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ReviewNature communications2025

Emerging biophysical origins and pathogenic implications of amyloid oligomers.

Huayuan Tang, Nicholas Andrikopoulos, Yuhuan Li, Stone Ke, Yunxiang Sun, Feng Ding, Pu Chun Ke

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Review in Nature communications, 2025. 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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20citing papers in PubMed
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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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Nanoplastics and Neurodegeneration: A Roadmap From Mechanism to Causation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. Toxic mechanisms of amyloid oligomers and therapeutic strategies.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  16. The Evolution of Functional Amyloids and Their Impact on Host-Microbe Interactions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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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

7 authors.

Huayuan Tang *Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-1865-9814
Nicholas Andrikopoulos *Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8936-3534
Yuhuan Li *Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1191-0793
Stone KeMelbourne Dementia Research Centre, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6859-2495
Yunxiang SunSchool of Physical Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China. sunyunxiang@nbu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9799-7131
Feng DingDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA. fding@clemson.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1850-6336
Pu Chun KeDrug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia. pu-chun.ke@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2134-0859

Funding

Map Leukemia-immune Cell Talks with Nanoplasmon Ruler in CAR T-Cell ImmunotherapyR01CA243001 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, PENGYU, CHEN, WEIQIANG · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
Inhibition of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide AggregationR35GM145409 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI Feng Ding · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) R35GM145409, R01CA243001National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 12402237NCI NIH HHS R01 CA243001NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145409
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amyloid hypothesis has been a leading narrative concerning the pathophysiological foundation of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. At the two ends of the hypothesis lie the functional protein monomers and the pathology-defining amyloid fibrils, while the early stages of protein aggregation are populated by polymorphic, transient and neurotoxic oligomers. As the structure and activity of oligomers are intertwined, here we show oligomers arising from liquid-liquid phase separation and β-barrel formation, their routes to neurodegeneration, and their role in cerebrovascular perturbation. Together, this Perspective converges on the multifaceted oligomer-axis central to the pathological origin and, hence, the treatment of amyloid diseases.

Indexed as

AmyloidAmyloid beta-PeptidesProtein Aggregation, PathologicalAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsHumansParkinson DiseaseProtein MultimerizationAmyloidAmyloid beta-Peptides

Identifiers

PMID40133283
PMCPMC11937510

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