A new era for understanding amyloid structures and disease

MG Iadanza, MP Jackson, EW Hewitt… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and
intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of amyloid disease. The accumulation and deposition …

AlphaFold and the amyloid landscape

F Pinheiro, J Santos, S Ventura - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is a widespread phenomenon with important implications in many
scientific areas. Although amyloid formation is typically considered as detrimental, functional …

Structural evolution of fibril polymorphs during amyloid assembly

M Wilkinson, Y Xu, D Thacker, AIP Taylor, DG Fisher… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) has provided unprecedented insights into amyloid fibril
structures, including those associated with disease. However, these structures represent the …

ApoE facilitates the microglial response to amyloid plaque pathology

JD Ulrich, TK Ulland, TE Mahan, S Nyström… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
One of the hallmark pathologies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the presence of extracellular
deposits of diffuse and fibrillar amyloid plaques predominantly consisting of the amyloid-β …

Multiscale optical and optoacoustic imaging of amyloid-β deposits in mice

R Ni, Z Chen, XL Deán-Ben, FF Voigt… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brains of rodents can be analysed by invasive intravital
microscopy on a submillimetre scale, or via whole-brain images from modalities lacking the …

Amyloid polymorphisms constitute distinct clouds of conformational variants in different etiological subtypes of Alzheimer's disease

J Rasmussen, J Mahler, N Beschorner… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
The molecular architecture of amyloids formed in vivo can be interrogated using luminescent
conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs), a unique class of amyloid dyes. When bound to …

Fibrillar Aβ triggers microglial proteome alterations and dysfunction in Alzheimer mouse models

L Sebastian Monasor, SA Müller, AV Colombo… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Microglial dysfunction is a key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but little is
known about proteome-wide changes in microglia during the course of AD and their …

Amyloid fibril polymorphism: a challenge for molecular imaging and therapy

M Fändrich, S Nyström, KPR Nilsson… - Journal of Internal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of misfolded proteins (MP s), both unique and common, for different
diseases is central for many chronic degenerative diseases. In certain patients, MP …

Map** synaptic glutamate transporter dysfunction in vivo to regions surrounding Aβ plaques by iGluSnFR two-photon imaging

JK Hefendehl, J LeDue, RWY Ko, J Mahler… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), are surrounded by regions
of neuronal and glial hyperactivity. We use in vivo two-photon and wide-field imaging of the …

Acute targeting of pre-amyloid seeds in transgenic mice reduces Alzheimer-like pathology later in life

RE Uhlmann, C Rother, J Rasmussen, J Schelle… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Amyloid-β (Aβ) deposits are a relatively late consequence of Aβ aggregation in Alzheimer's
disease. When pathogenic Aβ seeds begin to form, propagate and spread is not known, nor …