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ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160696
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; A beta; yeast prion; fibrillization kinetics
资金
- National Institute of Health [R01GM110448]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM110448] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Formation of amyloid fibrils underlies a wide range of human disorders, including Alzheimer's and prion diseases. The amyloid fibrils can be readily detected thanks to thioflavin T (ThT), a small molecule that gives strong fluorescence upon binding to amyloids. Using the amyloid fibrils of A beta 40 and A beta 42 involved in Alzheimer's disease, and of yeast prion protein Ure2, here we study three aspects of ThT binding to amyloids: quantification of amyloid fibrils using ThT, the optimal ThT concentration for monitoring amyloid formation and the effect of ThT on aggregation kinetics. We show that ThT fluorescence correlates linearly with amyloid concentration over ThT concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 500 mu M. At a given amyloid concentration, the plot of ThT fluorescence versus ThT concentration exhibits a bell-shaped curve. The maximal fluorescence signal depends mostly on the total ThT concentration, rather than amyloid to ThT ratio. For the three proteins investigated, the maximal fluorescence is observed at ThT concentrations of 20-50 mu M. Aggregation kinetics experiments in the presence of different ThT concentrations show that ThT has little effect on aggregation at concentrations of 20 mu M or lower. ThT at concentrations of 50 mu M or more could affect the shape of the aggregation curves, but this effect is protein-dependent and not universal.
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