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Structural Changes of Amyloid Beta in Hippocampus of Rats Exposed to Ozone: A Raman Spectroscopy Study.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this work was to study the effect of oxidative stress on the structural changes of the secondary peptide structure of amyloid beta 1-42 (A? 1-42), in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus of rats exposed to low doses of ozone. The animals were exposed to ozone-free air (control group) and 0.25 ppm ozone during 7, 15, 30, 60, and 90 days, respectively. The samples were studied by: (1) Raman spectroscopy to detect the global conformational changes in peptides with ?-helix and ?-sheet secondary structure, following the deconvolution profile of the amide I band; and (2) immunohistochemistry against A? 1-42. The results of the deconvolutions of the amide I band indicate that, ozone exposure causes a progressively decrease in the abundance percentage of ?-helix secondary structure. Furthermore, the ?-sheet secondary structure increases its abundance percentage. After 60 days of ozone exposure, the ?-sheet band is identified in a similar wavenumber of the A? 1-42 peptide standard. Immunohistochemistry assays show an increase of A? 1-42 immunoreactivity, coinciding with the conformational changes observed in the Raman spectroscopy of A? 1-42 at 60 and 90 days. In conclusion, oxidative stress produces changes in the folding process of amyloid beta peptide structure in the dentate gyrus, leading to its conformational change in a final ?-sheet structure. This is associated to an increase in A? 1-42 expression, similar to the one that happens in the brain of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients.

SUBMITTER: Rivas-Arancibia S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438967 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural Changes of Amyloid Beta in Hippocampus of Rats Exposed to Ozone: A Raman Spectroscopy Study.

Rivas-Arancibia Selva S Rodríguez-Martínez Erika E Badillo-Ramírez Isidro I López-González Ulises U Saniger José M JM

Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 20170522

The aim of this work was to study the effect of oxidative stress on the structural changes of the secondary peptide structure of amyloid beta 1-42 (Aβ 1-42), in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus of rats exposed to low doses of ozone. The animals were exposed to ozone-free air (control group) and 0.25 ppm ozone during 7, 15, 30, 60, and 90 days, respectively. The samples were studied by: (1) Raman spectroscopy to detect the global conformational changes in peptides with α-helix and β-sheet seconda ...[more]

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Structural Changes of Amyloid Beta in Hippocampus of Rats Exposed to Ozone: A Raman Spectroscopy Study.

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Structural Changes of Amyloid Beta in Hippocampus of Rats Exposed to Ozone: A Raman Spectroscopy Study.

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