Atomic-resolution structure of a disease-relevant Aß(1-42) amyloid fibril.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 113(34): E4976-84, 2016 08 23.
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ABSTRACT
Amyloid-ß (Aß) is present in humans as a 39- to 42-amino acid residue metabolic product of the amyloid precursor protein. Although the two predominant forms, Aß(1-40) and Aß(1-42), differ in only two residues, they display different biophysical, biological, and clinical behavior. Aß(1-42) is the more neurotoxic species, aggregates much faster, and dominates in senile plaque of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Although small Aß oligomers are believed to be the neurotoxic species, Aß amyloid fibrils are, because of their presence in plaques, a pathological hallmark of AD and appear to play an important role in disease progression through cell-to-cell transmissibility. Here, we solved the 3D structure of a disease-relevant Aß(1-42) fibril polymorph, combining data from solid-state NMR spectroscopy and mass-per-length measurements from EM. The 3D structure is composed of two molecules per fibril layer, with residues 15-42 forming a double-horseshoe-like cross-ß-sheet entity with maximally buried hydrophobic side chains. Residues 1-14 are partially ordered and in a ß-strand conformation, but do not display unambiguous distance restraints to the remainder of the core structure.
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Fragmentos de Peptídeos
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Peptídeos beta-Amiloides
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Humans
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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2016
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