Abstract:
:Alpha-synuclein is a major component of several pathological lesions diagnostic of specific neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson's disease. This study focuses on the non-amyloid beta component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid, a key region for the aggregation and fibril formation of alpha-synuclein. Several mutations were introduced in an attempt to repress beta-strand formation and hydrophobic interaction-based aggregation. Although reducing the hydrophobicity drastically decreased fibril formation, the Val70Thr and Val70Pro mutations resulted in an unstable secondary structure thereby increasing non-structural aggregation, instead of fibril formation. Therefore, the stabilization of non-structural natively unfolded status is important to prevent alpha-synuclein fibril formation. Mixing the Val70Thr/Val71Thr double mutant, which has inherently low potential, with the fibril forming alpha-synucleins, WT and Ala53Thr, greatly reduced their fibril formation and aggregation. This double mutant has great potential for further therapeutic approaches.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Sode K,Usuzaka E,Kobayashi N,Ochiai Sdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.100subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-09-23 00:00:00pages
432-6issue
2eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(05)01587-1journal_volume
335pub_type
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