Amyloid fibril formation from full-length and fragments of amylin |
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Authors: | Goldsbury C Goldie K Pellaud J Seelig J Frey P Müller S A Kistler J Cooper G J Aebi U |
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Institution: | Department of Biophysical Chemistry, M. E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, Basel, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | Amyloiddeposits of fibrillar human amylin (hA) in the pancreas may be a causative factor in type-2 diabetes. A detailed comparison of in vitro fibril formation by full-length hA(1-37) versus fragments of this peptide-hA(8-37) and hA(20-29)-is presented. Circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that fibril formation was accompanied by a conformational change: random coil to beta-sheet/alpha-helical structure. Fibril morphologies were visualized by electron microscopy and displayed a remarkable diversity. hA(20-29) formed flat ribbons consisting of numerous 3. 6-nm-wide protofibrils. In contrast, hA(1-37) and hA(8-37) formed polymorphic higher order fibrils by lateral association and/or coiling together of 5.0-nm-wide protofibril subunits. For full-length hA(1-37), the predominant fibril type contained three protofibrils and for hA(8-37), the predominant type contained two protofibrils. Polymerization was also monitored with the thioflavin-T binding assay, which revealed different kinetics of assembly for hA(1-37) and hA(8-37) fibrils. hA(20-29) fibrils did not bind thioflavin-T. Together the results demonstrate that the N-terminal region of the hA peptide influences the relative frequencies of the various higher order fibril types and thereby the overall kinetics of fibril formation. Furthermore, while residues 20-29 contribute to the fibrils' beta-sheet core, the flanking C- and N-terminal regions of the hA peptide determine the interactions involved in the formation of higher order coiled polymorphic superstructures. |
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Keywords: | amyloid fibril structure polymorphism amylin IAPP diabetes mellitus transmission electron microscopy (TEM) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) circular dichroism spectroscopy |
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