Amyloid-β peptide protects against microbial infection in mouse and worm models of Alzheimer’s disease

Chronic Inflammation and Amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease -- Role of Spirochetes1

(2017) Judith Miklossy   JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Evaluation of cystatin C activities against HIV

(2015) Atmaram Bandivdekar et al.   INDIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

(2015) Diana Pisa et al.   Scientific Reports

Lipopolysaccharide induces amyloid formation of antimicrobial peptide HAL-2

(2014) Jiarong Wang et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

β-Amyloid peptides display protective activity against the human Alzheimer’s disease-associated herpes simplex virus-1

(2014) Karine Bourgade et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

Heparin-Binding Proteins (Chemokines and Defensins) and their Complexes with Glycosaminoglycans from the Solution NMR Perspective

(2014) Vitor Pomin   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

A study on the association between infectious burden and Alzheimer's disease

(2014) X.-L. Bu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Alzheimer's Associated β-Amyloid Protein Inhibits Influenza A Virus and Modulates Viral Interactions with Phagocytes

(2014) Mitchell R. White et al.   PLoS One

New ELISAs with high specificity for soluble oligomers of amyloid β-protein detect natural Aβ oligomers in human brain but not CSF

(2013) Ting Yang et al.   Alzheimers & Dementia

Redundancy and divergence in the amyloid precursor protein family

(2013) S. Ali M. Shariati et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Little Peptide, Big Effects: The Role of LL-37 in Inflammation and Autoimmune Disease

(2013) J. M. Kahlenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Antiviral Mechanisms of Human Defensins

(2013) Sarah S. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Amyloid-β and APP Deficiencies Cause Severe Cerebrovascular Defects: Important Work for an Old Villain

(2013) Salvadore Luna et al.   PLoS One

Dnr1 mutations cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila by activating the innate immune response in the brain

(2013) Y. Cao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spreading of a Prion Domain from Cell-to-Cell by Vesicular Transport in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2013) Carmen I. Nussbaum-Krammer et al.   PLoS Genetics

The expanding world of extracellular traps: not only neutrophils but much more

(2013) Oliver Goldmann et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Cathelicidin LL-37: An Antimicrobial Peptide with a Role in Inflammatory Skin Disease

(2012) Markus Reinholz et al.   Annals of Dermatology

Antimicrobial activity of human islet amyloid polypeptides: an insight into amyloid peptides’ connection with antimicrobial peptides

(2012) Lan Wang et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Utility of an improved model of amyloid-beta (Aβ1-42) toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans for drug screening for Alzheimer’s disease

(2012) Gawain McColl et al.   Molecular Neurodegeneration

Human  -Defensin 6 Promotes Mucosal Innate Immunity Through Self-Assembled Peptide Nanonets

(2012) H. Chu et al.   SCIENCE

Exploring New Biological Functions of Amyloids: Bacteria Cell Agglutination Mediated by Host Protein Aggregation

(2012) Marc Torrent et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Antimicrobial Amyloids?

(2011) Bruce L. Kagan   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Emerging roles of pathogens in Alzheimer disease

(2011) Judith Miklossy   EXPERT REVIEWS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Antimicrobial Properties of Amyloid Peptides

(2011) Bruce L. Kagan et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS

Purified high molecular weight synthetic Aβ(1–42) and biological Aβ oligomers are equipotent in rapidly inducing MTT formazan exocytosis

(2011) Adam M. Weidner et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Inhibits Adhesion of Candida albicans by Interacting with Yeast Cell-Wall Carbohydrates

(2011) Pei-Wen Tsai et al.   PLoS One

Characterizing the Role of Cell-Wall β-1,3-Exoglucanase Xog1p in Candida albicans Adhesion by the Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37

(2011) Pei-Wen Tsai et al.   PLoS One

Different Factors Affecting Human ANP Amyloid Aggregation and Their Implications in Congestive Heart Failure

(2011) Lia Millucci et al.   PLoS One

Presenilin-1 but not amyloid precursor protein mutations present in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease attenuate the response of cultured cells to γ-secretase modulators regardless of their potency and structure

(2010) Stefanie Hahn et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

The Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Amyloid β-Protein Is an Antimicrobial Peptide

(2010) Stephanie J. Soscia et al.   PLoS One

Antimicrobial peptides: The ancient arm of the human immune system

(2010) Jochen Wiesner et al.   Virulence

Antimicrobial Activity of Human Prion Protein Is Mediated by Its N-Terminal Region

(2009) Mukesh Pasupuleti et al.   PLoS One

Binding of LL-37 to model biomembranes: Insight into target vs host cell recognition

(2008) Rohit Sood et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Role of Glial Cells in the Functional Expression of LL-37/Rat Cathelin-Related Antimicrobial Peptide in Meningitis

(2008) Lars-Ove Brandenburg et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Non-Cell-Autonomous Effects of Presenilin 1 Variants on Enrichment-Mediated Hippocampal Progenitor Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

(2008) Se Hoon Choi et al.   NEURON