Polymer?Peptide Conjugates Disassemble Amyloid ? Fibrils in a Molecular-Weight Dependent Manner [electronic resource]

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Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 500. Natural sciences and mathematics

Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017

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Amyloid aggregation and deposition are associated with many intractable human diseases. Although the inhibition of amyloid protein aggregation has been well-studied, the disaggregation and dissolution of existing amyloid fibrils is less known. Taking a fibrillar assembly of amyloid ? (A?) peptide as the model system, in this paper we report multivalent polymer?peptide conjugates (mPPCs) that disassemble preformed A? fibrils into dispersible sub-100 nm structures. Atomic force microscopy and dynamic light scattering studies show that the disassembly rate of preformed A? fibrils is controlled by the molecular weight of mPPCs. Rate equations on fibril disappearance are deduced from a simple model, which indicate that the disassembly reaction is first-order in the concentration of A? fibrils and a pseudo-first-order reaction in the concentration of peptide moieties on mPPCs, respectively. We eliminate the possibility that the disassembly occurs by the association between mPPCs and A? monomer/oligomers based on circular dichroism and Thioflavin T fluorescence assays. It is mostly likely that the mPPCs disassemble A? fibrils through a direct interaction. Finally, the mPPCs may thus offer a general macromolecular design concept that breaks down existing amyloid fibrils in a predictable fashion.
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