
Protein Homeostasis Diseases
Mechanisms and Novel Therapies
Description
Key Features
- Provides an interdisciplinary examination of protein homeostasis disorders, with an emphasis on treatment strategies employing small natural and pharmacological ligands
- Offers applied approaches in employing high throughput sequencing and screening to develop pharmacological chaperones to treat protein homeostasis disease
- Gathers expertise from a range of international chapter authors who work across various biological methods and disease specific disciplines of relevance
Readership
Table of Contents
I. Introduction of protein folding and homeostasis
1. Protein folding: how, why, and beyond
2. Protein homeostasis and diseaseII. Protein folding and homeostasis at the organismal and proteomic scales
3. Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for protein homeostasis diseases
4. Proteome-scale studies of protein stability
5. Classifying disease-associated variants using measures of protein activity and stabilityIII. Protein homeostasis disturbance in disease: Genetics, mechanisms, and modulation by natural ligands
6. Protein destabilization and degradation as a mechanism for hereditary disease
7. Detection of amyloid aggregation in living systems
8. Molecular mechanisms of amyloid aggregation in human proteinopathies
9. Metals and amyloid gain-of-toxic mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases
10. Vitamin B6-dependent enzymes and disease
11. Galactosemia: opportunities for novel therapies
12. Protein homeostasis and regulation of intracellular trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors
13. Structure-guided discovery of pharmacological chaperones targeting protein conformational and misfolding diseases
14. Virtual screening in drug discovery: a precious tool for a still-demanding
challenge
15. Differential scanning fluorimetry in the screening and validation of pharmacological chaperones for soluble and membrane proteins
16. Cellular high-throughput screening
17. High-throughput screening for intrinsically disordered proteins by using biophysical methods
18. Natural and pharmacological chaperones against accelerated protein degradation: uroporphyrinogen III synthase and congenital erythropoietic porphyria
Product details
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: February 13, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128191330
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128191323