Abstract：
:In type 2 diabetics, the hormone amylin misfolds into amyloid plaques implicated in the destruction of the pancreatic β-cells that make insulin and amylin. The aggregative misfolding of amylin is pH-dependent, and exposure of the hormone to acidic and basic environments could be physiologically important. Amylin has two ionizable residues between pH 3 and 9: the α-amino group and His18. Our approach to measuring the pKa values for these sites has been to look at the pH dependence of fibrillization in amylin variants that have only one of the two groups. The α-amino group at the unstructured N-terminus of amylin has a pKa near 8.0, similar to the value in random coil models. By contrast, His18, which is involved in the intermolecular β-sheet structure of the fibrils, has a pKa that is lowered to 5.0 in the fibrils compared to the random coil value of 6.5. The lowered pKa of His18 is due to the hydrophobic environment of the residue, and electrostatic repulsion between positively charged His18 residues on neighboring amylin molecules in the fibril. His18 acts as an electrostatic switch inhibiting fibrillization in its charged state. The presence of a charged side chain at position 18 also affects fibril morphology and lowers amylin cytotoxicity toward a MIN6 mouse model of pancreatic β-cells. In addition to the two expected pKa values, we detected an apparent pKa of ~4.0 for the amylin-derived peptide NAc-SNNFGAILSS-NH2, which has no titratable groups. This pKa is due to the pH-induced ionization of the dye thioflavin T. By using alternative methods to follow fibrillization such as the dye Nile Red or turbidimetry, we were able to distinguish between the titration of the dye and groups on the peptide. Large differences in reaction kinetics were observed between the different methods at acidic pH, because of charges on the ThT dye, which hinder fibril formation much like the charges on the protein.
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Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Jha S,Snell JM,Sheftic SR,Patil SM,Daniels SB,Kolling FW,Alexandrescu ATdoi
10.1021/bi401164ksubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-21 00:00:00pages
300-10issue
2eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
53pub_type
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