Publications by Somanath Jagannath

Differential role of C-terminal truncations on alpha-synuclein pathology and Lewy body formation

Graham Knott, Romain Hamelin, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Nadine Aït Bouziad, Jonathan Jean-Pierre Ricci, Yllza Jasiqi, Mary-Claude Croisier-Coeytaux, Anass Chiki, Melek Firat Altay, Somanath Jagannath

Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) post-translational modifications (PTM), especially phosphorylation at serine 129 and C-terminal truncations, are highly enriched in Lewy bodies (LB), Lewy neurites, and other pathological aggregates in Parkinson's disease and synucle ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Development and validation of an expanded antibody toolset that captures alpha-synuclein pathological diversity in Lewy body diseases (vol 10, 19, 2024)

Hilal Lashuel, Johannes Burtscher, Melek Firat Altay, Somanath Jagannath

In this article, the wrong slot blots of LASH-BL34-45 and BL 4B12 were presented in Figure 2a; the figure should have appeared as shown below. The original article has been corrected. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Development and validation of an expanded antibody toolset that captures alpha-synuclein pathological diversity in Lewy body diseases

Hilal Lashuel, Johannes Burtscher, Melek Firat Altay, Somanath Jagannath

The abnormal aggregation and accumulation of alpha-synuclein (aSyn) in the brain is a defining hallmark of synucleinopathies. Various aSyn conformations and post-translationally modified forms accumulate in pathological inclusions and vary in abundance amo ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Neuronal growth on high-aspect-ratio diamond nanopillar arrays for biosensing applications

Hilal Lashuel, Niels Quack, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli, Somanath Jagannath, Hossein Babashah, Elena Losero

Monitoring neuronal activity with simultaneously high spatial and temporal resolution in living cell cultures is crucial to advance understanding of the development and functioning of our brain, and to gain further insights in the origin of brain disorders ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Electrochemical sensors for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Somanath Jagannath, Neeraj Kumar

Coronavirus (COVID-19), a deadly pandemic has spread worldwide and created many global health issues. Though methods of its detection are being continuously developed for the early detection and monitoring of COVID-19, still there is need for more novel me ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Towards elucidating the structural and cellular determinants of a-synuclein seeding and toxicity

Somanath Jagannath

Although it has been nearly two and half decades since the discovery of alpha-synuclein (aSyn) as the major component of Lewy bodies (LBs), our understanding of the involvement of different aSyn species, their seeding, spreading and toxicity in Parkinson's ...

EPFL2022

Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?

Hilal Lashuel, Mohamed Bilal Fares, Somanath Jagannath

Lewy bodies (LBs) are α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich intracellular inclusions that are an important pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases. Increasing evidence suggests that the aggregation of α-syn has a central ...

2021

How specific are the conformation-specific α-synuclein antibodies? Characterization and validation of 16 α-synuclein conformation-specific antibodies using well-characterized preparations of α-synuclein monomers, fibrils and oligomers with distinct structures and morphology

Hilal Lashuel, Somanath Jagannath

Increasing evidence suggests that alpha-synuclein (α-syn) oligomers are obligate intermediates in the pathway involved in α-syn fibrillization and Lewy body (LB) formation, and may also accumulate within LBs in Parkinson's disease (PD) and other synucleino ...

2020