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            <journal-title>ACS Chemical Neuroscience</journal-title>
            <abbrev-journal-title>ACS Chem. Neurosci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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         <issn publication-format="print">1948-7193</issn>
         <issn publication-format="electronic">1948-7193</issn>
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            <publisher-name>American Chemical Society</publisher-name>
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         <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1021/acschemneuro.4c00178</article-id>
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            <article-title>Ligand Profiling
as a Diagnostic Tool to Differentiate
Patient-Derived α-Synuclein Polymorphs</article-title>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Chisholm</surname>
                  <given-names>Timothy
S.</given-names>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Melki</surname>
                  <given-names>Ronald</given-names>
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               <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5182-1859</contrib-id>
               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Hunter</surname>
                  <given-names>Christopher A.</given-names>
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            <aff id="aff1">
               <label>†</label>
               <institution content-type="dept" xlink:type="simple">Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry</institution>, <institution-wrap>
                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">2152</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">University
of Cambridge</institution>
               </institution-wrap>, <addr-line>Lensfield Road</addr-line>, <city>Cambridge</city>
               <postal-code>CB2 1EW</postal-code>, <country country="GB">U.K.</country>
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               <label>‡</label>
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                  <institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold" specific-use="source:pplus">27048</institution-id>
                  <institution xlink:type="simple">Institut
François Jacob (MIRCen), CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay</institution>
               </institution-wrap>, <addr-line>18 Route du Panorama</addr-line>, <postal-code>92260</postal-code>
               <city>Fontenay-aux-Roses</city>, <country country="FR">France</country>
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               <label>*</label>Email: <email xlink:type="simple">herchelsmith.orgchem@ch.cam.ac.uk</email>.</corresp>
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         <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
            <day>01</day>
            <month>05</month>
            <year>2024</year>
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         <pub-date date-type="issue-pub">
            <day>15</day>
            <month>05</month>
            <year>2024</year>
         </pub-date>
         <volume>15</volume>
         <issue>10</issue>
         <fpage>2080</fpage>
         <lpage>2088</lpage>
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            <date date-type="received">
               <day>24</day>
               <month>03</month>
               <year>2024</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="accepted">
               <day>22</day>
               <month>04</month>
               <year>2024</year>
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            <date date-type="rev-recd">
               <day>18</day>
               <month>04</month>
               <year>2024</year>
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               <day>01</day>
               <month>05</month>
               <year>2024</year>
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            <copyright-statement>© 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society</copyright-statement>
            <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
            <copyright-holder>The Authors</copyright-holder>
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         <abstract>
            <p>Amyloid
fibrils are characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases,
including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. While
different diseases may have fibrils formed of the same protein, the
supramolecular morphology of these fibrils is disease-specific. Here,
a method is reported to distinguish eight morphologically distinct
amyloid fibrils based on differences in ligand binding properties.
Eight fibrillar polymorphs of α-synuclein (αSyn) were
investigated: five generated de novo using recombinant αSyn
and three generated using protein misfolding cyclic amplification
(PMCA) of recombinant αSyn seeded with brain homogenates from
deceased patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD),
multiple system atrophy (MSA), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
Fluorescence binding assays were carried out for each fibril using
a toolkit of six different ligands. The fibril samples were separated
into five categories based on a binary classification of whether they
bound specific ligands or not. Quantitative binding measurements then
allowed every fibrillar polymorph to be uniquely identified, and the
PMCA fibrils derived from PD, MSA, and DLB patients could be unambiguously
distinguished. This approach constitutes a novel and operationally
simple method to differentiate amyloid fibril morphologies and to
identify disease states using PMCA fibrils obtained by seeding with
patient samples.</p>
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binding site</kwd>
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binding assay</kwd>
            <kwd>polymorphs</kwd>
            <kwd>protein misfolding cyclic
amplification</kwd>
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                     <institution>Equipment Call (EP/P030467/ , Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council</institution>
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