期刊
BIOCHIMIE
卷 93, 期 5, 页码 793-805出版社
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.12.012
关键词
Amylin; Amyloidogenesis; Diabetes mellitus type-2; Intrinsically disordered polypeptide; pi-pi stacking
资金
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
Type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM-2) is a conformational disease involving intrinsically disordered islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), in which a structural transition from physiological polypeptide to pathological deposits takes place. Different factors acquired or inherited, contribute to endoplasmic reticulum stress and/or impair mitochondrial function which leads to conformational changes in IAPP intermediates and ultimately produces oligomers of an anti-parallel crossed beta-pleated sheets that eventually accumulate as space-occupying lesions within the islets. Clusters of IAPP monomers form a pore which is linked to channel-like behavior in planar bilayers, indicating that these oligomeric IAPP pores could become incorporated into membranes and alter its barrier properties. Identification of nucleating residues and the residues responsible for this oligomeric tendency could improve understanding of structure function relationships as well as the molecular mechanism of folding and aggregation of IAPP contributing to the onset of DM-2. A combination of biological, chemical or physical approaches is required to be extensively pursued for the development of a successful anti-amyloidogenic agent to prevent this malady. Exploring the hypothesis of pi-stacking may be a better option to control IAPP aggregation if researchers go through the mechanism of pi-pi interaction, which provides entropy driven energy and direction for self-assembly to control amyloidogenic aggregation. (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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