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ArticleAnalytical biochemistry2012

Detection of high-molecular-weight amyloid serum protein complexes using biological on-line tracer sedimentation.

Jonathan S Kingsbury, Thomas M Laue, Susan F Chase, Lawreen H Connors

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Article in Analytical biochemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jonathan S KingsburyAlan and Sandra Gerry Amyloid Research Laboratory, Amyloid Treatment and Research Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Thomas M Laue
Susan F Chase
Lawreen H Connors
University of New Hampshire · USAmyloidosis Foundation · USBoston University · US

Funding

Molecular mechanism of senile cardiac amyloidosisR01AG031804 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CONNORS, LAWREEN H. · 2009 to 2013
$1.6M
Analytical Ultracentrifugation for Complex SystemsR01GM062836 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE · PI LAUE, THOMAS M · 2001 to 2004
$879k
Molecular mechanism of senile cardiac amyloidosisR56AG031804 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CONNORS, LAWREEN H. · 2017 to 2017
$411k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG031804NIA NIH HHS R01AG031804NIA NIH HHS R56 AG031804NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM6283601NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062836
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The systemic amyloidoses are a rare but deadly class of protein folding disorders with significant unmet diagnostic and therapeutic needs. The current model for symptomatic amyloid progression includes a causative role for soluble toxic aggregates as well as for the fibrillar tissue deposits. Although much research is focused on elucidating the potential mechanism of aggregate toxicity, evidence to support their existence in vivo has been limited. We report the use of a technique we have termed biological on-line tracer sedimentation (BOLTS) to detect abnormal high-molecular-weight complexes (HMWCs) in serum samples from individuals with systemic amyloidosis due to aggregation and deposition of wild-type transthyretin (senile systemic amyloidosis, SSA) or monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain (AL amyloidosis). In this proof-of-concept study, HMWCs were observed in 31 of 77 amyloid samples (40.3%). HMWCs were not detected in any of the 17 nonamyloid control samples subjected to BOLTS analyses. These findings support the existence of potentially toxic amyloid aggregates and suggest that BOLTS may be a useful analytic and diagnostic platform in the study of the amyloidoses or other diseases where abnormal molecular complexes are formed in serum.

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UltracentrifugationAmyloidAmyloidosisBlood ProteinsFluoresceinHumansImmunoglobulin Light ChainsPrealbuminAmyloidBlood ProteinsFluoresceinImmunoglobulin Light ChainsPrealbumin

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PMID22465331
PMCPMC3354566
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