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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059113
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- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
- Alzheimer's Association [IIRG-03-5312]
- CONICET [PIP2009-693]
- EPSRC [EP/F048114/1, EP/G030952/1, EP/G026203/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G030952/1, EP/G026203/1, EP/F048114/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F048114/1, EP/G030952/1, EP/G026203/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is a neutral Zn2+ peptidase that degrades short peptides based on substrate conformation, size and charge. Some of these substrates, including amyloid beta (A beta) are capable of self-assembling into cytotoxic oligomers. Based on IDE recognition mechanism and our previous report of the formation of a stable complex between IDE and intact Ab in vitro and in vivo, we analyzed the possibility of a chaperone-like function of IDE. A proteolytically inactive recombinant IDE with Glu111 replaced by Gln (IDEQ) was used. IDEQ blocked the amyloidogenic pathway of A beta yielding non-fibrillar structures as assessed by electron microscopy. Measurements of the kinetics of A beta aggregation by light scattering showed that 1) IDEQ effect was promoted by ATP independent of its hydrolysis, 2) end products of A beta-IDEQ co-incubation were incapable of seeding the assembly of monomeric A beta and 3) IDEQ was ineffective in reversing A beta aggregation. Moreover, Ab aggregates formed in the presence of IDEQ were non-neurotoxic. IDEQ had no conformational effects upon insulin (a non-amyloidogenic protein under physiological conditions) and did not disturb insulin receptor activation in cultured cells. Our results suggest that IDE has a chaperone-like activity upon amyloid-forming peptides. It remains to be explored whether other highly conserved metallopeptidases have a dual protease-chaperone function to prevent the formation of toxic peptide oligomers from bacteria to mammals.
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