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NATURE
卷 530, 期 7588, 页码 45-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature16531
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- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC)
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF) [1114/12]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SE1794/1-1]
- European Research Council (ERC) [647474]
- European Research Council (ERC) [647474] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Intracellular aggregation of the human amyloid protein alpha-synuclein is causally linked to Parkinson's disease. While the isolated protein is intrinsically disordered, its native structure in mammalian cells is not known. Here we use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to derive atomic-resolution insights into the structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein in different mammalian cell types. We show that the disordered nature of monomeric alpha-synuclein is stably preserved in non-neuronal and neuronal cells. Under physiological cell conditions, alpha-synuclein is amino-terminally acetylated and adopts conformations that are more compact than when in buffer, with residues of the aggregation-prone non-amyloid-beta component (NAC) region shielded from exposure to the cytoplasm, which presumably counteracts spontaneous aggregation. These results establish that different types of crowded intracellular environments do not inherently promote alpha-synuclein oligomerization and, more generally, that intrinsic structural disorder is sustainable in mammalian cells.
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