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ArticleInternational journal of mass spectrometry2013

A tale of a tail: Structural insights into the conformational properties of the polyglutamine protein ataxin-3.

Charlotte A Scarff, Alessandro Sicorello, Ricardo J L Tomé, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Alison E Ashcroft, Sheena E Radford

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Article in International journal of mass spectrometry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Charlotte A ScarffAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Alessandro SicorelloAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Ricardo J L ToméAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK ; IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Sandra Macedo-RibeiroIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Alison E AshcroftAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Sheena E RadfordAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
University of Leeds · GBUniversidade do Porto · PT

Funding

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

Abstract

Ataxin-3 is the protein responsible for the neurodegenerative polyglutamine disease Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Full structural characterisation of ataxin-3 is required to aid in understanding the mechanism of disease. Despite extensive study, little is known about the conformational properties of the full-length protein, in either its non-expanded healthy or expanded pathogenic forms, particularly since its polyglutamine-containing region has denied structural elucidation. In this work, travelling-wave ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry and limited proteolysis have been used to compare the conformational properties of full-length non-expanded ataxin-3 (14Q) and its isolated N-terminal Josephin domain (JD). Limited proteolysis experiments have confirmed that the JD is stable, being extremely resistant to trypsin digestion, with the exception of the α2/α3 hairpin which is flexible and exposed to protease cleavage in solution. The C-terminal region of ataxin-3 which contains the glutamine-rich sequences is largely unstructured, showing little resistance to limited proteolysis. Using ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry we show that ataxin-3 (14Q) adopts a wide range of conformational states

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AmyloidAtaxin-3Electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometryIon mobility spectrometryPolyQ

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PMCPMC4375668
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