Amyloid or similar protein aggregates are the hallmarks of many disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's diseases and amyloidoses. The inhibition of the formation of these aberrant species by small molecules is a promising strategy for disease treatment. However, at present, all such diseases lack an appropriate therapeutic approach based on small molecules. In this work we have evaluated five bis(indolyl)phenylmethane derivatives to reduce amyloid fibril formation by hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) and its associated cytotoxicity. HEWL is a widely used model system to study the fundamentals of amyloid fibril formation and is heterologous to human lysozyme, which forms amyloid fibrils in a familial form of systemic amyloidosis. HEWL aggregation was tested in the presence and absence of the five compounds, under conditions in which the protein is partially unfolded. To this purpose, various techniques were used, including Congo red and Thioflavin T binding assays, atomic force microscopy, Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy and cell-based cytotoxicity assays, such as the MTT reduction test and the trypan blue test. It was found that all compounds inhibited the formation of amyloid fibrils and their associated toxicity, diverging the aggregation process towards the formation of large, morphologically amorphous, unstructured, nontoxic aggregates, thus resembling class I molecules defined previously. In addition, the five compounds also appeared to disaggregate pre-formed fibrils of HEWL, which categorizes them into class IA. The half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) was found to be ca 12.3 ± 1.0 μM for the forefather compound.

Bis(indolyl)phenylmethane derivatives are effective small molecules for inhibition of amyloid fibril formation by hen lysozyme / Ramshini, Hassan; Mannini, Benedetta; Khodayari, Kaveh; Ebrahim-Habibi, Azadeh; Moghaddasi, Azam Sadat; Tayebee, Reza; Chiti, Fabrizio*. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0223-5234. - STAMPA. - 124:(2016), pp. 361-371. [10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.08.056]

Bis(indolyl)phenylmethane derivatives are effective small molecules for inhibition of amyloid fibril formation by hen lysozyme

Mannini, Benedetta;Chiti, Fabrizio
2016

Abstract

Amyloid or similar protein aggregates are the hallmarks of many disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's diseases and amyloidoses. The inhibition of the formation of these aberrant species by small molecules is a promising strategy for disease treatment. However, at present, all such diseases lack an appropriate therapeutic approach based on small molecules. In this work we have evaluated five bis(indolyl)phenylmethane derivatives to reduce amyloid fibril formation by hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) and its associated cytotoxicity. HEWL is a widely used model system to study the fundamentals of amyloid fibril formation and is heterologous to human lysozyme, which forms amyloid fibrils in a familial form of systemic amyloidosis. HEWL aggregation was tested in the presence and absence of the five compounds, under conditions in which the protein is partially unfolded. To this purpose, various techniques were used, including Congo red and Thioflavin T binding assays, atomic force microscopy, Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy and cell-based cytotoxicity assays, such as the MTT reduction test and the trypan blue test. It was found that all compounds inhibited the formation of amyloid fibrils and their associated toxicity, diverging the aggregation process towards the formation of large, morphologically amorphous, unstructured, nontoxic aggregates, thus resembling class I molecules defined previously. In addition, the five compounds also appeared to disaggregate pre-formed fibrils of HEWL, which categorizes them into class IA. The half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) was found to be ca 12.3 ± 1.0 μM for the forefather compound.
2016
124
361
371
Ramshini, Hassan; Mannini, Benedetta; Khodayari, Kaveh; Ebrahim-Habibi, Azadeh; Moghaddasi, Azam Sadat; Tayebee, Reza; Chiti, Fabrizio*
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