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Background: Beside neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid plaques are the major histological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) being composed of aggregated fibrils of beta-amyloid (A beta). During the underlying fibrillogenic pathway, starting from a surplus ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Semisynthesis and Enzymatic Preparation of Post-translationally Modified α-Synuclein

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Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) serve as molecular switches for regulating protein folding, function, and interactome and have been implicated in the misfolding and amyloid formation by several proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases, includin ...

2015

The adipocyte differentiation protein APMAP is an endogenous suppressor of Aβ production in the brain

Bernard Schneider, Patrick Fraering, Mitko Dimitrov, Sébastien Mosser, Justine Pascual, Alexandre Matz

The deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregates in the brain is a major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ is generated from the cleavage of C-terminal fragments of the amyloid precursor protein (APP-CTFs) by γ-secretase, an intramembrane ...

Oxford University Press2015

Alzheimer's disease: the amyloid hypothesis and the Inverse Warburg effect

Pierre Magistretti, Luc Pellerin

Epidemiological and biochemical studies show that the sporadic forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are characterized by the following hallmarks: (a) An exponential increase with age; (b) Selective neuronal vulnerability; (c) Inverse cancer comorbidity. The p ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

The OPEP coarse-grained protein model has been applied to a wide range of applications since its first release 15 years ago. The model, which combines energetic and structural accuracy and chemical specificity, allows the study of single protein properties ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

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gamma-Secretase is a large enzyme complex comprising presenilin, nicastrin, presenilin enhancer 2, and anterior pharynx-defective 1 that mediates the intramembrane proteolysis of a large number of proteins including amyloid precursor protein and Notch. Rec ...

2013

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We propose the application of a new label-free optical technique based on photonic nanostructures to real-time monitor the amyloid-beta 1-42 (Ab(1-42)) fibrillization, including the early stages of the aggregation process, which are related to the onset of ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Differential X-ray phase contrast tomography of Alzheimer plaques in mouse models: perspectives for drug development and clinical imaging techniques

Peter Modregger, Marco Stampanoni

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a looming threat on an ever-ageing population, with devastating effects on the human intellect. A particular characteristic lesion - the extracellular amyloid plaque - accumulates in the brain of AD patients during the course of ...

Institute of Physics2013

Biomolecules are the building blocks of living organisms and perform the most important functions in a biological process. The aim of biophysics is to understand the biological functions of biomolecules in terms of their structure: structure and function o ...

EPFL2012

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One of the core pathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain. Current efforts of medical imaging research aim at visualizing amyloid plaques in living patients in order to evaluate the progression of ...

Elsevier2012