Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22126609
Keywords
amyloid aggregation; protein glycation; AGEs; protein misfolding; amyloidosis
Funding
- Italian Ministry of University and Research, Program Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini
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The study provides an overview of the molecular effects induced by glycation on the amyloid aggregation process of protein models associated with misfolding diseases. Glycation plays a key role in protein folding, kinetics of amyloid formation, and amyloid cytotoxicity.
Protein function and flexibility is directly related to the native distribution of its structural elements and any alteration in protein architecture leads to several abnormalities and accumulation of misfolded proteins. This phenomenon is associated with a range of increasingly common human disorders, including Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases, type II diabetes, and a number of systemic amyloidosis characterized by the accumulation of amyloid aggregates both in the extracellular space of tissues and as intracellular deposits. Post-translational modifications are known to have an active role in the in vivo amyloid aggregation as able to affect protein structure and dynamics. Among them, a key role seems to be played by non-enzymatic glycation, the most unwanted irreversible modification of the protein structure, which strongly affects long-living proteins throughout the body. This study provided an overview of the molecular effects induced by glycation on the amyloid aggregation process of several protein models associated with misfolding diseases. In particular, we analyzed the role of glycation on protein folding, kinetics of amyloid formation, and amyloid cytotoxicity in order to shed light on the role of this post-translational modification in the in vivo amyloid aggregation process.
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