scispace - formally typeset
L

Laura Pieri

Researcher at University of Florence

Publications -  54
Citations -  3883

Laura Pieri is an academic researcher from University of Florence. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Protein aggregation. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 48 publications receiving 3301 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura Pieri include French Institute of Health and Medical Research & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

α-Synuclein propagates from mouse brain to grafted dopaminergic neurons and seeds aggregation in cultured human cells

TL;DR: In vivo transfer of α-syn between host cells and grafted dopaminergic neurons in mice overexpressing human α- syn and results suggest that α- Syn propagation is a key element in the progression of Parkinson disease pathology.
Journal ArticleDOI

Structural and functional characterization of two alpha-synuclein strains

TL;DR: It is shown that the two strains of α-synuclein have different structures, levels of toxicity, and in vitro and in vivo seeding and propagation properties, which may account for differences in disease progression in different individuals/cell types and/or types of synucleinopathies.
Journal ArticleDOI

Tunneling nanotubes spread fibrillar α-synuclein by intercellular trafficking of lysosomes.

TL;DR: Using quantitative fluorescence microscopy with co‐cultured neurons, it is shown that α‐synuclein fibrils efficiently transfer from donor to acceptor cells through tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) inside lysosomal vesicles, revealing a possible novel role of TNTs and lysOSomes in the progression of synucleinopathies.
Journal ArticleDOI

Fibrillar α-Synuclein and Huntingtin Exon 1 Assemblies Are Toxic to the Cells

TL;DR: Overall, the data indicate that fibrillar α-syn and HttEx1, rather than their precursor oligomers, are highly cytotoxic, the toxicity being associated to their ability to bind and permeabilize the cell membranes.