Journal
BIOMOLECULES
Volume 9, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom9120855
Keywords
insulin; alpha-synuclein; inhibition; EGCG; amyloid aggregation
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- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant [293476]
- Manchot Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Fonden [NNF17SA0028392] Funding Source: researchfish
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Millions of people around the world suffer from amyloid-related disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Despite significant and sustained efforts, there are still no disease-modifying drugs available for the majority of amyloid-related disorders, and the overall failure rate in clinical trials is very high, even for compounds that show promising anti-amyloid activity in vitro. In this study, we demonstrate that even small changes in the chemical environment can strongly modulate the inhibitory effects of anti-amyloid compounds. Using one of the best-established amyloid inhibitory compounds, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), as an example, and two amyloid-forming proteins, insulin and Parkinson's disease-related alpha-synuclein, we shed light on the previously unexplored sensitivity to solution conditions of the action of this compound on amyloid fibril formation. In the case of insulin, we show that the classification of EGCG as an amyloid inhibitor depends on the experimental conditions select, on the method used for the evaluation of the efficacy, and on whether or not EGCG is allowed to oxidise before the experiment. For alpha-synuclein, we show that a small change in pH value, from 7 to 6, transforms EGCG from an efficient inhibitor to completely ineffective, and we were able to explain this behaviour by the increased stability of EGCG against oxidation at pH 6.
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