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    Biophysical characterization of the phase separation of TDP-43 devoid of the C-terminal domain

    Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions (FTLD-TDP), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) are associated with depositi...

    Tommaso Staderini, Alessandra Bigi, Clément Lagrève in Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters (2024)

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    Putative novel CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease based on the novel concept of generic protein misfolding and proteotoxicity: the PRAMA cohort

    Alessandra Bigi, Giulia Fani, Valentina Bessi in Translational Neurodegeneration (2024)

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    A single-domain antibody detects and neutralises toxic Aβ42 oligomers in the Alzheimer’s disease CSF

    Amyloid-β42 (Aβ42) aggregation consists of a complex chain of nucleation events producing soluble oligomeric intermediates, which are considered the major neurotoxic agents in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Cerebral l...

    Alessandra Bigi, Liliana Napolitano, Devkee M. Vadukul in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (2024)

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    Effects of oligomer toxicity, fibril toxicity and fibril spreading in synucleinopathies

    Protein misfolding is a general hallmark of protein deposition diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease, in which different types of aggregated species (oligomers, protofibrils and fibrils)...

    Roberta Cascella, Alessandra Bigi, Nunilo Cremades in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2022)

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    The release of toxic oligomers from α-synuclein fibrils induces dysfunction in neuronal cells

    The self-assembly of α-synuclein (αS) into intraneuronal inclusion bodies is a key characteristic of Parkinson’s disease. To define the nature of the species giving rise to neuronal damage, we have investigate...

    Roberta Cascella, Serene W. Chen, Alessandra Bigi, José D. Camino in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Trodusquemine displaces protein misfolded oligomers from cell membranes and abrogates their cytotoxicity through a generic mechanism

    The onset and progression of numerous protein misfolding diseases are associated with the presence of oligomers formed during the aberrant aggregation of several different proteins, including amyloid-β (Aβ) in...

    Ryan Limbocker, Benedetta Mannini, Francesco S. Ruggeri in Communications Biology (2020)