Sarah E Sandler, Robert I Horne, Sara Rocchetti, Robert Novak, Nai-Shu Hsu, Marta Castellana Cruz, Z Faidon Brotzakis, Rebecca C Gregory, Sean Chia, Gonçalo J L Bernardes, Ulrich F Keyser, Michele Vendruscolo
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 Nov 29Misfolded protein oligomers are of central importance in both the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. However, accurate high-throughput methods to detect and quantify oligomer populations are still needed. We present here a single-molecule approach for the detection and quantification of oligomeric species. The approach is based on the use of solid-state nanopores and multiplexed DNA barcoding to identify and characterize oligomers from multiple samples. We study α-synuclein oligomers in the presence of several small-molecule inhibitors of α-synuclein aggregation as an illustration of the potential applicability of this method to the development of diagnostic and therapeutic methods for Parkinson's disease.
Sarah E Sandler, Robert I Horne, Sara Rocchetti, Robert Novak, Nai-Shu Hsu, Marta Castellana Cruz, Z Faidon Brotzakis, Rebecca C Gregory, Sean Chia, Gonçalo J L Bernardes, Ulrich F Keyser, Michele Vendruscolo. Multiplexed Digital Characterization of Misfolded Protein Oligomers via Solid-State Nanopores. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023 Nov 29;145(47):25776-25788
PMID: 37972287
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