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Elucidation of Primary Structure Elements Controlling Early Amyloid β-Protein Oligomerization

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Bitan, Gal, Vollers, Sabrina S., Teplow, David B.·2003·Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Assembly of monomeric amyloid beta-protein (A beta) into oligomeric structures is an important pathogenetic feature of Alzheimer's disease. The oligomer size distributions of aggregate-free, low molecular weight A beta 40 and A beta 42 can be assessed quantitatively using the technique of photo-induced cross-linking of unmodified proteins. This approach revealed that low molecular weight A beta 40 is a mixture of monomer, dimer, trimer, and tetramer, in rapid equilibrium, whereas low molecular weight A beta 42 preferentially exists as pentamer/hexamer units (paranuclei), which self-associate to form larger oligomers. Here, photo-induced cross-linking of unmodified proteins was used to evaluate systematically the oligomerization of 34 physiologically relevant A beta alloforms, including those containing familial Alzheimer's disease-linked amino acid substitutions, naturally occurring N-terminal truncations, and modifications altering the charge, the hydrophobicity, or the conformation of the peptide. The most important structural feature controlling early oligomerization was the length of the C terminus. Specifically, the side-chain of residue 41 in A beta 42 was important both for effective formation of paranuclei and for self-association of paranuclei into larger oligomers. The side-chain of residue 42, and the C-terminal carboxyl group, affected paranucleus self-association. A beta 40 oligomerization was particularly sensitive to substitutions of Glu22 or Asp23 and to truncation of the N terminus, but not to substitutions of Phe19 or Ala21. A beta 42 oligomerization, in contrast, was largely unaffected by substitutions at positions 22 or 23 or by N-terminal truncations, but was affected significantly by substitutions of Phe19 or Ala21. These results reveal how specific regions and residues control A beta oligomerization and show that these controlling elements differ between A beta 40 and A beta 42.

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Authors
Bitan, G., Vollers, S. S., & Teplow, D. B.
Venue
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-09
Volume
278
Issue
37
Pages
34882-34889
ISSN
0021-9258 (ISSN-L)
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W2164473331
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287
References
65
FWCI
9.77
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journal article
Language
en
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