Quantifying misfolded protein oligomers as drug targets and biomarkers in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

K Kulenkampff, AM Wolf Perez, P Sormanni… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein misfolding and aggregation are characteristic of a wide range of neurodegenerative
disorders, including Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases. A hallmark of these diseases is the …

Misfolded protein oligomers: mechanisms of formation, cytotoxic effects, and pharmacological approaches against protein misfolding diseases

DJ Rinauro, F Chiti, M Vendruscolo… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
The conversion of native peptides and proteins into amyloid aggregates is a hallmark of over
50 human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Increasing evidence …

Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer's disease-related amyloid-β pathology

R Mancuso, N Fattorelli, A Martinez-Muriana… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microglia are central players in Alzheimer's disease pathology but analyzing microglial
states in human brain samples is challenging due to genetic diversity, postmortem delay and …

Super‐resolution infrared imaging of polymorphic amyloid aggregates directly in neurons

O Klementieva, C Sandt, I Martinsson… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Loss of memory during Alzheimer's disease (AD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is
associated with neuronal loss and the aggregation of amyloid proteins into neurotoxic β …

Super-resolving microscopy in neuroscience

C Werner, M Sauer, C Geis - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence imaging techniques play a pivotal role in our understanding of the nervous
system. The emergence of various super-resolution microscopy methods and specialized …

Cucurbit [7] uril macrocyclic sensors for optical fingerprinting: predicting protein structural changes to identifying disease-specific amyloid assemblies

N Das Saha, S Pradhan, R Sasmal… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In a three-dimensional (3D) representation, each protein molecule displays a specific
pattern of chemical and topological features, which are altered during its misfolding and …

Cerebral organoids with chromosome 21 trisomy secrete Alzheimer's disease-related soluble aggregates detectable by single-molecule-fluorescence and super …

E Fertan, D Böken, A Murray, JSH Danial… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the role of small, soluble aggregates of beta-amyloid (Aβ) and tau in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is of great importance for the rational design of preventative …

ASC specks as a single-molecule fluid biomarker of inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

E Lobanova, YP Zhang, D Emin, J Brelstaff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Immunotherapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease would be facilitated
by better measures of inflammation. Here we established an ultra-sensitive single-molecule …

Beta amyloid aggregates induce sensitised TLR4 signalling causing long-term potentiation deficit and rat neuronal cell death

C Hughes, ML Choi, JH Yi, SC Kim, A Drews… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular events causing memory loss and neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) over time are still unknown. Here we found that picomolar concentrations of soluble …

The influence of pathogenic mutations in α-synuclein on biophysical and structural characteristics of amyloid fibrils

FS Ruggeri, P Flagmeier, JR Kumita, G Meisl… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteinaceous deposits of α-synuclein amyloid fibrils are a hallmark of human disorders
including Parkinson's disease. The onset of this disease is also associated with five familial …