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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2015

Real-Time Monitoring of Alzheimer's-Related Amyloid Aggregation via Probe Enhancement-Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.

Yinghua Guan, Kevin J Cao, Adam Cantlon, Kristyna Elbel, Emmanuel A Theodorakis, Dominic M Walsh, Jerry Yang, Jagesh V Shah

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Charge-Based Discrimination of Amyloids Using an Amyloid-Targeting Chemiluminescent Probe.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  6. Single Molecule Characterization of Amyloid Oligomers.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yinghua GuanDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Kevin J CaoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States.
Adam Cantlon
Kristyna ElbelDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States.
Emmanuel A TheodorakisDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States.
Dominic M Walsh
Jerry YangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093-0358, United States.
Jagesh V ShahDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
University of California, San Diego · USCenter for Systems Biology · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Water-soluble Abeta and its role in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG046275 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SELKOE, DENNIS J · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
Chemical Biology of Caged Garcinia XanthonesR01CA133002 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI THEODORAKIS, EMMANUEL A · 2008 to 2012
$1.3M
Acquisition of a High Resolution TOF Mass SpectrometerS10RR025636 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MOLINSKI, TADEUSZ F · 2010 to 2010
$305k
NCI NIH HHS CA133002NCI NIH HHS R01 CA133002NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR025636NIA NIH HHS AG046275NIA NIH HHS R01 AG046275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work describes the use of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and a novel amyloid-binding fluorescent probe, ARCAM 1, to monitor the aggregation of the Alzheimer's disease-associated amyloid β-peptide (Aβ). ARCAM 1 exhibits a large increase in fluorescence emission upon binding to Aβ assemblies, making it an excellent candidate for probe enhancement FCS (PE-FCS). ARCAM 1 binding does not change Aβ aggregation kinetics. It also exhibits greater dynamic range as a probe in reporting aggregate size by FCS in Aβ, when compared to thioflavin T (ThT) or an Aβ peptide modified with a fluorophore. Using fluorescent burst analysis (via PE-FCS) to follow aggregation of Aβ, we detected soluble aggregates at significantly earlier time points compared to typical bulk fluorescence measurements. Autocorrelation analysis revealed the size of these early Aβ assemblies. These results indicate that PE-FCS/ARCAM 1 based assays can detect and provide size characterization of small Aβ aggregation intermediates during the assembly process, which could enable monitoring and study of such aggregates that transiently accumulate in biofluids of patients with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Indexed as

AcrylamidesAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesBenzothiazolesFluorescent DyesKineticsMolecular StructureNaphthalenesPeptide FragmentsProtein AggregatesSolubilitySpectrometry, FluorescenceThiazoles2-cyano-N-(2-(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethyl)-3-(6-(piperidin-1-yl)naphthalen-2-yl)acrylamideAcrylamidesAmyloid beta-Peptidesamyloid beta-protein (1-42)BenzothiazolesFluorescent DyesNaphthalenesPeptide FragmentsProtein AggregatesThiazolesthioflavin Taggregate-binding fluorescent probeAlzheimer’s diseaseAmyloid β-proteinfluorescence correlation spectroscopy

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PMID26212450
PMCPMC4814290
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