Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Mapping the sequence specificity of heterotypic amyloid interactions enables the identification of aggregation modifiers

  • Nikolaos Louros,
  • Meine Ramakers,
  • Emiel Michiels,
  • Katerina Konstantoulea,
  • Chiara Morelli,
  • Teresa Garcia,
  • Nele Moonen,
  • Sam D’Haeyer,
  • Vera Goossens,
  • Dietmar Rudolf Thal,
  • Dominique Audenaert,
  • Frederic Rousseau,
  • Joost Schymkowitz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28955-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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In this work, Louros et al. uncover a rule book for interactions of amyloids with other proteins. This grammar was shown to promote cellular spreading of tau aggregates in cells, but can also be harvested to develop structure-based aggregation blockers.