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Nanoplasmonic Infrared Microarray Sensor Enabling Structural Protein Biomarker-Based Drug Screening for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Hilal Lashuel, Hatice Altug, Deepthy Kavungal

The misfolding of proteins from native monomers into β-sheet-rich fibrils via oligomers is a key hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Identifying and screening drugs that inhibit protein aggregation for early disease intervention remains challeng ...

2025

Self-driving microscopy detects the onset of protein aggregation and enables intelligent Brillouin imaging

Aleksandra Radenovic, Hilal Lashuel, Lely Feletti, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim

The process of protein aggregation, central to neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, is challenging to study due to its unpredictable nature and relatively rapid kinetics. Understanding its biomechanics is crucial for unraveling its role in disease ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Uses of aerolysin nanopores

Hilal Lashuel, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao

The invention relates to use of an aerolysin nanopore for the discrimination of different protein isoforms bearing different post-translational modifications (PTMs) and to methods for detecting adverse medical conditions associated with the presence of pep ...

2025

Huntingtin inclusion bodies have distinct immunophenotypes and ubiquitination profiles in the Huntington’s disease human cerebral cortex

Hilal Lashuel

Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative condition caused by a CAG repeat expansion mutation in the gene encoding the huntingtin (HTT) protein. The accumulation of HTT inclusion bodies is a pathological hallmark of HD and a common target ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays: Data sharing, standardization needed for clinical use

Hilal Lashuel

Alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays can improve neurodegenerative disease diagnosis and care, but widespread use depends on a framework that standardizes protocols and encourages data sharing. ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Multi-Targeting Macrocyclic Peptides as Nanomolar Inhibitors of Self- and Cross-Seeded Amyloid Self-Assembly of α-Synuclein

Hilal Lashuel, Muhammed Muazzam Kamil Syed

Amyloid self-assembly of alpha-synuclein (alpha Syn) is linked to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has recently emerged as a risk factor for PD. Cross-interactions between their amyloidogenic proteins may act as molecular ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Multi‐Targeting Makrozyklische Peptide als Nanomolare Inhibitoren der Selbst‐ und Kreuznukleation der Amyloiden Selbstassemblierung von α‐Synuclein

Hilal Lashuel, Muhammed Muazzam Kamil Syed

Die amyloide Selbstassemblierung von α‐Synuclein (αSyn) wird mit der Pathogenese der Parkinson‐Krankheit (PD) in Verbindung gebracht. Typ 2 Diabetes (T2D) hat sich kürzlich als Risikofaktor für PD herausgestellt. Kreuzinteraktionen zwischen den amyloidogen ...

Wiley2025

Qatar national cancer care and research: pioneering strategies for global health excellence

Hilal Lashuel

Qatar's cancer care strategy is shaped by the National Cancer Strategy (2011) and subsequent frameworks 2017–22, leading to the Qatar Cancer Plan 2023–2026. These initiatives emphasise prevention, early detection, and evidence-based management to reduce th ...

Elsevier BV2025

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by TARDBP mutations: from genetics to TDP-43 proteinopathy

Hilal Lashuel

Mutations in the TARDBP gene, which encodes the TDP-43 protein, account for only 3–5% of familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and less than 1% of cases that are apparently idiopathic. However, the discovery of neuronal inclusions of TDP-43 as th ...

2025

Effective Inhibition of TDP-43 Aggregation by Native State Stabilization

Hilal Lashuel, Lixin Yang, Yllza Jasiqi

Preventing the misfolding or aggregation of transactive response DNA binding protein with 43 kDa (TDP-43) is the most actively pursued disease-modifying strategy to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. In this work, we ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Transactive response dna-binding protein 43kda (tdp-43) mutants and uses thereof

Hilal Lashuel, Lixin Yang

The invention relates to TDP-43 protein mutants and uses thereof. The invention further relates to methods for the preparation of TDP-43 protein mutants aggregates, including fibrils and uses thereof. The invention further relates to use the TDP-43 protein ...

2024

O-GlcNAc forces an α-synuclein amyloid strain with notably diminished seeding and pathology

Hilal Lashuel, Yllza Jasiqi

Amyloid-forming proteins such alpha-synuclein and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, can form different fibril structures or strains with distinct toxic properties, seeding activities and pathology. Understanding the determin ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A Versatile Method for Site-Specific Chemical Installation of Aromatic Posttranslational Modification Analogs into Proteins

Hilal Lashuel, Rajasekhar Kolla, Shaswati Mandal

Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of proteins play central roles in regulating the protein structure, interactome, and functions. A notable modification site is the aromatic side chain of Tyr, which undergoes modifications such as phosphorylation and ...

2024

Deep learning augmented nanoplasmonic infrared sensor for structural protein biomarker-based detection of neurodegenerative diseases

Hilal Lashuel, Hatice Altug, Deepthy Kavungal, Rajasekhar Kolla, Pedro José Santana Ribeiro Magalhães

We introduce an infrared metasurface sensor based on plasmonic surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy combined with immunoassay, which detects alpha-synuclein, an early structural biomarker protein for neurodegenerative diseases with clinical sp ...

SPIE2024

Research Priorities on the Role of α-Synuclein in Parkinson's Disease Pathogenesis

Hilal Lashuel

Various forms of Parkinson's disease, including its common sporadic form, are characterized by prominent α-synuclein (αSyn) aggregation in affected brain regions. However, the role of αSyn in the pathogenesis and evolution of the disease remains unclear, d ...

2024

Method of preparation of amyloidogenic protein aggregates and uses thereof

Hilal Lashuel, Galina Limorenko

The invention relates to methods for the preparation of method of preparation of Tau aggregates, including fibrils, fibrillar species, soluble and insoluble oligomeric species, new Tau aggregates and uses thereof. The invention further relates to the uses ...

2024

Mouse α-synuclein fibrils are structurally and functionally distinct from human fibrils associated with Lewy body diseases

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Hilal Lashuel, Sonia Donzelli

The intricate process of α-synuclein aggregation and fibrillization holds pivotal roles in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). While mouse α-synuclein can fibrillize in vitro, whether these fibrils commonly used in research to induc ...

2024

Author Correction: Fully co-factor-free ClearTau platform produces seeding-competent Tau fibrils for reconstructing pathological Tau aggregates

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Hilal Lashuel, Sergey Nazarov, Galina Limorenko, Rajasekhar Kolla, Meltem Tatli

Nature Research2024

Post-translational glycosylation diminishes α-synuclein pathology formation

Hilal Lashuel

O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is an endogenous form of glycosylation that alters the structure of alpha-synuclein amyloid fibrils and attenuates their pathogenetic properties. The modified fibrils have a significantly reduced ability to seed the ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Development and validation of an expanded antibody toolset that captures alpha-synuclein pathological diversity in Lewy body diseases (vol 10, 19, 2024)

Hilal Lashuel, Melek Firat Altay, Johannes Burtscher, Somanath Jagannath

In this article, the wrong slot blots of LASH-BL34-45 and BL 4B12 were presented in Figure 2a; the figure should have appeared as shown below. The original article has been corrected. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024