Self-Association of Protein in Human Physiology and Disease

Dear Colleagues,

Self-association, misfolding or misassembly of selected proteins has been linked to a broad range of degenerative human diseases, collectively termed as “amyloid diseases”. These degenerative disorders extend from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson disease, type II diabetes mellitus (TIIDM), obesity to associated prion diseases, polyglutamine diseases, familial transthyretin amyloidosis, immunoglobin amyloid light chain amyloidosis, AA amyloidosis and many more. Amyloid, which is the pathological hallmark of these diseases, consists of fibrils or thread like structures containing misfolded formation of highly rich β-pleated protein structure. Several convincing biochemical, pathologic and genetic studies demonstrated that the misfolded protein aggregation is the primary cause of postmiotic tissue/cell dysfunction or loss. It was also established that the rate of self-association of proteins depends on the rate of accumulation of sheet structure. This also supports that this type of secondary structure in a protein promotes self-aggregation of proteins. However the exact mechanism of fibrilization process and protein aggregation to tissue degeneration leading to pathogenesis is not fully understood. This special issue will cover the comprehensive insight of factors, forces and energies that govern the fibrillization, self-association and irreversible aggregate formation, as well as the structure-activity correlation to cellular toxicity, which are needed to develop potential therapies for intervention of “amyloid disorders”.

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Submission Deadline: 31 March 2020

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