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A β-amino acid modified heptapeptide containing a designed recognition element disrupts fibrillization of the amyloid β-peptide

✍ Scribed by Valeria Castelletto; Ian W. Hamley; Teck Lim; Matias B. De Tullio; Eduardo M. Castaño

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
356 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
1075-2617

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Abstract

We study the complex formation of a peptide βAβAKLVFF, previously developed by our group, with Aβ(1–42) in aqueous solution. Circular dichroism spectroscopy is used to probe the interactions between βAβAKLVFF and Aβ(1–42), and to study the secondary structure of the species in solution. Thioflavin T fluorescence spectroscopy shows that the population of fibers is higher in βAβAKLVFF/Aβ(1–42) mixtures compared to pure Aβ(1–42) solutions. TEM and cryo‐TEM demonstrate that co‐incubation of βAβAKLVFF with Aβ(1–42) causes the formation of extended dense networks of branched fibrils, very different from the straight fibrils observed for Aβ(1–42) alone. Neurotoxicity assays show that although βAβAKLVFF alters the fibrillization of Aβ(1–42), it does not decrease the neurotoxicity, which suggests that toxic oligomeric Aβ(1–42) species are still present in the βAβAKLVFF/Aβ(1–42) mixtures. Our results show that our designed peptide binds to Aβ(1–42) and changes the amyloid fibril morphology. This is shown to not necessarily translate into reduced toxicity. Copyright © 2010 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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