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ArticleBiophysical journal2018

A Protofilament-Protofilament Interface in the Structure of Mouse α-Synuclein Fibrils.

Guohua Lv, Ashutosh Kumar, Yun Huang, David Eliezer

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Guohua LvDepartment of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; Department of NMR-Based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. Electronic address: gul2009@med.cornell.edu.
Ashutosh KumarDepartment of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India; Department of NMR-Based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany.
Yun HuangDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
David EliezerDepartment of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York. Electronic address: dae2005@med.cornell.edu.
Cornell University · USIndian Institute of Technology Bombay · INMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · DE

Funding

Structure and Function of Alpha-SynucleinR37AG019391 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ELIEZER, DAVID · 2010 to 2019
$3.4M
Structure and Function of Alpha-SynucleinR01AG019391 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ELIEZER, DAVID · 2001 to 2009
$2.6M
Structure and Function of ComplexinR01GM117518 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ELIEZER, DAVID · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG019391NIA NIH HHS R37 AG019391NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibrillar α-synuclein (AS) is the major component of Lewy bodies, the pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR), we previously reported a structural characterization of mouse AS (mAS) fibrils and found that the secondary structure of the mAS fibrils is highly similar to a form of human AS (hAS) fibrils. Recently, a three-dimensional structure of these same hAS fibrils was determined by ssNMR and scanning transmission electron microscopy. Using medium- and long-range distance restraints obtained from ssNMR spectra, we found that the single protofilament structure of mAS fibrils is also similar to that of the hAS fibrils. However, residue-specific water accessibility of mAS fibrils probed by water polarization transfer ssNMR measurements indicates that residues S42-T44 and G84-V95 are largely protected from water even though they are located at the edge of the protofilament. Some of the corresponding resonances also exhibit peak doubling. These observations suggest that these residues may be involved in, to our knowledge, a novel protofilament-protofilament interface. We propose a structural model of mAS fibrils that incorporates this dimer interface.

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Protein Aggregatesalpha-SynucleinAnimalsMiceProtein Structure, SecondaryWateralpha-SynucleinProtein AggregatesWater

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PMID29925018
PMCPMC6026376
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