TY  - JOUR
AU  - Strodel, Birgit
TI  - Chameleonic Nature of A β : Implications for Alzheimer's and Other Amyloid Diseases
JO  - Bioessays
VL  - 47
IS  - 9
SN  - 0265-9247
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Wiley-Liss
M1  - FZJ-2025-03773
SP  - e70039
PY  - 2025
AB  - The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), implicated in Alzheimer's disease, exhibits significant polymorphism. At the monomer level, Aβ can adopt disordered, helical, and β-hairpin structures, influenced by environmental conditions. Both oligomeric and fibrillar states, characterized by the prevalence of β-sheets, are polymorphic in the arrangement of β-strands. This chameleon-like behavior arises from Aβ’s unique sequence and relatively flat energy landscape, which facilitates aggregation and may contribute to the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, while also enabling disaggregation, thus slowing disease progression. In contrast, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is much rarer, progresses far more rapidly, likely due to the steeper energy landscape of the prion protein.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1002/bies.70039
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1046338
ER  -