Bio-nanoimaging. Protein Misfolding and Aggregation

Table of Contents

Part 1. Nanotechnology and nanoimaging of aggregating proteins

Nanoimaging of aggregated proteins; Cryoelectron microscopy of beta(2)-microglobulin; Amyloid fibril length quantification by AFM; Seeing fibril formation in real time; Studying amyloidogensis by FRET;   Structure, growth and assembly of amyloid-like fibrils using high-speed atomic force microscopy; Analyzing amyloid fibril structure by scanning transmission electron microscopy; Magic angle spinning NMR of amyloid fibrils; Analyzing protein deposits in vivo by confocal laser multiphoton laser scanning microscopy; Amyloid imaging agents; Reporters of amyloid structure; Immunohistochemical detection of amyloid components; Scanning tunneling microscopy of protein deposits; Probing of protein misfolding with single molecule force spectroscopy; Single molecule characterization of a-synuclein in aggregation-prone states

Part 2. Polymorphism of protein misfolded and aggregated species

Fibrillar polymorphism; Ab fibril polymorphism; Prefibrillar Ab oligomers; Structural heterogeneity of in vitro and ex vivo  amyloid assemblies; Polymorphism of tau fibrils; Amyloid-like protofibrils with different physical properties; Micelle-Like Architecture of the Amyloid-ß Peptide; Insulin oligomers; Worm-like amyloid fibrils of mouse prion protein; Apolipoprotein C-II Amyloid Fibrils; Amylin oligomers and fibrils;  Amyloid fibrils of human stefins; Fibrillar structure of Sup35 in vivo; Dopamine-induced a-synuclein oligomers ; Amyloid spherulites; A stable lipid-induced aggregate of alpha-synuclein 

Part 3. Polymorphism of protein misfolding and aggregation processes

Multiple pathways of lysozyme aggregation; Structure-function study of amyloid ion channels in neurodegenerative diseases; Amyloid ß-protein assembly; Molecular mechanisms underlying alpha synucelin misassembly; Multiple pathways of amyloid assembly /disassembly studied by AFM; Sequestering of metastable proteins with essential cellular functions by amyloid-like aggregates; Misfolded intermediate of a PDZ domain; Structural characterization of the amyloidogenic state of human lysozyme; Landscape Model of Filamentous Protein Aggregation; Micelle formation by human islet amyloid polypeptide; Effect of anionic polysaccharide on ß-lactoglobulin fibrillation

Authors

Vladimir N. Uversky Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, USA. VLADIMIR N. UVERSKY is a Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida (USF). He obtained his academic degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Ph.D., in 1991) and from the Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc., in 1998). He spent his early career working mostly on protein folding at the Institute of Protein Research and the Institute for Biological Instrumentation (Russia). In 1998, he moved to the University of California Santa Cruz where for six years he was studying protein folding, misfolding, protein conformation diseases, and protein intrinsic disorder phenomenon. In 2004, he was invited to join the Indiana University School of Medicine as a Senior Research Professor to work on the intrinsically disordered proteins. Since 2010, Professor Uversky is with USF, where he continues to study intrinsically disordered proteins and protein folding and misfolding processes. He has authored over 950 scientific publications and edited several books and book series on protein structure, function, folding and misfolding. Yuri Lyubchenko