Sentences with phrase «of the amyloid peptide»

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Four clones were isolated from an adult human brain complementary DNA library with an oligonucleotide probe corresponding to the first 20 amino acids of the beta peptide of brain amyloid from Alzheimer's disease.

An analysis of the peptide's structure in semen indicated that it hooked up with similar fragments to create amyloid fibers (clusters of protein fragments that have also been implicated in diseases such as Alzheimer's).

We now know that plaques are clusters of protein fragments called beta - amyloid peptides.

Compared with control groups, the mice that were given oleocanthal showed significantly enhanced clearance and degradation of the beta - amyloid peptides.

«What's distinct here is a regulatory role whereby the prion protein inhibits production of amyloid beta peptide from its precursor protein,» says Millhauser.

The majority of people in this field today believe that the plaques, made of a protein fragment called beta - amyloid peptide (BAP), come first, and that the accumulation of this material causes the rest of the disease.

Brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease clog up too, but with plaques made from a different protein called amyloid beta peptide.

Six years ago, Tanzi and neuroscientist Robert Moir, also at MGH, decided to test a hunch that ß amyloid behaves similarly to a class of proteins with well - known beneficial properties, called antimicrobial peptides, or AMPs.

«Less oxidation could prevent misfolding to a certain degree, perhaps even to the point that it slows the aggregation of beta - amyloid peptides, which is believed to be the ultimate cause of Alzheimer's.»

Building on this work, Ming, Darrell Cole Cerrato and colleagues at the University of South Florida wanted to find out if betanin, a beet compound used in commercial dyes that readily binds to metals, could block the effects of copper on beta - amyloid and, in turn, prevent the misfolding of these peptides and the oxidation of neurons.

They then made amyloids by allowing copies of each peptide to clump together, adding zinc ions to help the process along.

Four of the seven peptides made amyloids that could break down organic molecules called esters (Nature Chemistry, doi.org/rxf).

«What's critical with this and what has never been done before is that a single peptide sequence will work against the toxic versions of a number of different amyloid proteins and peptides, regardless of their amino acid sequence or the normal 3 - D structures.»

If a bunch of short peptides are mixed together, amyloids form, each with a complex structure.

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid plaques, sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles, formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.

Currently, Alzheimer's diagnoses rely on clinical neuropathologic assessment of amyloid - β (Aβ) peptide aggregates (plaques) and neurofibrillary tangles.

In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, amyloid peptides aggregate to form oligomers and plaques that are thought to be responsible for the disease symptoms.

In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid precursor protein is broken apart, and the resulting fragments — β - amyloid peptides, or Aβ peptides — aggregate to form plaques.

The plaques are aggregations of fibers that form when individual amyloid - beta peptides begin sticking together abnormally.

They found that toxicity of amyloid - β peptides, one of the major culprits in AD, can be decreased by preventing it from interacting with the prion protein.

Though it's clear that nicastrin is part of the machine that makes the beta amyloid peptide, he says, it's not clear what it does.

One of the main ingredients in these plaques, a peptide called beta amyloid, is created when enzymes cut up a protein called APP.

Structural model of Alzheimer Amyloid A-beta 1 - 42 peptide fibril derived from an experimental structure (PDB: 2MXU).

A European research team and a team from the United States (Massachussetts Institute of Technology in cooperation with Lund University) have simultaneously succeeded in elucidating the structure of the most disease - relevant beta - amyloid peptide 1 - 42 fibrils at atomic resolution.

The main part of the beta - amyloid 1 - 42 peptide is shaped like a double horseshoe.

Finally, the novel double concentric beta - barrel corresponds to a hypothetic structure adopted under some conditions by beta - amyloid peptides, the causative agents of Alzheimer's disease.

The scientists found that 40 micromoles (a measure of the amount of resveratrol in a liter of solution) cut levels of the Alzheimer's - associated molecules — amyloid - beta peptides — by more than half.

They found that GLUT1 deficiency led to diminished glucose uptake into the brain as early as two weeks of age and, by six months of age, neuronal dysfunction, behavioral deficits, elevated levels of amyloid - beta peptide, behavioral changes and neurodegenerative changes.

Like humans with AD, hAPP mice have elevated levels of amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain, network and synaptic dysfunction, and amyloid plaques (9).

Thioflavine T interaction with synthetic Alzheimer's disease β - amyloid peptides: Detection of amyloid aggregation in solution

The team's findings, published today (May 25) in Science Translational Medicine, suggest that amyloid - β may function similarly to antimicrobial peptides of the innate immune system.

Other studies identified additional ways to make the brain more resistant to amyloid - beta peptides that impair neuronal function as they build up in brains of those with Alzheimer's.

The nature of those plaques finally came into focus in 1984, when George Glenner, a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, identified the peptide called amyloid - beta and hypothesized that Alzheimer's was caused by «amyloidosis» of the brain, a process in which insoluble forms of an amyloid protein accumulate.

D.K.V. Kumar et al., «Amyloid - β peptide protects against microbial infection in mouse and worm models of Alzheimer's disease,» Science Translational Medicine, doi: 10.1126 / scitranslmed.aaf1059, 2016.

C. elegans expressing a modified form of human amyloid - β survived three or four more days following infection in the gut with Candida albicans, compared to wild - type worms that did not express the peptide.

A probe invented at Rice University that lights up when it binds to a misfolded amyloid beta peptide — the kind suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease — has identified a specific binding site on the protein that could facilitate better drugs to treat the disease.

Young mice that expressed high levels of human amyloid - β (but did not have pathological plaques) infected in the brain with Salmonella typhimurium were more likely to survive the infection compared to wild - type mice that did not express the peptide, Tanzi, Moir, and their colleagues found.

«Whereas amyloid - β is viewed as a piece of junk, LL - 37 is [considered] a key antimicrobial peptide important for immunity,» said Moir.

The results found that as well as lowering beta - amyloid peptide levels, the animals displayed improvements in both learning and memory, suggesting something akin to a reversal of Alzheimer's related symptoms.

Specifically, that aggregates of A-beta peptides, which are formed following cleavage of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP), instigate a series of events that leads to neurodegeneration and, eventually, AD.

Alzheimer's disease — associated amyloid - β peptides trap microbes in the brains of mice and in the guts of nematodes, a study shows.

Classical hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are a synaptic loss, cholinergic neuron death, and abnormal protein deposition, particularly of toxic amyloid - β peptide (Aβ) that is derived from amyloid - β protein precursor (AβPP) by the action of beta - and gamma - secretases.

Abstract: Classical hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are a synaptic loss, cholinergic neuron death, and abnormal protein deposition, particularly of toxic amyloid - β peptide (Aβ) that is derived from amyloid - β protein precursor (AβPP) by the action of beta - and gamma - secretases.

Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a small peptide molecule generated from cleavage of amyloid precursor proteinAmyloid beta (Aβ) is a small peptide molecule generated from cleavage of amyloid precursor proteinamyloid precursor protein (APP).

The characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans mitochondrial thioredoxin system uncovers an unexpected protective role of TRXR - 2 in β - amyloid peptide toxicity.

Suppression of in vivo β - amyloid peptide toxicity by overexpression of the HSP - 16.2 small chaperone protein.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have discovered that two main causes of AD amyloid - beta (Aβ) peptides and apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) impair the growth of new neurons born in adult brains.

The early intraneuronal pathology was accompanied by a significant elevation of soluble Aβ42 peptides that paralleled the presence and progression of early cognitive deficits, several months prior to amyloid plaque deposition.

Proteolytic cleavage of amyloid - β - protein precursor (AβPP) by β - and γ - secretases results in production of the amyloid - β peptide (Aβ) that accumulates in the brains of sufferers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Note the distinct intracellular localization of McSA1 immunoreactivity (green) with that of pab27576 (red), denoting Aβ - amyloid peptides and APP / CTFs, respectively.