A sudden collapse: the disaggregation of amyloid fibres
Suzanne Couzijn1, Ellen Aa Nollen1
1European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
The EMBO Journal
|July 6, 2022
Abstract:
A hallmark of age-related neurodegenerative diseases is the presence of highly stable protein aggregates, also known as amyloid fibres. As these fibres are strongly associated with disease, it is thought that clearance of these fibres could delay or prevent disease progression. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Beton et al unravel how the Hsc70/DNAJB1/Apg2 disaggregase machinery disassembles amyloid fibres, using α-synuclein fibrils implicated in Parkinson's Disease as a model substrate.


