Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38842931›Full record

ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2024

A Potent Sybody Selectively Inhibits α-Synuclein Amyloid Formation by Binding to the P1 Region.

Dimitra Gialama, Devkee M Vadukul, Rebecca J Thrush, Sheena E Radford, Francesco A Aprile

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Correlative SICM-OPM Platform for Surface and Volumetric Imaging in Live Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Dimitra GialamaDepartment of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Devkee M VadukulDepartment of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-2073-0089
Rebecca J ThrushDepartment of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Sheena E RadfordAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-3079-8039
Francesco A AprileDepartment of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-5040-4420

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S033947/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing research efforts focus on exploiting antibodies to inhibit the amyloid formation of neurodegenerative proteins. Nevertheless, it is challenging to discover antibodies that inhibit this process in a specific manner. Using ribosome display, we screened for synthetic single-domain antibodies, i.e., sybodies, of the P1 region of α-synuclein (residues 36-42), a protein that forms amyloid in Parkinson's disease and multiple-system atrophy. Hits were assessed for direct binding to a P1 peptide and the inhibition of amyloid formation. We discovered a sybody, named αSP1, that inhibits amyloid formation of α-synuclein at substoichiometric concentrations in a specific manner, even within highly crowded heterogeneous mixtures. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based binding assays and seeding experiments with and without αSP1 further demonstrate the importance of the P1 region for both primary and secondary nucleation mechanisms of amyloid assembly.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinAmyloidHumansProtein BindingSingle-Domain Antibodiesalpha-SynucleinAmyloidSingle-Domain Antibodies

Identifiers

PMID38842931
PMCPMC11215725

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.