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ArticleMolecular bioSystems2014

Insights into the role of the beta-2 microglobulin D-strand in amyloid propensity revealed by mass spectrometry.

Aneika C Leney, Clare L Pashley, Charlotte A Scarff, Sheena E Radford, Alison E Ashcroft

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Article in Molecular bioSystems, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Aneika C LeneyAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. s.e.radford@leeds.ac.uk a.e.ashcroft@leeds.ac.uk.
Clare L Pashley
Charlotte A Scarff
Sheena E Radford
Alison E Ashcroft
Faculty (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Leeds · GBInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/526502/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E012558/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H024875/1Wellcome Trust 092896Wellcome Trust WT092896MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vivo beta-2 microglobulin (β2m) forms amyloid fibrils that are associated with the disease dialysis-related amyloidosis. Here, electrospray ionisation-ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry has been used to compare the oligomers formed from wild-type β2m with those formed from a variant of the protein containing a single point mutation in the D strand, H51A, during in vitro fibril assembly. Using the amyloid-binding fluorescent dye, Thioflavin T, to monitor fibrillation kinetics, H51A was shown to exhibit a two-fold increase in the lag-time of fibril formation. Despite this, comparison of the oligomeric species observed during the lag-time of self-aggregation indicated that H51A had a higher population of oligomers, and formed oligomers of higher order, than wild-type β2m. The cross-sectional areas of the oligomers arising from H51A and wild-type protein were indistinguishable, although the H51A oligomers were shown to have a significantly higher kinetic stability on account of their reluctance to undergo sub-unit exchange when mixed with 15N-labelled protein. Together the data reveal a significant effect of His51, and thus that of the D-strand sequence, on amyloid formation. The results also highlight the power of mass spectrometry in probing complex biochemical mechanisms in real-time.

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Mass SpectrometryAmyloidAmyloidosisbeta 2-MicroglobulinHumansHydrogen BondingKineticsModels, MolecularMutationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsProtein MultimerizationProtein StabilityAmyloidbeta 2-Microglobulin

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PMID24336936
PMCPMC4006425
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