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ArticleFEBS letters2015

A multi-pathway perspective on protein aggregation: implications for control of the rate and extent of amyloid formation.

Damien Hall, József Kardos, Herman Edskes, John A Carver, Yuji Goto

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Article in FEBS letters, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Damien HallResearch School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia; Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-1-Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Electronic address: damien.hall@anu.edu.au.
József KardosMTA-ELTE NAP B Neuroimmunology Research Group and Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest H-1117, Hungary.
Herman EdskesLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Bld 8, MD 20892-0830, USA.
John A CarverResearch School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.
Yuji GotoInstitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-1-Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 DK999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nucleation-growth model has been used extensively for characterizing in vitro amyloid fibril formation kinetics and for simulating the relationship between amyloid and disease. In the majority of studies amyloid has been considered as the dominant, or sole, aggregation end product, with the presence of other competing non-amyloid aggregation processes, for example amorphous aggregate formation, being largely ignored. Here, we examine possible regulatory effects that off-pathway processes might exert on the rate and extent of amyloid formation - in particular their potential for providing false positives and negatives in the evaluation of anti-amyloidogenic agents. Furthermore, we investigate how such competing reactions might influence the standard interpretation of amyloid aggregation as a two-state system. We conclude by discussing our findings in terms of the general concepts of supersaturation and system metastability - providing some mechanistic insight as to how these empirical phenomena may manifest themselves in the amyloid arena.

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Amyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAmyloidosisComputer SimulationHumansKineticsModels, BiologicalPlaque, AmyloidProtein Aggregation, PathologicalAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAmorphous aggregationAmyloidAnti-amyloid ligand screenCompetitionKinetic modelRegulation

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PMID25647034
PMCPMC4349420

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