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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 55, Issue 28, Pages 3937-3948Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00231
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- JSPS KAKENHI [15H04362, 15K14458]
- Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [KTIA_NAP_13-2-2014-0017]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K14458, 16H00836, 15H04362] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Ultrasonication is considered one of the most effective agitations for inducing the spontaneous formation of amyloid fibrils. When we induced the ultrasonication-dependent fibrillation of beta(2)-microglobulin and insulin monitored by amyloid-specific thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence, both proteins showed a significant decrease in ThT fluorescence after the burst-phase increase. The decrease in ThT fluorescence was accelerated when the ultrasonic power was stronger, suggesting that this decrease was caused by the partial denaturation of preformed fibrils. The possible intermediates of denaturation retained amyloid-like morphologies, secondary structures, and seeding potentials. Similar denaturation intermediates were also observed when fibrils were denatured by-guanidine hydrochloride or sodium dodecyl sulfate. The presence of these denaturation intermediates is consistent with the main-chain-dominated architecture of amyloid fibrils. Moreover, in the three types of denaturation experiments conducted, insulin fibrils were more stable than beta(2)-microglobulin fibrils, suggesting that the relative stability of various fibrils is independent of the method of denaturation.
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