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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34636-4
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- iNEXT Discovery (Horizon 2020, European Union) [12151, 17044]
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This study reports the cryo-EM structures of AA amyloid fibrils from two patients with vascular AA amyloidosis, indicating that different disease variants in systemic amyloidosis are associated with different fibril structures.
This study reports the cryo-EM structures of AA amyloid fibrils from two patients with vascular AA amyloidosis. The findings imply that different disease variants in systemic amyloidosis are associated with different fibril structures. Systemic AA amyloidosis is a debilitating protein misfolding disease in humans and animals. In humans, it occurs in two variants that are called 'vascular' and 'glomerular', depending on the main amyloid deposition site in the kidneys. Using cryo electron microscopy, we here show the amyloid fibril structure underlying the vascular disease variant. Fibrils purified from the tissue of such patients are mainly left-hand twisted and contain two non-equal stacks of fibril proteins. They contrast in these properties to the fibrils from the glomerular disease variant which are right-hand twisted and consist of two structurally equal stacks of fibril proteins. Our data demonstrate that the different disease variants in systemic AA amyloidosis are associated with different fibril morphologies.
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