The kinetic behavior of insulin fibrillation is determined by heterogeneous nucleation pathways |
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Authors: | Librizzi Fabio Rischel Christian |
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Institution: | Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Astronomiche, Via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy. librizzi@fisica.unipa.it |
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Abstract: | When subjected to acidic conditions and high temperature, insulin is known to produce fibrils that display the common properties of disease amyloids. Thus, clarifying the mechanisms of insulin fibrillation can help the general understanding of amyloidal aggregation. Insulin fibrillation exhibits a very sharp time dependence, with a pronounced lag phase and subsequent explosive growth of amyloidal aggregates. Here we show that the initial stages of this process can be well described by exponential growth of the fibrillated proteins. This indicates that the process is mainly controlled by a secondary nucleation pathway. |
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Keywords: | insulin protein aggregation amyloids nucleation Thioflavin T fluorescence |
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