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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 37, Pages 11242-11246Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201605151
Keywords
citrate-covered gold nanoparticles; hIAPP; molecular dynamics simulations; Ramachandran plots; SUP35
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The question of how amyloid fibril formation is influenced by surfaces is crucial for a detailed understanding of the process invivo. We applied a combination of kinetic experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate how (model) surfaces influence fibril formation of the amyloid-forming sequences of prion protein SUP35 and human islet amyloid polypeptide. The kinetic data suggest that structural reorganization of the initial peptide corona around colloidal gold nanoparticles is the rate-limiting step. The molecular dynamics simulations reveal that partial physisorption to the surface results in the formation of aligned monolayers, which stimulate the formation of parallel, critical oligomers. The general mechanism implies that the competition between the underlying peptide-peptide and peptide-surface interactions must strike a balance to accelerate fibril formation.
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