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SUBMITTER: Iljina M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037366 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iljina Marija M Tosatto Laura L Choi Minee L ML Sang Jason C JC Ye Yu Y Hughes Craig D CD Bryant Clare E CE Gandhi Sonia S Klenerman David D
Scientific reports 20160927
The protein alpha-synuclein (αS) self-assembles into toxic beta-sheet aggregates in Parkinson's disease, while it is proposed that αS forms soluble alpha-helical multimers in healthy neurons. Here, we have made αS multimers in vitro using arachidonic acid (ARA), one of the most abundant fatty acids in the brain, and characterized them by a combination of bulk experiments and single-molecule Fӧrster resonance energy transfer (sm-FRET) measurements. The data suggest that ARA-induced oligomers are ...[more]