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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 98, 期 21, 页码 11857-11862出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.191250198
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A generic statistical mechanical model is presented for the self-assembly of chiral rod-like units, such as beta -sheet-forming peptides, into helical tapes, which with increasing concentration associate into twisted ribbons (double tapes), fibrils (twisted stacks of ribbons), and fibers (entwined fibrils). The finite fibril width and helicity is shown to stem from a competition between the free energy gain from attraction between ribbons and the penalty because of elastic distortion of the intrinsically twisted ribbons on incorporation into a growing fibril. Fibers are stabilized similarly. The behavior of two rationally designed 11-aa residue peptides, P-11-I and P-11-II, is illustrative of the proposed scheme. P-11-I and P-11-II are designed to adopt the beta -strand conformation and to self-assemble in one dimension to form antiparallel beta -sheet tapes, ribbons, fibrils, and fibers in well-defined solution conditions. The energetic parameters governing self-assembly have been estimated from the experimental data using the model. The 8-nm-wide fibrils consist of eight tapes, are extremely robust (scission energy approximate to 200 k(B)T), and sufficiently rigid (persistence length (I) over tilde (fibril) approximate to 20-70 mum) to form nematic solutions at peptide concentration c approximate to 0.9 mM (volume fraction approximate to0.0009 vol/vol), which convert to self-supporting nematic gels at c > 4 mM. More generally, these observations provide a new insight into the generic self-assembling properties of beta -sheet-forming peptides and shed new light on the factors governing the structures and stability of pathological amyloid fibrils in vivo. The model also provides a prescription of routes to novel macromolecules based on a variety of self-assembling c ira units, and protocols for extraction of the associated energy changes.
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