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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2016

A Population Shift between Sparsely Populated Folding Intermediates Determines Amyloidogenicity.

Theodoros K Karamanos, Clare L Pashley, Arnout P Kalverda, Gary S Thompson, Maxim Mayzel, Vladislav Y Orekhov, Sheena E Radford

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Impact of membrane curvature on amyloid aggregation.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes · 2018
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  19. Small molecule probes of protein aggregation.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Theodoros K KaramanosAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Clare L PashleyAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Arnout P KalverdaAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Gary S ThompsonAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Maxim MayzelThe Swedish NMR Centre, University of Gothenburg , Box 465, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
Vladislav Y OrekhovThe Swedish NMR Centre, University of Gothenburg , Box 465, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
Sheena E RadfordAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.

Funding

Cancer Research UKEuropean Research Council 322408Medical Research Council MC_U117533887Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 089311/Z/09/ZWellcome Trust 094232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The balance between protein folding and misfolding is a crucial determinant of amyloid assembly. Transient intermediates that are sparsely populated during protein folding have been identified as key players in amyloid aggregation. However, due to their ephemeral nature, structural characterization of these species remains challenging. Here, using the power of nonuniformly sampled NMR methods we investigate the folding pathway of amyloidogenic and nonamyloidogenic variants of β2-microglobulin (β2m) in atomic detail. Despite folding via common intermediate states, we show that the decreased population of the aggregation-prone ITrans state and population of a less stable, more dynamic species ablate amyloid formation by increasing the energy barrier for amyloid assembly. The results show that subtle changes in conformational dynamics can have a dramatic effect in determining whether a protein is amyloidogenic, without perturbation of the mechanism of protein folding.

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Protein FoldingAmyloidAmyloidogenic Proteinsbeta 2-MicroglobulinEscherichia coliHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyModels, MolecularNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularPlasmidsProtein ConformationThermodynamicsAmyloidAmyloidogenic Proteinsbeta 2-Microglobulin

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PMID27117876
PMCPMC4922733

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