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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS
Volume 1753, Issue 1, Pages 92-99Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.09.002
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amyloid; hemodialysis; beta-2 microglobulin; protein folding
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK54899] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [1F31NS046937] Funding Source: Medline
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It is generally accepted that amyloid formation requires partial, but not complete unfolding of a polypeptide chain. Amyloid formation by beta-2 microglobulin (beta 2m), however, readily occurs under strongly native conditions provided that there is exposure to specific transition metal cations. In this review, we discuss transition metal catalyzed conformational changes in several amyloidogenic systems including prion protein, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. For some systems, including beta 2m from dialysis related amyloidosis (DRA), catalysis overcomes an entropic barrier to protein aggregation. Recent data suggest that beta 2m samples conformations that are under thermodynamic control, resulting in local or partial unfolding under native conditions. Furthermore, exposure to transition metal cations stabilizes these partially unfolded states and promotes the formation of small oligomers, whose structures are simultaneously near-native and amyloid-like. By serving as a tether, Cu2+ enables the encounter of amyloidogenic conformations to occur on time scales which are significantly more rapid than would occur between freely diffusing monomeric protein. Once amyloid formation occurs, the requirement for Cu2+ is lost. We assert that beta 2m amyloid fiber formation at neutral pH may be facilitated by rearrangements catalyzed by the transient and pair wise tethering of beta 2m at the blood/dialysate interface present during therapeutic hemodialysis. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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