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Professor Michele Vendruscolo

Professor of Biophysics

Our research

In the last 15 years our research has been focused on the development of methods of characterising the structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins in previously inaccessible states. These methods are based on the use of experimental data, in particular from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, as structural restraints in molecular dynamics simulations. Through this approach it is possible to obtain information about a variety of protein conformations, as for example those populated during the folding process, and about protein interactions in complex environments, including those generating aggregate species that are associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Application to neurodegenerative diseases

More recently, these studies have led us to investigate the physico-chemical principles of proteins homeostasis and their application to the development of therapeutic strategies against neurodegenerative diseases. Starting from the observation that proteins are expressed in the cell at levels close to their solubility limits, we are developing approaches to prevent or delay misfolding disorders based on the enhancement of our quality control mechanisms against protein aggregation.

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Publications

Insights into the Inhibition Mechanism of Biomolecular Self-Assembly from Chemical Kinetics
P Arosio, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson, TPJ Knowles
– Biophysical Journal
(2014)
106,
682a
(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.3776)
Determination of Primary Nucleation Mechanisms of α-Synuclein Amyloid Aggregation
FA Aprile, G Meisl, AK Buell, P Flagmeier, CM Dobson, M Vendruscolo, TPJ Knowles
– Biophysical Journal
(2014)
106,
268a
(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.1570)
Structural investigation of the folding of an immunoglobulin domain on the ribosome using NMR Spectroscopy
A Cassaignau, L Cabrita, C Waudby, X Wang, H Launay, C Camilloni, M-E Karyadi, S Chan, M Vendruscolo, C Dobson, J Christodoulou
– FASEB JOURNAL
(2014)
28,
(link to publication)
Elucidating the Structural Basis of α-Synuclein Fibrillation using Small Camelid Nanobodies
F El Turk, G Tomba, E De Genst, T Guillams, P Kukic, M Vendruscolo, C Dobson
– Biophysical Journal
(2014)
106,
257A
(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.1512)
Chemical kinetics for drug discovery to combat protein aggregation diseases
P Arosio, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson, TPJ Knowles
– Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
(2014)
35,
127
MD Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with Replica-Averaged Chemical Shift Restraints
B Fu, P Kukic, C Camilloni, M Vendruscolo
– Biophysical Journal
(2014)
106,
481a
(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.2714)
Determination of Primary Nucleation Mechanisms of α-Synuclein Amyloid Aggregation
FA Aprile, G Meisl, AK Buell, P Flagmeier, CM Dobson, M Vendruscolo, TPJ Knowles
– BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2014)
106,
267A
(link to publication)
A clear view of polymorphism, twist, and chirality in amyloid fibril formation
LR Volpatti, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson, TPJ Knowles
– ACS nano
(2013)
7,
10443
(doi: 10.1021/nn406121w)
Higher order amyloid fibril structure by MAS NMR and DNP spectroscopy
GT Debelouchina, MJ Bayro, AW Fitzpatrick, V Ladizhansky, MT Colvin, MA Caporini, CP Jaroniec, VS Bajaj, M Rosay, CE Macphee, M Vendruscolo, WE Maas, CM Dobson, RG Griffin
– J Am Chem Soc
(2013)
135,
19237
(doi: 10.1021/ja409050a)
Replica-Averaged Metadynamics
C Camilloni, A Cavalli, M Vendruscolo
– Journal of chemical theory and computation
(2013)
9,
5610
(doi: 10.1021/ct4006272)
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mv245@cam.ac.uk

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