Abstract：
:Polyalanine (polyA) is the third-most prevalent homopeptide repeat in eukaryotes, behind polyglutamine and polyasparagine. Abnormal expansion of the polyA repeat is linked to at least nine human diseases, and the disease mechanism likely involves enhanced length-dependent aggregation. Because of the simplicity of its side chain, polyA has been a favorite target of computational studies, and because of their tendency to fold into α-helix, peptides containing polyA-rich domains have been a popular experimental subject. However, experimental studies on uninterrupted polyA are very limited. We synthesized polyA peptides containing uninterrupted sequences of 7 to 25 alanines (A7 to A25) and characterized their length-dependent conformation and aggregation properties. The peptides were primarily disordered, with a modest component of α-helix that increased with increasing length. From measurements of mean distance spanned by the polyA segment, we concluded that physiological buffers are neutral solvents for shorter polyA peptides and poor solvents for longer peptides. At moderate concentration and near-physiological temperature, polyA assembled into soluble oligomers, with a sharp transition in oligomer physical properties between A19 and A25. With A19, oligomers were large, contained only a small fraction of the total peptide mass, and slowly grew into loose clusters, while A25 rapidly and completely assembled into small stable oligomers of ~7 nm radius. At high temperatures, A19 assembled into fibrils, but A25 precipitated as dense, micrometer-sized particles. A comparison of these results to those obtained with polyglutamine peptides of similar design sheds light on the role of the side chain in regulating conformation and aggregation.
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Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Bernacki JP,Murphy RMdoi
10.1021/bi201155gsubject
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2011-11-01 00:00:00pages
9200-11issue
43eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
50pub_type
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