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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 116, Issue 27, Pages 7926-7930Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp2122455
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health [R01AG033719]
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The molecular mechanisms underlying structural diversity of amyloid fibrils or prion strains formed within the same primary structure is considered to be one of the most enigmatic questions in prion biology. We report here on the direct characterization of amyloid structures using a novel spectroscopic technique, hydrogen-deuterium exchange ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy. This method enables us to assess the structural differences within highly ordered cross-beta-cores of two amyloid states produced within the same amino acid sequence of full-length mammalian prion protein. We found that while both amyloid states consisted of beta-structures, their cross-beta-cores exhibited hydrogen bonding of different strengths. Moreover, Raman spectroscopy revealed that both amyloid states displayed equally narrow crystalline like bands, suggesting uniform structures of cross-beta-cores within each state. Taken together, these data suggest that highly polymorphous fibrils can display highly uniform structures of their cross-beta-core and belong to the same prion strain.
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