Abstract:
:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by fibrillar deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides and neurofibrillary tangles of Tau proteins. Aβ peptides are composed of 37-49 residues, among which the Aβ42 isoform is particularly toxic and aggregation-prone and is enriched in the plaques of AD brains and thus considered central to the development of AD. Therefore, disaggregation and disruption provide potential therapeutic approaches to reduce, inhibit, and even reverse Aβ aggregation. Here we capture the atomic-level details of the interactions between sigmoid Aβ42 fibril 2MXU or 5KK3 and either natural tanshinone compounds TS1 or TS0 or negatively charged ER, proposing two unprecedented disassembly mechanisms. Natural TS1 or TS0 prefers to insert into the cavity together with part at the surface of the 2MXU to open up the mouth and twist the conformation, destroying the ordered growth of subsequent monomers along the fibril axis. For the more compact two-fold 5KK3 , attachment of TS1 or TS0 at the surface including some inserted in cavity results in the separation of the two folds. In the two sigmoid fibril systems, it is no longer applicable for the routine criteria to assess Aβ42 fibril disassembly by introduction of these drugs, such as either reduced H-bond number, decreased β-sheet contents, or both. ER, like-charged to Aβ42 fibril, is especially exceptional, and departs utterly from the neutral ones to disassemble Aβ42 fibril. Besides the inapplicable routine criteria, positive binding energy between ER and Aβ42 fibril also deviates from the hypotheses of "ligands exhibiting greater affinity for the β-amyloid peptide are effective at altering its aggregation and inhibiting cell toxicity" ( Cairo et al. , Biochemistry 2002 , 41 , 8620 - 8629 ) but results in stronger disassembly effect on the two kinds of sigmoid Aβ42 fibrils than neutral TS0 or TS1. The disassembly power of charged ER molecules derives from its stronger deformation ability to the conformation of Aβ42 fibril than the neutral ones, twisting the one-fold 2MXU into tapered-shape and separating two-fold 5KK3 in two parts further, which is in great agreement with experimental observations ( Irwin et al. Biomacromolecules 2013 , 14 ( 1 ), 264 - 274 ). The unusual disassembly mechanisms fill the gaps and offer an alternative direction in engineering new inhibitors to treat AD.
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ACS Chem Neuroscijournal_title
ACS chemical neuroscienceauthors
Xing X,Liu C,Ali A,Kang B,Li P,Ai Hdoi
10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00550subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-01-02 00:00:00pages
45-56issue
1issn
1948-7193journal_volume
11pub_type
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