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ArticleChemical science2019

Ubiquitin binds the amyloid β peptide and interferes with its clearance pathways.

F Bellia, V Lanza, S García-Viñuales, I M M Ahmed, A Pietropaolo, C Iacobucci, G Malgieri, G D'Abrosca, R Fattorusso, V G Nicoletti and 8 more

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Article in Chemical science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. An edge β-strand mutation turns ubiquitin into a pore-forming amyloid.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  6. Promoting proteostasis by cAMP/PKA and cGMP/PKG.Trends in molecular medicine · 2025
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  9. Suppressing UBE2N ameliorates Alzheimer's disease pathology through the clearance of amyloid beta.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  10. Almost 50 Years of Monomeric Extracellular Ubiquitin (eUb).Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  12. Dysregulated proteostasis network in neuronal diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

F BelliaConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via P. Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy . Email: danilo.milardi@cnr.it.
V LanzaConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via P. Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy . Email: danilo.milardi@cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4529-807X
S García-ViñualesConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via P. Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy . Email: danilo.milardi@cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0002-0018-6170
I M M AhmedConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via P. Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy . Email: danilo.milardi@cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4473-6699
A PietropaoloDipartimento di Scienze della Salute , Università degli Studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro , Viale Europa , 88100 , Catanzaro , Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6163-6606
C IacobucciDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioanalytics , Institute of Pharmacy , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9592-3606
G MalgieriDepartment of Environmental , Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies , University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" , Via Vivaldi 43 , 81100 Caserta , Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4070-9458
G D'AbroscaDepartment of Environmental , Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies , University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" , Via Vivaldi 43 , 81100 Caserta , Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1786-4249
R FattorussoDepartment of Environmental , Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies , University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" , Via Vivaldi 43 , 81100 Caserta , Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3539-5343
V G NicolettiDipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche (BIOMETEC) , sez. Biochimica medica , Università di Catania , Via Santa Sofia 97 , 95124 Catania , Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6977-9249
D SbardellaDipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Medicina Traslazionale , Università di Roma Tor Vergata , Via Montpellier 1 , 00133 , Roma , Italy.
G R TundoDipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Medicina Traslazionale , Università di Roma Tor Vergata , Via Montpellier 1 , 00133 , Roma , Italy.
M ColettaDipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Medicina Traslazionale , Università di Roma Tor Vergata , Via Montpellier 1 , 00133 , Roma , Italy.
L PironeConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via Mezzocannone, 16 , Naples I-80134 , Italy.
E PedoneConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via Mezzocannone, 16 , Naples I-80134 , Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0203-8611
D CalcagnoDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche , Università di Catania , V.le Andrea Doria 6 , 95125 Catania , Italy . Email: grassog@unict.it.
G GrassoDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche , Università di Catania , V.le Andrea Doria 6 , 95125 Catania , Italy . Email: grassog@unict.it.ORCID 0000-0002-7179-4835
D MilardiConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini , Via P. Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy . Email: danilo.milardi@cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0003-3940-9439
University of Catania · ITUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · ITNaples Anesthesia & Physician Associates · USLuther University · KRMagna Graecia University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several lines of evidence point to a compromised proteostasis associated with a reduction of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS) activity in patients affected by Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and suggest that the amyloid β peptide (Aβ) is an important player in the game. Inspired also by many reports, underlining the presence of ubiquitin (Ub) in the amyloid plaques of AD brains, here we set out to test whether Ub may bind the Aβ peptide and have any effect on its clearance pathways. By using an integrated array of MALDI-TOF/UPLC-HRMS, fluorescence, NMR, SPR, Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) and molecular dynamics studies, we consistently demonstrated that Aβ40 binds Ub with a 1 : 1 stoichiometry and

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