing to the vast heterogeneity of the resulting soluble aggregates. To …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in ion mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry reveal key insights into amyloid assembly

LA Woods, SE Radford, AE Ashcroft - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
Interfacing ion mobility spectrometry to mass spectrometry (IMS–MS) has enabled mass
spectrometric analyses to extend into an extra dimension, providing unrivalled separation …

Ion mobility spectrometry reveals the mechanism of amyloid formation of Aβ (25–35) and its modulation by inhibitors at the molecular level: epigallocatechin gallate …

C Bleiholder, TD Do, C Wu, NJ Economou… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Amyloid cascades leading to peptide β-sheet fibrils and plaques are central to many
important diseases. Recently, intermediate assemblies of these cascades were identified as …

Amyloid β-protein assembly: the effect of molecular tweezers CLR01 and CLR03

X Zheng, D Liu, FG Klärner, T Schrader… - The journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The early oligomerization of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) has been shown to be an important
event in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Designing small molecule inhibitors …

Tanshinones inhibit hIAPP aggregation, disaggregate preformed hIAPP fibrils, and protect cultured cells

B Ren, Y Liu, Y Zhang, M Zhang, Y Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Misfolding and aggregation of amyloid peptides are the key pathological events in many
neurodegenerative diseases. The development of effective inhibitors and drugs to prevent …