Objective
Protein aggregation is associated with some of the most prevalent and devastating neurodegenerative disorders in our society, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The intricate details of the aggregation process are now beginning to emerge through major efforts for characterizing the associated protein deposits . However, knowledge about the aggregation of membrane proteins, which account for about one third of the human genome , is still almost completely missing despite increasing evidence that implicates in particular the aggregation of those in the respiratory chain and glucose metabolism in pathological pathways.
To cover this huge gap, this project is aimed at elucidating the association of membrane protein aggregation with neurodegenerative diseases. The extensive biophysical investigation of the aggregates of two model sugar transporter proteins, galactose (GalP) and lactose (LacY) permeases, is proposed. Initially, controlled ways to promote the aggregation of these two proteins will be investigated in detail. The use of a range of biophysical spectroscopic methods is proposed to obtain information on the nature of the aggregates and their formation process. Further in vivo experiments will probe bacterial ageing in the presence of these aggregates. This work is expected to lead to new insights into the nature of membrane protein aggregates, characterization of their formation, and determination of their possible roles in neurodegenerative processes.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia alzheimer
- natural sciences biological sciences cell biology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins protein folding
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology parkinson
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology homeostasis
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
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CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom
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