Side chain-dependent stacking modulates tau filament structure |
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Authors: | Margittai Martin Langen Ralf |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. |
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Abstract: | The misfolding of proteins into highly ordered fibrils with similar physical properties is a hallmark of many degenerative diseases. Here, we use the microtubule associated protein tau as a model system to investigate the role of amino acid side chains in the formation of such fibrils. We identify a region (positions 272-289) in the tau protein that, in the fibrillar state, either forms part of a core of parallel, in-register, beta-strands, or remains unfolded. Single point mutations are sufficient to control this conformational switch with disease mutants G272V and DeltaK280 (found in familial forms of dementia) inducing a folded state. Through systematic mutagenesis we derive a propensity scale for individual amino acids to form fibrils with parallel, in-register, beta-strands. This scale should not only apply to tau fibrils but generally to all fibrils with same strand arrangement. |
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