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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue 17, Pages 3043-3048Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz501570m
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- Italian grants FIRB Future in research [RBFR12SIPT]
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alpha-Casein is known to inhibit the aggregation of several proteins, including the amyloid beta-peptide, by mechanisms that are not yet completely clear. We studied its effects on insulin, a system extensively used to investigate the properties of amyloids, many of which are common to all proteins and peptides. In particular, as for other proteins, insulin aggregation is affected by secondary nucleation pathways. We found that alpha-casein strongly delays insulin amyloid formation, even at extremely low doses, when the aggregation process is characterized by secondary nucleation. At difference, it has a vanishing inhibitory effect on the initial oligomer formation, which is observed at high concentration and does not involve any secondary nucleation pathway. These results indicate that an efficient inhibition of amyloid formation can be achieved by chaperone-like systems, by sequestering the early aggregates, before they can trigger the exponential proliferation brought about by secondary nucleation mechanisms.
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