Cytotoxic aggregation and amyloid formation by the myostatin precursor protein.
PLoS ONE, 2010 Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, has been implicated in sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM). sIBM is the most common age-related muscle-wastage disease with a pathogenesis similar to that of amyloid disorders such as Alzheimer's and ...
Carlene S Starck +1 more
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Alzheimer’s Disease as a Membrane Disorder: Spatial Cross-Talk Among Beta-Amyloid Peptides, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Lipid Rafts [PDF]
, 2019 Biological membranes show lateral and transverse asymmetric lipid distribution. Cholesterol (Chol) localizes in both hemilayers, but in the external one it is mostly condensed in lipid-ordered microdomains (raft domains), together with saturated ...
Antollini, Silvia Susana +1 more
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Self‐Assembly of Linear, Natural Antimicrobial Peptides: An Evolutionary Perspective
ChemPlusChem, Volume 87, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Antimicrobial peptides are an ancient defence against a wide range of microbes. Some can self‐assemble into oligomers and amyloid. Similarities with neurodegenerative diseases support a hypothesis that some diseases are due to aberrant activity of a protective neuropeptide.
Verity Baltutis +2 more
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A γ-secretase inhibitor, but not a γ-secretase modulator, induced defects in BDNF axonal trafficking and signaling: evidence for a role for APP. [PDF]
, 2015 Clues to Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis come from a variety of different sources including studies of clinical and neuropathological features, biomarkers, genomics and animal and cellular models. An important role for amyloid precursor protein (APP)
Cheng, Soan +11 more
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Heliyon, 2020 Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. In this disease neurodegeneration occurs due to deposition of aggregated amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (hyperphosphorylated tau proteins).
Rupali Kumari +2 more
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DHA supplemented in peptamen diet offers no advantage in pathways to amyloidosis: is it time to evaluate composite lipid diet? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Numerous reports have documented the beneficial effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on beta-amyloid production and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Zareen Amtul +5 more
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A study on the interaction of Alzheimer's disease beta amyloid protein with cultured mouse neuroblastoma cell line NB41A3 [PDF]
, 1994 Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1994The $\beta$ amyloid protein is the primary constituent of amyloid plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
Zhao, Xiaohong
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Mapping Hsp104 interactions using cross‐linking mass spectrometry
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study examines how cross‐linking mass spectrometry can be utilized to analyze ATP‐induced conformational changes in Hsp104 and its interactions with substrates. We developed an analytical pipeline to distinguish between intra‐ and inter‐subunit contacts within the hexameric homo‐oligomer and discovered contacts between Hsp104 and a selected ...
Kinga Westphal +3 more
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Endocrinology, Diabetes &Metabolism, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Saturated fatty acids induce insulin resistance in neurons. Neuronal metabolism of palmitic acid alters mitochondrial function. Abstract Introduction Saturated fatty acids (FAs) are the main component of high‐fat diets (HFDs), and high consumption has been associated with the development of insulin resistance, endoplasmic reticulum stress and ...
Karina Sánchez‐Alegría +1 more
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Succinct Amyloid and Non-Amyloid Patterns in Hexapeptides [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Hexapeptides are widely applied as a model system for studying amyloid-forming properties of polypeptides, including proteins. Recently, large experimental databases have become publicly available with amyloidogenic labels. Using these datasets for training and testing purposes, one may build artificial intelligence (AI)-based classifiers for ...
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