期刊
FEBS LETTERS
卷 587, 期 18, 页码 2918-2923出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.07.023
关键词
Prion protein; Prion disease; Amyloid; Protein structure
资金
- National Institutes of Health [NS044158]
Recent studies revealed that elk-like S170N/N174T mutation in mouse prion protein (moPrP), which results in an increased rigidity of beta 2-alpha 2 loop, leads to a prion disease in transgenic mice. Here we characterized the effect of this mutation on biophysical properties of moPrP. Despite similar thermodynamic stabilities of wild type and mutant proteins, the latter was found to have markedly higher propensity to form amyloid fibrils. Importantly, this effect was observed even under fully denaturing conditions, indicating that the increased conversion propensity of the mutant protein is not due to loop rigidity but rather results from greater amyloidogenic potential of the amino acid sequence within the loop region of S170N/N174T moPrP. Structured digital abstract: PrP and PrP bind by atomic force microscopy (View interaction) PrP and PrP bind by fluorescence technology (View interaction) (C) 2013 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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