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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 44, Pages 16248-16253Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607815103
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FBP28; folding; misfolding; protein
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- Medical Research Council [MC_U105484373] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U105484373] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105484373] Funding Source: Medline
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Human CA150, a transcriptional activator, binds to and is co-deposited with huntingtin during Huntington's disease. The second WW domain of CA150 is a three-stranded beta-sheet that folds in vitro in microseconds and forms amyloid fibers under physiological conditions. We found from exhaustive alanine scanning studies that fibrillation of this WW domain begins from its denatured conformations, and we identified a subset of residues critical for fibril formation. We used high-resolution magic-angle-spinning NMR studies on site-specific isotopically labeled fibrils to identify abundant long-range interactions between side chains. The distribution of critical residues identified by the alanine scanning and NMR spectroscopy, along with the electron microscopy data, revealed the protofilament repeat unit: a 26-residue nonnative-beta-hairpin. The structure we report has similarities to the hairpin formed by the A((1-40))(beta) protofilament, yet also contains closely packed side-chains in a steric zipper arrangement found in the cross-beta spine formed from small peptides from the Sup35 prion protein. Fibrillation of unrelated amyloidogenic sequences shows the common feature of zippered repeat units that act as templates for fiber elongation.
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