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Structure and function of the molecular chaperone Hsp104 from yeast

Hilal Lashuel

The molecular chaperone Hsp104 plays a central role in the clearance of aggregates after heat shock and the propagation of yeast prions. Hsp104's disaggregation activity and prion propagation have been linked to its ability to resolubilize or remodel prote ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Development and validation of an expanded antibody toolset that captures alpha-synuclein pathological diversity in Lewy body diseases

Hilal Lashuel, Johannes Burtscher, Melek Firat Altay, Somanath Jagannath

The abnormal aggregation and accumulation of alpha-synuclein (aSyn) in the brain is a defining hallmark of synucleinopathies. Various aSyn conformations and post-translationally modified forms accumulate in pathological inclusions and vary in abundance amo ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Opportunities and challenges of alpha-synuclein as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies

Hilal Lashuel, Pedro José Santana Ribeiro Magalhães

Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common progressive neurodegenerative disease, develops and progresses for 10-15 years before the clinical diagnostic symptoms of the disease are manifested. Furthermore, several aspects of PD pathology overlap with ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Structural Basis of Huntingtin Fibril Polymorphism Revealed by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy of Exon 1 HTT Fibrils

Hilal Lashuel, Anass Chiki, Sergey Nazarov, Driss Boudeffa

The lack of detailed insight into the structure of aggregates formed by the huntingtin protein (HTT) has hampered the efforts to develop therapeutics and diagnostics targeting pathology formation in the brain of patients with Huntington's disease. To addre ...

2022

Unraveling the complexity of amyloid polymorphism using gold nanoparticles and cryo-EM

Francesco Stellacci, Hilal Lashuel, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Anass Chiki, Nadine Aït Bouziad, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Senthil Kumar Thangaraj, Sophie Vieweg

Increasing evidence suggests that amyloid polymorphism gives rise to different strains of amyloids with distinct toxicities and pathology-spreading properties. Validating this hypothesis is challenging due to a lack of tools and methods that allow for the ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Elucidating the role of C-terminal post-translational modifications using protein semisynthesis strategies: α-synuclein phosphorylation at tyrosine 125

Hilal Lashuel, Michel Prudent, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Mirva Hejjaoui, Filip Vercruysse

Despite increasing evidence that supports the role of different post-translational modifications (PTMs) in modulating α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregation and toxicity, relatively little is known about the functional consequences of each modification and whethe ...

2012

A new class of isothiocyanate-based irreversible inhibitors of macrophage migration inhibitory factor

Hilal Lashuel, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a homotrimeric multifunctional proinflammatory cytokine that has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Current therapeutic strategies for targeting MIF focus on ...

American Chemical Society2009

Extent of N-terminus exposure of monomeric alpha-synuclein determines its aggregation propensity

Hilal Lashuel, Anass Chiki

As an intrinsically disordered protein, monomeric alpha-synuclein (aSyn) occupies a large conformational space. Certain conformations lead to aggregation prone and non-aggregation prone intermediates, but identifying these within the dynamic ensemble of mo ...

Nature Research2020

Pathological substrate of memory impairment in multiple system atrophy

Hilal Lashuel, Melek Firat Altay

Aims: Synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease is caused by propagation of pathogenic alpha-synuclein between neurons. Previously, in multiple system atrophy (MSA), pathologically characterised by ectopic deposition of abnormal alpha-synuclein predomina ...

WILEY2022

How specific are the conformation-specific α-synuclein antibodies? Characterization and validation of 16 α-synuclein conformation-specific antibodies using well-characterized preparations of α-synuclein monomers, fibrils and oligomers with distinct structures and morphology

Hilal Lashuel, Somanath Jagannath, Senthil Kumar Thangaraj

Increasing evidence suggests that alpha-synuclein (α-syn) oligomers are obligate intermediates in the pathway involved in α-syn fibrillization and Lewy body (LB) formation, and may also accumulate within LBs in Parkinson's disease (PD) and other synucleino ...

2020

alpha-Synuclein O-GlcNAcylation alters aggregation and toxicity, revealing certain residues as potential inhibitors of Parkinson's disease

Hilal Lashuel, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier

A compelling link is emerging between the posttranslational modification O-GlcNAc and protein aggregation. A prime example is alpha-synuclein, which forms toxic aggregates that are associated with neurodegeneration in Parkinson's and related diseases. alph ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Deep learning augmented nanoplasmonic infrared sensor for structural protein biomarker-based detection of neurodegenerative diseases

Hilal Lashuel, Hatice Altug, Rajasekhar Kolla, Deepthy Kavungal, Pedro José Santana Ribeiro Magalhães, Senthil Kumar Thangaraj

We introduce an infrared metasurface sensor based on plasmonic surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy combined with immunoassay, which detects alpha-synuclein, an early structural biomarker protein for neurodegenerative diseases with clinical sp ...

SPIE2024

Structural properties of pore-forming oligomers of alpha-synuclein

Hilal Lashuel

Soluble oligomers are potent toxins in many neurodegenerative diseases, but little is known about the structure of soluble oligomers and their structure-toxicity relationship. Here we prepared on-pathway oligomers of the 140-residue protein alpha-synuclein ...

American Chemical Society2009

Overexpression of human alpha-Synuclein leads to dysregulated microbiome/metabolites with ageing in a rat model of Parkinson disease

Joan Romani Aumedes, Hilal Lashuel, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Florian Lang

Background Braak's hypothesis states that sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD) follows a specific progression of pathology from the peripheral to the central nervous system, and this progression can be monitored by detecting the accumulation of alpha-Synuclei ...

BMC2023

A New Chemoenzymatic Semisynthetic Approach Provides Insight into the Role of Phosphorylation beyond Exon1 of Huntingtin and Reveals N-Terminal Fragment Length-Dependent Distinct Mechanisms of Aggregation

Hilal Lashuel, Rajasekhar Kolla, Jonathan Jean-Pierre Ricci, Andreas Reif, Gopinath Pushparathinam

Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative dis- order caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine repeat (>36Q) in the N-terminal domain of the huntingtin protein (Htt), which renders the protein or fragments thereof more prone to aggregate and form inclus ...

2021

Ganciclovir derivatives for modulating innate and adaptive immunity and for use in immunotherapy

Hilal Lashuel, Ritwik Burai

Compositions and methods for modulating innate and adaptive immunity and for use in immunotherapy are disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to novel ganciclovir derivatives and methods of using them for the treatment of immune-related disorders, ...

2017

Site-Specific Hyperphosphorylation Inhibits, Rather than Promotes, Tau Fibrillization, Seeding Capacity, and Its Microtubule Binding

Hilal Lashuel, Rajasekhar Kolla, Mahmood Haj Yahya, Gopinath Pushparathinam

The consistent observation of phosphorylated tau in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease has contributed to the emergence of a model where hyperphosphorylation triggers both tau disassociation from microtubules and its subsequent aggregation. Herein, we ap ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Correlative light and electron microscopy suggests that mutant huntingtin dysregulates the endolysosomal pathway in presymptomatic Huntington's disease

Hilal Lashuel

Huntington's disease (HD) is a late onset, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which early pathogenic events remain poorly understood. Here we show that mutant exon 1 HTT proteins are recruited to a subset of cytoplasmic aggregates in the cell bodies ...

BMC2021

One-Pot Semisynthesis of Exon 1 of the Huntingtin Protein: New Tools for Elucidating the Role of Posttranslational Modifications in the Pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease

Giovanni Dietler, Hilal Lashuel, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Annalisa Ansaloni, Jae Sun Jeong

The natural enzymes involved in regulating many of the posttranslational modifications (PTMs) within the first 17 residues (Nt17) of Huntingtin exon1 (Httex1) remain unknown. A semisynthetic strategy that allows the site-specific introduction of PTMs withi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

The Role of Post-translational Modifications on the Energy Landscape of Huntingtin N-Terminus

Hilal Lashuel, Charlotte Julie Caroline Gehin

Huntington disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a polymorphic tract of polyglutamine repeats in exon 1 of the huntingtin protein, which is thought to be responsible for protein aggregation and neuronal death. The polyglutamine tract is p ...

2019