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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

A Practical Guide to the Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics Using Metainference.
T Löhr, C Camilloni, M Bonomi, M Vendruscolo
– Methods Mol Biol
(2019)
2022,
313
(doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_13)
Small molecule sequestration of amyloid-β as a drug discovery strategy for Alzheimer’s disease
G Heller, F Aprile, T Michaels, R Limbocker, M Perni, FS Ruggeri, B Mannini, T Löhr, M Bonomi, C Camilloni, A De Simone, I Felli, R Pierattelli, T Knowles, C Dobson, M Vendruscolo
(2019)
729392
(doi: 10.1101/729392)
Differential Interactome and Innate Immune Response Activation of Two Structurally Distinct Misfolded Protein Oligomers.
B Mannini, G Vecchi, A Labrador-Garrido, B Fabre, G Fani, JM Franco, K Lilley, D Pozo, M Vendruscolo, F Chiti, CM Dobson, C Roodveldt
– ACS chemical neuroscience
(2019)
10,
3464
(doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00088)
The Hsp70 Chaperone System Stabilizes a Thermo-sensitive Subproteome in E. coli
L Zhao, G Vecchi, M Vendruscolo, R Körner, M Hayer-Hartl, FU Hartl
– Cell Rep
(2019)
28,
1335
(doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.081)
Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations
PLUMED consortium
– Nat Methods
(2019)
16,
670
(doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0506-8)
Soluble aggregates present in cerebrospinal fluid change in size and mechanism of toxicity during Alzheimer's disease progression
S De, DR Whiten, FS Ruggeri, C Hughes, M Rodrigues, DI Sideris, CG Taylor, FA Aprile, S Muyldermans, TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo, C Bryant, K Blennow, I Skoog, S Kern, H Zetterberg, D Klenerman
– Acta neuropathologica communications
(2019)
7,
120
(doi: 10.1186/s40478-019-0777-4)
Fast Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Reveals the Aggregation Processes of α-Synuclein and Polyglutamine in Aging Caenorhabditis elegans
RF Laine, T Sinnige, KY Ma, AJ Haack, C Poudel, P Gaida, N Curry, M Perni, EAA Nollen, CM Dobson, M Vendruscolo, GS Kaminski Schierle, CF Kaminski
– ACS Chemical Biology
(2019)
14,
1628
(doi: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00354)
Determination of protein structural ensembles using cryo-electron microscopy.
M Bonomi, M Vendruscolo
– Current opinion in structural biology
(2019)
56,
37
(doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2018.10.006)
Expression of the amyloid-β peptide in a single pair of C. elegans sensory neurons modulates the associated behavioural response
T Sinnige, P Ciryam, S Casford, CM Dobson, M de Bono, M Vendruscolo
– PloS one
(2019)
14,
e0217746
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217746)
Common Regulatory Pathways Mediate Activity of MicroRNAs Inducing Cardiomyocyte Proliferation
C Torrini, RJ Cubero, E Dirkx, L Braga, H Ali, G Prosdocimo, MI Gutierrez, C Collesi, D Licastro, L Zentilin, M Mano, S Zacchigna, M Vendruscolo, M Marsili, A Samal, M Giacca
– Cell Rep
(2019)
27,
2759
(doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.05.005)
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Email address

mv245@cam.ac.uk

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