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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16566-1
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资金
- MINECO [SAF2015-68789]
- Fondation Recherche Medicale [AJE20151234751]
- Counseil Regional d'Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes [1R30117-00007559]
- Fundacio La Marato de TV3 [20140730]
- INCEPTION project [ANR-16-CONV-0005]
- National Institutes of Health [P41-GM104601, R01-GM123455]
- Blue Waters at National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment XSEDE [MCA06N060]
- Swedish Research Council Formas [2015-04614]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- French Proteomic Infrastructure [ANR-10-INBS-08-03]
- COST Action [BM1403]
- MINECO (FPI)
- Institut de Recherche Servier
- Swedish Research Council [2015-04614] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
Formation of amyloid-beta (A beta) oligomer pores in the membrane of neurons has been proposed to explain neurotoxicity in Alzheimers disease (AD). Here, we present the three-dimensional structure of an A beta oligomer formed in a membrane mimicking environment, namely an A beta(1-42) tetramer, which comprises a six stranded beta-sheet core. The two faces of the beta-sheet core are hydrophobic and surrounded by the membrane-mimicking environment while the edges are hydrophilic and solvent-exposed. By increasing the concentration of A beta(1-42) in the sample, A beta(1-42) octamers are also formed, made by two A beta(1-42) tetramers facing each other forming a beta-sandwich structure. Notably, A beta(1-42) tetramers and octamers inserted into lipid bilayers as well-defined pores. To establish oligomer structure-membrane activity relationships, molecular dynamics simulations were carried out. These studies revealed a mechanism of membrane disruption in which water permeation occurred through lipid-stabilized pores mediated by the hydrophilic residues located on the core beta-sheets edges of the oligomers.
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