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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep11024
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- 100 Talents Project of CAS
- CAS-Novo Nordisk Great Wall Professorship
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91013010, 21172233, 81422047, 31150110578]
- National ST Major Project [2012ZX09301001-005]
- National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (Tianhe-1)
- Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
In present study, we set out to investigate the conformation dynamics of A beta(40) and A beta(42) through exploring the impact of intra-molecular interactions on conformation dynamics using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Our 40 microsecond-scale simulations reveal heterogeneous conformation ensembles of A beta(40) and A beta(42) that encompass similar to 35% beta-strand and similar to 60% unstructured coils. Two conformational states were identified in both alloforms: a collapsed state (CS) that resembles the structural motif of face-to-face hydrophobic clustering in amyloid fibrils, and an extended state (ES) that features the structural characteristics of anti-parallel beta-sheets in amyloid oligomers. In A beta(40), the C-terminus remains unstructured and rarely interacts with other parts, thereof the hydrophobic clustering is in loose contact and the peptide assumes ES with high probability. In contrast, the C-terminus of A beta(42) adopts a beta-strand structure that strongly interacts with segments E3-R5 and V18-A21. The active association leads to a more compact hydrophobic collapse and refrain the alloform from ES. Based on the structural characterization, we propose that the fibril and oligomer assembly pathways could respectively take off from CS and ES, and their aggregation propensity may be governed by the probability of visiting the corresponding conformational states at the equilibrium.
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