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:The USFDA has approved pramlintide, commercially named Symlin (sIAPP), as adjunctive therapy for type 2 diabetes (T2D). This analogue of the human amylin peptide (hIAPP) has triple proline substitutions typical of the rat isoform (rIAPP). Recently, it was proposed that pramlintide solubility and aggregation resistance might be improved by incorporating further mutations, as S20R, screened from the wild-type porcine isoform (pIAPP), which leads to the variant named sIAPP+. To better elucidate how such properties might be systematically induced in rationally designed analogues, we performed comparative assessments of rIAPP, sIAPP, and sIAPP+ using replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) with an accurate combination of force field Charmm22* and explicit aqueous solvation TIP4P/Ew. Our thermo-structural analyses show that sIAPP exhibits a thermal conversion channel of helices[Formula: see text]-sheets resembling hIAPP. This channel is depleted in rIAPP and is absent in sIAPP+. As a consequence, sIAPP+ presents an overall decrease of β-like secondary structures and an overstabilization of α-helices. Additionally, we observed in rIAPP and sIAPP+ an increase in the backbone RMSF of molecular terminals and the exposed area of key residues. These structural features of sIAPP+ suggest a nonamyloidogenic character, which is corroborated by our judicious estimate of the electrostatic component of the solvation free energy using a generalized Born model, and so it may constitute an alternative strategy to sIAPP as a peptide analogue of hIAPP. Furthermore, our findings confirm that different aggregation propensities of amylin and its analogues are synergistically modulated by long-range effects of key mutations. Graphical Abstract S20R-Pramlintide.
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J Mol Modeljournal_title
Journal of molecular modelingauthors
Alves NA,Dias LG,Frigori RBdoi
10.1007/s00894-019-4137-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-08-19 00:00:00pages
263issue
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1610-2940issn
0948-5023pii
10.1007/s00894-019-4137-xjournal_volume
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