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ArticleScientific reports2015

A monomer-trimer model supports intermittent glucagon fibril growth.

Andrej Košmrlj, Pia Cordsen, Anders Kyrsting, Daniel E Otzen, Lene B Oddershede, Mogens H Jensen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. 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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6 authors.

Andrej KošmrljHarvard University, Department of Physics, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Pia CordsenCopenhagen University, Niels Bohr Institute, CMOL, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anders KyrstingCopenhagen University, Niels Bohr Institute, CMOL, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Daniel E Otzen1] Copenhagen University, Niels Bohr Institute, CMOL, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [2] Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Lene B OddershedeCopenhagen University, Niels Bohr Institute, CMOL, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mogens H JensenCopenhagen University, Niels Bohr Institute, CMOL, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigate in vitro fibrillation kinetics of the hormone peptide glucagon at various concentrations using confocal microscopy and determine the glucagon fibril persistence length 60μm. At all concentrations we observe that periods of individual fibril growth are interrupted by periods of stasis. The growth probability is large at high and low concentrations and is reduced for intermediate glucagon concentrations. To explain this behavior we propose a simple model, where fibrils come in two forms, one built entirely from glucagon monomers and one entirely from glucagon trimers. The opposite building blocks act as fibril growth blockers, and this generic model reproduces experimental behavior well.

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