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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 131, Issue 7, Pages 2472-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja807760d
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- Royal Society USA/Canada Research Fellowship
- University Research Fellowship
- Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Linacre College, Oxford
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In Alzheimer's disease, the tau protein forms intracellular amyloid fibrils in which the (306)VQIVYK(311) sequence adopts parallel beta-sheets, enabling fibril formation via cross-beta steric zippers. We investigated aggregation of the protected segment (Ac-VQIVYK-NHMe) using IR/UV hole-burning spectroscopy in the NH stretch region in a cold molecular beam combined with DFT calculations in order to characterize its structure and identify the noncovalent interactions generally responsible for aggregation and stabilization in amyloid peptides. The computed and experimental IR spectra suggest that the tau-protein fragments form extended B-strands that are combined in a B-sheet through characteristic backbone hydrogen bonds, indicating that this secondary structure is energetically most attractive and readily forms in the gas phase, without any guiding interactions from a solvent or protein environment.
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