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ELIFE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.46112
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- Leverhulme Trust
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- H2020 European Research Council [726368]
- Parkinson's and Movement Disorder Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions [706551]
- RWTH Aachen University
- Novo Nordisk Fonden [NNF17SA0028392] Funding Source: researchfish
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [706551] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Removing or preventing the formation of alpha-synuclein aggregates is a plausible strategy against Parkinson's disease. To this end, we have engineered the beta-wrapin AS69 to bind monomeric alpha-synuclein with high affinity. In cultured cells, AS69 reduced the self-interaction of a synuclein and formation of visible alpha-synuclein aggregates. In flies, AS69 reduced alpha-synuclein aggregates and the locomotor deficit resulting from alpha-synuclein expression in neuronal cells. In biophysical experiments in vitro, AS69 highly sub-stoichiometrically inhibited both primary and autocatalytic secondary nucleation processes, even in the presence of a large excess of monomer. We present evidence that the AS69-alpha-synuclein complex, rather than the free AS69, is the inhibitory species responsible for sub-stoichiometric inhibition of secondary nucleation. These results represent a new paradigm that high affinity monomer binders can lead to strongly sub-stoichiometric inhibition of nucleation processes.
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