α-Synuclein fibril-specific nanobody reduces prion-like α-synuclein spreading in mice

Butler et al. selected disulfide bond-free nanobodies to target α-synuclein fibrils. Nanobody PFFNB2 was shown to disaggregate α-synuclein fibrils in vitro and inhibit α-synuclein pathology development in neuron cultures and mouse models.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yemima R. Butler, Yuqing Liu, Ramhari Kumbhar, Peiran Zhao, Kundlik Gadhave, Ning Wang, Yanmei Li, Xiaobo Mao, Wenjing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31787-2