• Degradation of insulin amyloid by antibiotic minocycline and formation of toxic intermediates 

      Mori, Wakako; Yuzu, Keisuke; Lobsiger, Nadine; Nishioka, Hideo; Sato, Hisako; Nagase, Terumasa; Iwaya, Keiichi; Lindgren, Mikael; Zako, Tamotsu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Insulin balls, localized insulin amyloids formed at subcutaneous insulin-injection sites in patients with diabetes, cause poor glycemic control owing to impairments in insulin absorption. Our previous study has shown that ...
    • Insulin amyloid polymorphs: implications for iatrogenic cytotoxicity† 

      Yuzu, Keisuke; Lindgren, Mikael; Nyström, Sofie; Zhang, Jun; Mori, Wakako; Kunitomi, Risako; Nagase, Terumasa; Iwaya, Keiichi; Hammarström, Per; Zako, Tamotsu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Amyloid specific fluorescent probes are becoming an important tool for studies of disease progression and conformational polymorphisms in diseases related to protein misfolding and aggregation such as localized and systemic ...