Roland Riek

TL;DR: The TROSY principle should benefit a variety of multidimensional solution NMR experiments, especially with future use of yet somewhat higher polarizing magnetic fields than are presently available, and thus largely eliminate one of the key factors that limit work with larger molecules.

TL;DR: The 3D structure of the fibrils comprising Aβ(1–42), which was obtained by using hydrogen-bonding constraints from quenched hydrogen/deuterium-exchange NMR, side-chain packing constraints from pairwise mutagenesis studies, and parallel, in-register β-sheet arrangement from previous solid-state NMR studies, explains the sequence selectivity, the cooperativity, and the apparent unidirectionality of Aβ fibril growth.

TL;DR: It is shown that α-syn oligomers are toxic in vivo and thatα- syn variants that form oligomers might interact with and potentially disrupt membranes and the toxicity of these mutants by using a rat lentivirus system to investigate loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.

TL;DR: The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structure of the autonomously folding PrP domain contains most of the point-mutation sites that have been linked, in human PrP, to the occurrence of familial prion diseases, and shows that these mutations occur within, or directly adjacent to, regular secondary structures.

TL;DR: The NMR structures of the recombinant human prion protein hPrP(23-230) include a globular domain extending from residues 125-228, for which a detailed structure was obtained, and an N-terminal flexibly disordered "tail," which influences the local conformational state of the polypeptide segments.