Protein Misfolding, Aggregation and Conformational Diseases (eBook)

Altered Protein Structure and Enhanced Aggregation/Deposition.- The Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease: General Overview.- Free Radicals, Metal Ions, and A? Aggregation and Neurotoxicity.- Progress in Understanding the Mechanisms of Neuronal Dysfunction and Degeneration in Parkinson’s Disease.- ?-Synuclein Aggregation and Parkinson’s Disease.- Cell Biology of ?-Synuclein: Implications in Parkinson’s Disease and Other Lewy Body Diseases.- Pathogenesis of Prion Diseases.- Mammalian Prion Protein.- The Yeast Prion Proteins Sup35p and Ure2p.- Immunoglobulin Light Chain and Systemic Light-Chain Amyloidosis.- Pancreatic Islet Amyloid and Diabetes.- ?2-Microglobulin and Dialysis-Related Amyloidosis.- Serum Amyloid A and AA Amyloidosis.- Point Mutations and Enhanced Protein Deposition.- Transthyretin and the Transthyretin Amyloidoses.- Human Lysozyme.- Serpins and the Diversity of Conformational Diseases.- Altered Protein Structure and Impaired Function.- Human Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.- Understanding the Effects of Cancer-Associated Mutations in the Tumor Suppressor Protein p53: Structural Consequences of Mutations and Possible Ways of Rescuing Oncogenic Mutants.- Changes in Supramolecular Structure.- Protein Aggregation in Muscle Fibers and Respective Neuromuscular Disorders.- Muscular Dystrophies and Protein Mutations.- The Functional Consequences of Dystrophin Deficiency in Skeletal Muscles.- Eye Lens Proteins and Cataracts.- Altered Protein Structure and Changes in Cellular/Nuclear Function.- Glutamine/Asparagine-Rich Regions in Proteins and Polyglutamine Diseases.- Mechanistic Insights into the Polyglutamine Ataxias.- Molecular Pathogenesis of the Polyglutamine Disease: Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy.- Post-Translational Modification and Protein Conformational Diseases.- Protein Glycation and Cataract: A Conformational Disease.- Defective Glycosylation and Muscular Dystrophies.