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Newest in this topic

  1. Disrupting SORL1-retromer endosomal recycling in mice drives the age-dependent neurodegenerative signature of Alzheimer's disease 2026-10-30
  2. TMEM106B C-Terminal fragment aggregation exacerbates α-synuclein and TDP-43 proteinopathy phenotypes 2026-10-30
  3. The Filamin A Proteomic Switch: Solubility States and Cytoskeletal Dynamics Explain the Inverse Epidemiological Relationship Between Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease 2026-10-26

Studies

240 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1993 to 2026

Top journals

  • Autophagy 9
  • bioRxiv 9
  • Nature 8
  • Nature communications 6
  • Acta neuropathologica 5

145 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Intersectin scaffold proteins and their role in cell signaling and endocytosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research 2016-10-12 Prevention trials

    Intersectins (ITSNs) are a family of multi-domain proteins involved in regulation of diverse cellular pathways.

  2. Extracellular Vesicle-Associated Aβ Mediates Trans-Neuronal Bioenergetic and Ca 2+ -Handling Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NPJ aging and mechanisms of disease 2016-09-22 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder in which aggregation-prone neurotoxic amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) accumulates in the brain.

  3. Widespread transneuronal propagation of α-synucleinopathy triggered in olfactory bulb mimics prodromal Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2016-08-08 Mild cognitive impairment

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the progressive appearance of intraneuronal Lewy aggregates, which are primarily composed of misfolded α-synuclein (α-syn).

  4. Ubiquitin-dependent and independent roles of SUMO in proteostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology 2016-06-22 Disease mechanisms

    Cellular proteomes are continuously undergoing alterations as a result of new production of proteins, protein folding, and degradation of proteins.

  5. TFEB at a glance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of cell science 2016-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    The transcription factor EB (TFEB) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of basic cellular processes, such as lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy.

  6. Impaired protein degradation in FTLD and related disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2016-05-07 Disease mechanisms

    Impaired protein degradation has been discussed as a cause or consequence of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

  7. Efficient introduction of specific homozygous and heterozygous mutations using CRISPR/Cas9

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2016-04-27 Risk genes beyond APOE

    The bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system allows sequence-specific gene editing in many organisms and holds promise as a tool to generate models of human diseases, for example, in human pluripotent stem cells.

  8. CCNF mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2016-04-15 Genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are overlapping, fatal neurodegenerative disorders in which the molecular and pathogenic basis remains poorly understood.

  9. Unfolded Protein Response and Macroautophagy in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Prion Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2015-12-18 Disease mechanisms

    Proteostasis are integrated biological pathways within cells that control synthesis, folding, trafficking and degradation of proteins.

  10. Induction of α-synuclein aggregate formation by CSF exosomes from patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-12-08 Tau biomarkers

    Extracellular α-synuclein has been proposed as a crucial mechanism for induction of pathological aggregate formation in previously healthy cells.

  11. NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2015-08-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The pathological assembly of Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein is at the heart of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

  12. α-Synuclein strains cause distinct synucleinopathies after local and systemic administration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2015-06-10 Vascular contributions

    Misfolded protein aggregates represent a continuum with overlapping features in neurodegenerative diseases, but differences in protein components and affected brain regions.

  13. TDP-43 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - is it a prion disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2015-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating disease characterized by rapidly progressive paresis.

  14. Haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial ALS and fronto-temporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 2015-03-24 Genetics

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative syndrome hallmarked by adult-onset loss of motor neurons.

  15. Degradation of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative diseases: therapeutic targets and strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2015-03-13 Disease mechanisms

    Mammalian cells remove misfolded proteins using various proteolytic systems, including the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system (UPS), chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA) and macroautophagy.

  16. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2015-01-29 Lewy body dementia

    We found a significantly greater intensity of cytoplasmic immunostaining for HDAC4 and HDAC6 in granule cells of the dentate gyrus in cases of FTLD overall compared with controls, and specifically in cases of FTLD tau‐ P icks compared with FTLD tau‐ MAPT and controls.

  17. The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and Molecular Chaperone Deregulation in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2015-01-07 Disease mechanisms

    One of the shared hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases is the accumulation of misfolded proteins.

  18. Targeting Hsp90/Hsp70-Based Protein Quality Control for Treatment of Adult Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2015-01-06 Disease mechanisms

    Currently available therapies for adult onset neurodegenerative diseases provide symptomatic relief but do not modify disease progression.

  19. Regulating extracellular proteostasis capacity through the unfolded protein response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Prion 2015 Disease mechanisms

    The extracellular aggregation of proteins into proteotoxic oligomers and amyloid fibrils is implicated in the onset and pathology of numerous diseases referred to as amyloid diseases.

  20. The role of protein clearance mechanisms in organismal ageing and age-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature communications 2014-12-08 Disease mechanisms

    The ability to maintain a functional proteome, or proteostasis, declines during the ageing process.

  21. A Chaperome Subnetwork Safeguards Proteostasis in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cell Reports 2014-10-24 Disease mechanisms

    Chaperones are central to the proteostasis network (PN) and safeguard the proteome from misfolding, aggregation, and proteotoxicity.

  22. The role of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in the modulation of autophagy and the clearance of protein aggregates in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cellular signalling 2014-08-28 Disease mechanisms

    Disruption of autophagy plays an import role in neurodegenerative disorders, where deficient elimination of abnormal and toxic protein aggregates promotes cellular stress, failure and death.

  23. Dysregulation of protein trafficking in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2014-08-25 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Intracellular protein trafficking plays an important role in neuronal function and survival.

  24. Screening of CHCHD10 in a French cohort confirms the involvement of this gene in frontotemporal dementia with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2014-07-24 Risk factors

    Mutations in the CHCHD10 gene have been recently identified in a large family with a complex phenotype variably associating frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebellar ataxia, myopathy, and hearing impairment.

  25. The ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2014-02-27 Disease mechanisms

    Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases.

  26. Lysosome and calcium dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease: partners in crime

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Biochemical Society transactions 2013-12 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Early-onset FAD (familial Alzheimer's disease) is caused by mutations of PS1 (presenilin 1), PS2 (presenilin 2) and APP (amyloid precursor protein).

  27. Autophagy and apoptosis dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in neurobiology 2013-11-06 Disease mechanisms

    Autophagy and apoptosis are basic physiologic processes contributing to the maintenance of cellular homeostasis.

  28. The role of autophagy in neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature medicine 2013-08-06 Disease mechanisms

    Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative process used to recycle obsolete cellular constituents and eliminate damaged organelles and protein aggregates.

  29. Complete protein characterization using top-down mass spectrometry and ultraviolet photodissociation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013-06-04 Genetics

    The top-down approach to proteomics offers compelling advantages due to the potential to provide complete characterization of protein sequence and post-translational modifications.

  30. Ataxia, dementia, and hypogonadotropism caused by disordered ubiquitination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2013-05-08 Genetics

    The syndrome of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, ataxia, and dementia can be caused by inactivating mutations in RNF216 or by the combination of mutations in RNF216 and OTUD4.

  31. Anle138b: a novel oligomer modulator for disease-modifying therapy of neurodegenerative diseases such as prion and Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Acta Neuropathologica 2013-04-18 Brain tissue and pathology

    In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and prion diseases, deposits of aggregated disease-specific proteins are found.

  32. Impairment of proteostasis network in Down syndrome prior to the development of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology: redox proteomics analysis of human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2013-04-18 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    DS is the most frequent genetic cause of intellectual disability characterized by the anomalous presence of three copies of chromosome 21.

  33. Expanded GGGGCC repeat RNA associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia causes neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013-04-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) share phenotypic and pathologic overlap.

  34. Alpha‐synuclein p.H50Q, a novel pathogenic mutation for Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Movement Disorders 2013-03-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The variant was not observed in public databases or identified in unrelated subjects.

  35. Endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction in neurological disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2013-01-01 Risk factors

    Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) dysfunction might have an important part to play in a range of neurological disorders, including cerebral ischaemia, sleep apnoea, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the prion diseases, and familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies.

  36. Structural and functional characterization of two alpha-synuclein strains

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature communications 2013-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    α-Synuclein aggregation is implicated in a variety of diseases including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, pure autonomic failure and multiple system atrophy.

  37. Maturation of autophagosomes and endosomes: a key role for Rab7

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2012-12-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Macroautophagy is an important route in cellular maintenance, in the breakdown and reuse of intracellular materials.

  38. Exosomal cell-to-cell transmission of alpha synuclein oligomers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2012-08-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    Our data suggest that αsyn may be secreted via different secretory pathways.

  39. The endoplasmic reticulum stress response in aging and age-related diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in physiology 2012-07-16 Risk factors

    The endoplasmic reticulum(ER) is a multifunctional organelle within which protein folding, lipid biosynthesis, and calcium storage occurs.

  40. Intracerebral inoculation of pathological α-synuclein initiates a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative α-synucleinopathy in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of experimental medicine 2012-04-16 Brain tissue and pathology

    The accumulation of misfolded proteins is a fundamental pathogenic process in neurodegenerative diseases.

  41. PINK1- and Parkin-mediated mitophagy at a glance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Cell Science 2012-02-15 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Recently, work in cultured cells has shown that Parkin can mediate autophagy of damaged mitochondria (termed mitophagy) (Narendra et al., 2008) downstream of PINK1 (Geisler et al., 2010a; Matsuda et al., 2010; Narendra et al., 2010b; Vives-Bauza et al., 2010).

  42. Autophagy in dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2012-01 Disease mechanisms

    Dementias are a varied group of disorders typically associated with memory loss, impaired judgment and/or language and by symptoms affecting other cognitive and social abilities to a degree that interferes with daily functioning.

  43. Parkinson's disease induced pluripotent stem cells with triplication of the α-synuclein locus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature Communications 2011-08-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    A major barrier to research on Parkinson's disease is inaccessibility of diseased tissue for study.

  44. Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nature 2011-07-20 Disease mechanisms

    Most proteins must fold into defined three-dimensional structures to gain functional activity.

  45. Alpha-synuclein sequesters Dnmt1 from the nucleus: a novel mechanism for epigenetic alterations in Lewy body diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2011-02-04 Genetics

    DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression.

  46. Huntington's disease: from molecular pathogenesis to clinical treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2011-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Huntington's disease is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene, which encodes an abnormally long polyglutamine repeat in the huntingtin protein.

  47. Genome-wide analysis reveals mechanisms modulating autophagy in normal brain aging and in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010-07-26 Disease mechanisms

    Dysregulation of autophagy, a cellular catabolic mechanism essential for degradation of misfolded proteins, has been implicated in multiple neurodegenerative diseases.

  48. Lysosomal proteolysis and autophagy require presenilin 1 and are disrupted by Alzheimer-related PS1 mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cell 2010-06-10 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Macroautophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway essential for neuron survival.

  49. Direct transfer of alpha-synuclein from neuron to astroglia causes inflammatory responses in synucleinopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010-01-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Abnormal neuronal aggregation of alpha-synuclein is implicated in the development of many neurological disorders, including Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  50. Biological and chemical approaches to diseases of proteostasis deficiency

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annual review of biochemistry 2009-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Many diseases appear to be caused by the misregulation of protein maintenance.

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