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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 325, Issue 1, Pages 135-148Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01175-0
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amyloid; misfolding; non-native structure; diffusion-collision; colloid
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The amyloid formation of phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) was investigated by static and dynamic light-scattering. The time-course of the scattering intensity and the hydrodynamic radius scale with initial monomer concentration in a linear fashion over a range of about 50 in concentration. This sets limits on theories for aggregation kinetics that can be used, and points towards irreversible, cascade type models. In addition, circular dichroism (CD) was used to monitor the transition between a predominantly alpha-helical spectrum to a beta-sheet enriched one. The time-course of the CD also proves to scale linearly with initial monomer concentration. Electron microscopy shows that small oligomers as well as protofibrils are present during aggregation. The found coupling between growth of intermediates and acquisition of beta-sheet structure is interpreted in terms of a generalized diffusion-collision model, where stabilization of beta-strands takes place by intermolecular interactions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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