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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 56, Issue 18, Pages 11317-11325Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01757
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) - Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN) [prot. 2015T778JW]
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Copper(11) binding to prion peptides does not prevent Cu redox cycling and formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the presence of reducing agents. The toxic effects of these species are exacerbated in the presence of catecholamines, indicating that dysfunction of catecholamine vesicular sequestration or recovery after synaptic release is a dangerous amplifier of Cu induced oxidative stress. Cu bound to prion peptides including the high affinity site involving histidines adjacent to the octarepeats exhibits marked catalytic activity toward dopamine and 4-methylcatechol. The resulting quinone oxidation products undergo parallel oligomerization and endogenous peptide modification yielding catechol adducts at the histidine binding ligands. These modifications add to the more common oxidation of Met and His residues produced by ROS. Derivatization of Cu-prion peptides is much faster than that undergone by Cu-beta-amyloid and Cu-alpha-synuclein complexes in the same conditions.
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