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Recent Publications from the Biological Research Interest Group

Identification of potent high-affinity secondary nucleation inhibitors of Aβ42 aggregation from an ultra-large chemical library using Deep Docking
M Brezinova, F Brotzakis, R Horne, V Roy Chowdhury, R Gregory, A Gonzalez Diaz, F Gentile, M Vendruscolo
– Molecular Systems Biology
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1038/S44320-025-00159-5)
Identification of potent high-affinity secondary nucleation inhibitors of Aβ42 aggregation from an ultra-large chemical library using Deep Docking
M Brezinova, F Brotzakis, R Horne, V Roy Chowdhury, R Gregory, Y Bian, A Gonzalez Diaz, F Gentile, M Vendruscolo
– Molecular Systems Biology
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1038/S44320-025-00159-5)
Large-scale visualization of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson's disease brain tissue.
R Andrews, B Fu, CE Toomey, JC Breiter, J Lachica, JS Beckwith, R Tian, EE Brock, L-M Needham, GJ Chant, C Loiseau, A Deconfin, K Baspin, R Popovic, J Evans, Y Goh, B Kurt, L Senicar, M Edmonds, T Bartels, N Bengoa-Vergniory, PJ Magill, Z Jaunmuktane, OJ Freeman, BJM Taylor, J Hardy, T Lashley, M Ryten, M Vendruscolo, NW Wood, LE Weiss, S Gandhi, SF Lee
– Nature Biomedical Engineering
(2025)
1
(DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01496-4)
Nanoscale profiling of evolving intermolecular interactions in ageing FUS condensates.
A Miller, Z Toprakcioglu, S Qamar, P St George-Hyslop, FS Ruggeri, TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo
– Communications chemistry
(2025)
8,
284
(DOI: 10.1038/S42004-025-01659-Z)
Advances in Proximity-Assisted Bioconjugation.
M Canzano, GJL Bernardes
– Accounts of Chemical Research
(2025)
58,
2939
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00368)
Design of Tau Aggregation Inhibitors Using Iterative Machine Learning and a Polymorph-Specific Brain-Seeded Fibril Amplification Assay
A Santambrogio, RI Horne, MA Metrick, NCT Gallagher, ZF Brotzakis, D Rinauro, E Vourkou, K Papanikolopoulou, EMC Skoulakis, S Linse, B Caughey, M Vendruscolo
– J Am Chem Soc
(2025)
147,
35942
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c12812)
Tumor-Specific STING Agonist Synthesis via a Two-Component Prodrug System
N-S Hsu, C Tang, RV Mendes, C Labão-Almeida, CV Dos Reis, AR Coelho, MC Marques, M Cabeza Cabrerizo, R Misteli, TPC Rooney, M Hyvönen, F Corzana, R Fior, GJL Bernardes
– Nat Chem
(2025)
1
(DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01930-9)
Microglial activation and alpha-synuclein oligomers drive the early inflammatory phase of Parkinson’s disease
J Evans, M Grant-Peters, J Beckwith, C Toomey, R Popovic, J Breiter, J Brenton, A Fairbrother-Browne, S Strohbuecker, J Lachica, M Rodriguez-Lopez, E Brock, B Fu, L Nahidiazar, P Lopez-Garcia, R Ferguson, R Saleeb, H Lucas-Clarke, A Penverne, K D’Sa, CW Pang, M Horrocks, M Vendruscolo, N Wood, S Lee, M Ryten, S Gandhi
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.25.671921)
Rapid elongation drives the exceptionally fast aggregation of medin, the most common localized human amyloid
M Vendruscolo, VR Chowdhury, R Horne, M Cali, Z Toprakcioglu, S Linse
(2025)
(DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6476074/v1)
α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease
J Breiter, J Beckwith, E Brock, J Lachica, C Toomey, B Fu, M Ryten, L Weiss, N Wood, S Gandhi, M Vendruscolo, S Lee
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.19.670819)
[2.2.1]Heterobicyclic Bromovinyl Sulfones for Thiol-Triggered Strategies in Linker Chemistry: Aza- vs Oxa-Norbornadienic Systems.
M Carranza, AT Carmona, C Maya, E Gil de Montes, AV Vasco, GJL Bernardes, AJ Moreno-Vargas
– Bioconjug Chem
(2025)
36,
2079
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5c00371)
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA
D Schmidl, SM Becker, JM Edgerton, S Balasubramanian
– Nature Chemistry
(2025)
1
(DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01925-6)
Structure-based Generation of a Secondary Nucleation Inhibitor in α-Synuclein Aggregation Using a Conditional Diffusion Model
H Zhang, R Horne, Z Faidon Brotzakis, C Harris, P Liò, M Vendruscolo
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.16.670694)
Predicting Experimental Success in De Novo Binder Design: A Meta-Analysis of 3,766 Experimentally Characterised Binders
MD Overath, ASH Rygaard, CP Jacobsen, V Brasas, O Morell, P Sormanni, TP Jenkins
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.14.670059)
Correction to: Modifying recombinant purple acid phosphatase using computational design (European Biophysics Journal, (2025), 10.1007/s00249-025-01779-3)
A Venkatramani, M Ali, O Predeina, JC Molloy, P Sormanni, EAH Hall
– European biophysics journal : EBJ
(2025)
1
(DOI: 10.1007/s00249-025-01792-6)
Classification of Tauopathies from Human Brain Homogenates through Salt-Modulated Tau Amplification
A Santambrogio, M Metrick, P Xu, S Koga, B Ghetti, D Dickson, B Caughey, M Vendruscolo
(2025)
(DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.05.25331458)
A Charge-Driven Strategy for Covalent Modification and Modulation of Biomolecular Condensates
Z Chen, L Liu, J Cattin, TPJ Knowles, GJL Bernardes
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2025)
147,
28558
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c06625)
<i>Escherichia coli</i> with a 57-codon genetic code.
WE Robertson, FBH Rehm, M Spinck, RL Schumann, R Tian, W Liu, Y Gu, AA Kleefeldt, CF Day, KC Liu, Y Christova, JF Zürcher, FL Böge, J Birnbaum, L van Bijsterveldt, JW Chin
– Science (New York, N.Y.)
(2025)
eady4368
(DOI: 10.1126/science.ady4368)
SCoTCH- seq reveals that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine encodes regulatory information across DNA strands
S Balasubramanian, J Hardwick, S Dhir, A Kirchner, A Simeone, S Flynn, J Edgerton, R de Cesaris Araujo Tavares, I Esain Garcia, D Tannahill, P Golder, J Monahan, W Gosal
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2025)
122,
e2512204122
(DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2512204122)
Recruitment of Aβ into α-Synuclein Condensates Catalyzes Primary Nucleation of α-Synuclein Aggregation
OM Morris, A Röntgen, Z Toprakcioglu, M Cali, S Dada, M Vendruscolo
– ACS central science
(2025)
11,
1481
(DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00614)

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