Neural Regeneration Research ›› 2022, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 559-560.doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.320983

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Heat shock factor 1 is a direct anti-amyloid factor: connecting neurodegeneration and uncontrolled growth

Zijian Tang, Chengkai Dai*   

  1. Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA 
  • Online:2022-03-15 Published:2021-10-15
  • Contact: Chengkai Dai, PhD,Chengkai.dai@nih.gov.
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    This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research (to CD). The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. 

Abstract: Worldwide, more than 40 million people are afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Esquerda-Canals et al., 2017). AD is a devastating neurodegenerative disroder characterized by progressive decline in cognitive abilities. A hallmark of AD and other neurodegenerative disorders in humans is the aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils and their deposition into plaques and intracellular inclusions (Iadanza et al., 2018). In AD, following a series of proteolytic cleavage events amyloid precursor proteins give rise to Aβ monomers, which, in turn, assemble into soluble amyloid oligomers (AOs) that ultimately become insoluble mature amyloid fibrils enriched with highly ordered cross β-sheet structures. This entire process is termed as amyloidogenesis (Chen et al., 2017).