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ArticleChemical communications (Cambridge, England)2010

Alpha-synuclein in alpha-helical conformation at air-water interface: implication of conformation and orientation changes during its accumulation/aggregation.

Chengshan Wang, Nilam Shah, Garima Thakur, Feimeng Zhou, Roger M Leblanc

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Article in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Air-Water Interfacial Adsorption of the Chaperone Protein DNAJB6b.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025
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  4. Determine both the conformation and orientation of a specific residue in α-synuclein(61-95) even in monolayer byAnalytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2022
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  10. Interfacial Properties of NBiophysical journal · 2017
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  12. Solution conditions determine the relative importance of nucleation and growth processes in α-synuclein aggregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Chengshan WangCalifornia State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.
Nilam Shah
Garima Thakur
Feimeng Zhou
Roger M Leblanc

Funding

NOVEL DRUG DESIGN AND HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENINGP20MD001824 · NIMHD · CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES · PI MODARRES, ALI · 2005 to 2009
$4.4M
Alpha-Synuclein-Metal Complexes and Oxidative Stress in Parkinson's DiseaseSC1NS070155 · NINDS · CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES · PI ZHOU, FEIMENG · 2009 to 2012
$1.4M
NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD001824NIMHD NIH HHS P20-MD001824-01NINDS NIH HHS SC1 NS070155NINDS NIH HHS SC1NS070155-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alpha-synuclein, a natively unstructured protein important in the neuropathology of Parkinson's disease, was found to form a Langmuir monolayer in an alpha-helical conformation with its helical axis parallel to the air-water interface. This study sheds light on the role of vesicles in neuronal cells in the accumulation/aggregation of alpha-synuclein.

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Airalpha-SynucleinHumansParkinson DiseaseProtein Structure, SecondarySpectrophotometry, InfraredWateralpha-SynucleinWater

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PMID20714568
PMCPMC3186058

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