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ReviewDisease models & mechanisms2021

(Dis)Solving the problem of aberrant protein states.

Charlotte M Fare, James Shorter

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Review in Disease models & mechanisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Design principles to tailor Hsp104 therapeutics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  14. Aging can transform single-component protein condensates into multiphase architectures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charlotte M FareDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0394-6435
James ShorterDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5269-8533

Funding

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008275 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WAND, A. JOSHUA · 1988 to 2018
$6.0M
Defining the mechanistic basis of a prion disaggregaseR01GM099836 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SHORTER, JAMES · 2013 to 2024
$3.9M
Programming human protein disaggregases against FTDR21AG065854 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SHORTER, JAMES · 2020 to 2020
$446k
Isolating small-molecule enhancers of the human alpha-synuclein disaggregase machineryR21AG061784 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SHORTER, JAMES · 2019 to 2020
$441k
Engineering KapB2 to Disaggregate Disease-Linked ProteinsF31NS111870 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FARE, CHARLOTTE MIRIAM · 2019 to 2021
$137k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG061784NIA NIH HHS R21 AG065854NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099836NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008275NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS111870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases and other protein-misfolding disorders represent a longstanding biomedical challenge, and effective therapies remain largely elusive. This failure is due, in part, to the recalcitrant and diverse nature of misfolded protein conformers. Recent work has uncovered that many aggregation-prone proteins can also undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a process by which macromolecules self-associate to form dense condensates with liquid properties that are compositionally distinct from the bulk cellular milieu. Efforts to combat diseases caused by toxic protein states focus on exploiting or enhancing the proteostasis machinery to prevent and reverse pathological protein conformations. Here, we discuss recent advances in elucidating and engineering therapeutic agents to combat the diverse aberrant protein states that underlie protein-misfolding disorders.

Indexed as

AnimalsHeat-Shock ProteinsHumansModels, BiologicalMolecular ChaperonesProtein AggregatesProteinsRNAHeat-Shock ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesProtein AggregatesProteinsRNADisaggregaseNeurodegenerationPhase transition

Identifiers

PMID33942880
PMCPMC8126477

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