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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 109, Issue 23, Pages 8913-8918Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207022109
Keywords
amyloid; charge relay; lipid binding; structure propagation
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [8 P41 GM103422-35]
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Apolipoproteins E3 and E4, proteins with a molecular mass of 34.15 kDa, differ by a single amino acid change. ApoE4 contains an arginine residue at position 112, whereas apoE3 has a cysteine at this position. ApoE4 is the major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, whereas apoE3, the common isoform, is neutral with respect to this disease. Here, using literature data from both hydrogen-deuterium exchange and site-directed mutations, we suggest structural differences between these two isoforms that are distant from the site of the arginine-to-cysteine change. These structural differences involve sequences from both the N- and C-terminal domains, sequentially far apart but structurally close. In addition, these regions are close to regions that bind lipid and to a region involved in association of apoE monomers to higher molecular weight forms. We discuss the possibility that these regions could be targeted preferentially to affect the function of apoE4 relative to apoE3.
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