The self-assembly of proteins into structured fibrillar aggregates is associated with a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, in which an important cytotoxic role is thought to be played by small soluble oligomers accumulating during the aggregation process or released by mature fibrils. As the structural characteristics of such species and their links with toxicity are still not fully defined, we have compared six examples of pre-formed misfolded protein oligomers with different beta-sheet content, as determined using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and with different toxicity, as determined by three cellular readouts of cell viability. The results show the absence of any measurable correlation between the nature of their secondary structure and their cellular toxicity, both when comparing the six types of oligomers as a group, and when comparing species in subgroups characterised by either the same size, or the same exposure of hydrophobic moieties.
The toxicity of misfolded protein oligomers is independent of their secondary structure / Vivoli Vega M, Cascella R, Chen SW, Fusco G, De Simone A, Dobson CM, Cecchi C, Chiti F.. - In: ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY. - ISSN 1554-8937. - STAMPA. - 14:(2019), pp. 1593-1600. [10.1021/acschembio.9b00324]
The toxicity of misfolded protein oligomers is independent of their secondary structure
VIVOLI VEGA, MIRELLAInvestigation
;Cascella RInvestigation
;Cecchi CSupervision
;Chiti F.
Supervision
2019
Abstract
The self-assembly of proteins into structured fibrillar aggregates is associated with a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, in which an important cytotoxic role is thought to be played by small soluble oligomers accumulating during the aggregation process or released by mature fibrils. As the structural characteristics of such species and their links with toxicity are still not fully defined, we have compared six examples of pre-formed misfolded protein oligomers with different beta-sheet content, as determined using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and with different toxicity, as determined by three cellular readouts of cell viability. The results show the absence of any measurable correlation between the nature of their secondary structure and their cellular toxicity, both when comparing the six types of oligomers as a group, and when comparing species in subgroups characterised by either the same size, or the same exposure of hydrophobic moieties.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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