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Exploring amyloid formation by a de novo design.


ABSTRACT: Protein deposition as amyloid fibrils underlies many debilitating human disorders. The complexity and size of disease-related polypeptides, however, often hinders a detailed rational approach to study effects that contribute to the process of amyloid formation. We report here a simplified peptide sequence successfully designed de novo to fold into a coiled-coil conformation under ambient conditions but to transform into amyloid fibrils at elevated temperatures. We have determined the crystal structure of the coiled-coil form and propose a detailed molecular model for the peptide in its fibrillar state. The relative stabilities of the two structural forms and the kinetics of their interconversion were found to be highly sensitive to small sequence changes. The results reveal the importance of specific packing interactions on the kinetics of amyloid formation and show the potential of this exceptionally favorable system for probing details of the molecular origins of amyloid disease.

SUBMITTER: Kammerer RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC384765 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Exploring amyloid formation by a de novo design.

Kammerer Richard A RA   Kostrewa Dirk D   Zurdo Jesús J   Detken Andreas A   García-Echeverría Carlos C   Green Janelle D JD   Müller Shirley A SA   Meier Beat H BH   Winkler Fritz K FK   Dobson Christopher M CM   Steinmetz Michel O MO  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040226 13


Protein deposition as amyloid fibrils underlies many debilitating human disorders. The complexity and size of disease-related polypeptides, however, often hinders a detailed rational approach to study effects that contribute to the process of amyloid formation. We report here a simplified peptide sequence successfully designed de novo to fold into a coiled-coil conformation under ambient conditions but to transform into amyloid fibrils at elevated temperatures. We have determined the crystal str  ...[more]

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