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The Amyloid Formation Mechanism in Human IAPP: Dimers Have β-Strand Monomer−Monomer Interfaces

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Dupuis, Nicholas F., Wu, Chun, Shea, Joan-Emma, Bowers, Michael T.·2011·Journal of the American Chemical Society

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Early oligomerization of human IAPP (hIAPP) is responsible for β-cell death in the pancreas and is increasingly considered a primary pathological process linked to Type II Diabetes (T2D). Yet, the assembly mechanism remains poorly understood, largely due to the inability of conventional techniques to probe distributions or detailed structures of early oligomeric species. Here, we describe the first experimental data on the isolated and unmodified dimers of human (hIAPP) and nonamyloidogenic rat IAPP (rIAPP). The experiments reveal that the human IAPP dimers are more extended than those formed by rat IAPP and likely descend from extended monomers. Independent all-atom molecular dynamics simulations show that rIAPP forms compact helix and coil rich dimers, whereas hIAPP forms β-strand rich dimers that are generally more extended. Also, the simulations reveal that the monomer-monomer interfaces of the hIAPP dimers are dominated by β-strands and that β-strands can recruit coil or helix structured regions during the dimerization process. Our β-rich interface contrasts with an N-terminal helix-to-helix interface proposed in the literature but is consistent with existing experimental data on the self-interaction pattern of hIAPP, mutation effects, and inhibition effects of the N-methylation in the mutation region.

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  • The present work used the AMBER ff96 force field in combination with the OBC2 implicit solvent model, which has been successfully applied to study the association of proteins and peptides by others.

    “The present work used the AMBER ff96 force field in combination with the OBC2 implicit solvent model, which has been successfully applied to study the association of proteins and peptides by others.123−125”

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Authors
Dupuis, N. F., Wu, C., Shea, J.-E., & Bowers, M. T.
Affiliations
University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
Corresponding author
Bowers, Michael T.
Venue
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Published
2011-04-25
Volume
133
Issue
19
Pages
7240-7243
ISSN
  • 0002-7863 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-5126
OpenAlex
W2061876586
Cited by
216
References
31
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FWCI
12.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (P01AG027818)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM078114, R01GM078114)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
Keywords
human islet amyloid polypeptide, type 2 diabetes, beta-cell death, all-atom molecular dynamics, N-methylation, protein self-interaction
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Models, Molecular, Surface Properties, Protein Structure, Secondary, Rats, Islet Amyloid Polypeptide

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