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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 44, Issue 21, Pages 7818-7829Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi047846q
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alpha-Synuclein (alpha-syn) is a major protein component of the neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders termed synucleinopathies. Neither the mechanism of alpha-syn fibrillization nor the degradative process for alpha-syn has been elucidated. Previously, we showed that wild-type, mutated, and fibrillar alpha-syn proteins are substrates of calpain I in vitro. In this study, we demonstrate that calpain-mediated cleavage near and within the middle region of soluble alpha-syn with/without tyrosine nitration and oxidation generates fragments that are unable to self-fibrillize. More importantly, these fragments prevent full-length alpha-syn from fibrillizing. Calpain-mediated cleavage of alpha-syn fibrils composed of wild-type or nitrated alpha-syn generate C-terminally truncated fragments that retain their fibrillar structure and induce soluble full-length alpha-syn to co-assemble. Therefore, calpain-cleaved soluble alpha-syn inhibits fibrillization, whereas calpain-cleaved fibrillar a-syn promotes further co-assembly. These results provide insight into possible disease mechanisms underlying synucleinopathies since the formation of alpha-syn fibrils could be causally linked to the onset/progression of these disorders.
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