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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2022

Optimizing Epitope Conformational Ensembles Using α-Synuclein Cyclic Peptide "Glycindel" Scaffolds: A Customized Immunogen Method for Generating Oligomer-Selective Antibodies for Parkinson's Disease.

Shawn C C Hsueh, Adekunle Aina, Andrei Yu Roman, Neil R Cashman, Xubiao Peng, Steven S Plotkin

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shawn C C HsuehDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5348-7877
Adekunle AinaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8215-7452
Andrei Yu RomanDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5, Canada.
Neil R CashmanDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5, Canada.
Xubiao PengDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4170-6400
Steven S PlotkinDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8998-877X
University of British Columbia · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effectively presenting epitopes on immunogens, in order to raise conformationally selective antibodies through active immunization, is a central problem in treating protein misfolding diseases, particularly neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease. We seek to selectively target conformations enriched in toxic, oligomeric propagating species while sparing the healthy forms of the protein that are often more abundant. To this end, we computationally modeled scaffolded epitopes in cyclic peptides by inserting/deleting a variable number of flanking glycines ("glycindels") to best mimic a misfolding-specific conformation of an epitope of α-synuclein enriched in the oligomer ensemble, as characterized by a region most readily disordered and solvent-exposed in a stressed, partially denatured protofibril. We screen and rank the cyclic peptide scaffolds of α-synuclein

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alpha-SynucleinParkinson DiseaseAntibodiesEpitopesHumansPeptides, CyclicProtein ConformationSolventsalpha-SynucleinAntibodiesEpitopesPeptides, CyclicSolventsCyclic peptidesensemble similarityepitope scaffoldingmolecular dynamicsprotein misfoldingvirtual screening

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