scholarly journals The Binding of Apolipoprotein E to Oligomers and Fibrils of Amyloid-β Alters the Kinetics of Amyloid Aggregation

Biochemistry ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (40) ◽  
pp. 6323-6331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanchan Garai ◽  
Philip B. Verghese ◽  
Berevan Baban ◽  
David M. Holtzman ◽  
Carl Frieden
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ghosh ◽  
T. B. Sil ◽  
S. Dolai ◽  
K. Garai

AbstractInteraction of apolipoprotein E (apoE) isoforms with amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides is considered a critical determinant of the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. However, molecular mechanism of the apoE-Aβ interaction is poorly understood. Here we characterize the nature of the apoE-Aβ complexes and identify the region of apoE that interacts with Aβ. We have prepared three distinct fragments of apoE4, viz., the N-terminal fragment (NTF), hinge domain fragment (HDF) and C-terminal fragment (CTF) to compare its interactions with Aβ. Kinetics of aggregation of Aβ is delayed dramatically in presence of low, substoichiometric concentrations of both NTF and CTF in lipid-free, as well as, in lipidated forms. Effect of HDF is found to be small. Strong inhibition by NTF and CTF at substoichiometric concentrations indicate interactions with the ‘intermediates’ or the oligomers of Aβ. Kinetics of Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between full-length apoE4 labeled with EDANS at positions 62, 139, 210, 247, and 276 and tetramethylrhodamine (TMR)-labeled Aβ further support involvement of multiple regions of apoE in the interactions. Since the interactions involve intermediates of Aβ quantitative evaluation of the binding affinities are not feasible. Hence we employed a competitive binding assay to examine whether the N- and C-terminal domains interact cooperatively. Addition of unlabeled full-length apoE eliminates the FRET between EDANS-NTF + EDANS-CTF and TMR-Aβ almost completely but not vice versa. Furthermore, full-length apoE but not the equimolar mixture of the fragments could displace the already bound EDANS-apoE molecules from the complexes. Therefore, binding affinity of the Aβ oligomers to the intact full-length apoE is much higher than the affinity to the domains when mixed together as fragments. Thus, our results indicate that apoE-Aβ complex formation is mediated by positively cooperative multivalent binding between the multiple sites on apoE and the oligomeric forms of Aβ.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Fanjie Meng ◽  
Hoi Sung Chung
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
Valery N. Mukhin ◽  
Ivan R. Borovets ◽  
Vadim V. Sizov ◽  
Konstantin I. Pavlov ◽  
Victor M. Klimenko

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arghadwip Paul ◽  
Suman Samantray ◽  
Marco Anteghini ◽  
Mohammed Khaled ◽  
Birgit Strodel

The convergence of MD simulations is tested using varying measures for the intrinsically disordered amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). Markov state models show that 20–30 μs of MD is needed to reliably reproduce the thermodynamics and kinetics of Aβ.


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e1002782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Nasica-Labouze ◽  
Normand Mousseau

1999 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
V.V. Shuvaev ◽  
I. Laffont ◽  
G. Siest
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1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A.R. Nicoll ◽  
Gareth W. Roberts ◽  
David I. Graham

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