Effect of Proline Mutations on the Monomer Conformations of Amylin |
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Authors: | Chi-cheng Chiu,Sadanand Singh,Juan  J. de  Pablo |
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Affiliation: | † Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois;‡ Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;§ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin |
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Abstract: | The formation of human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is implicated in the loss of pancreatic β-cells in type II diabetes. Rat amylin, which differs from human amylin at six residues, does not lead to formation of amyloid fibrils. Pramlintide is a synthetic analog of human amylin that shares three proline substitutions with rat amylin. Pramlintide has a much smaller propensity to form amyloid aggregates and has been widely prescribed in amylin replacement treatment. It is known that the three prolines attenuate β-sheet formation. However, the detailed effects of these proline substitutions on full-length hIAPP remain poorly understood. In this work, we use molecular simulations and bias-exchange metadynamics to investigate the effect of proline substitutions on the conformation of the hIAPP monomer. Our results demonstrate that hIAPP can adopt various β-sheet conformations, some of which have been reported in experiments. The proline substitutions perturb the formation of long β-sheets and reduce their stability. More importantly, we find that all three proline substitutions of pramlintide are required to inhibit β conformations and stabilize the α-helical conformation. Fewer substitutions do not have a significant inhibiting effect. |
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