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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2020

Measuring the Energy Barrier of the Structural Change That Initiates Amyloid Formation.

Blaise G Arden, Nicholas B Borotto, Brittney Burant, William Warren, Christine Akiki, Richard W Vachet

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Blaise G ArdenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Nicholas B BorottoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Brittney BurantDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
William WarrenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Christine AkikiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Richard W VachetDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4514-0210
University of Massachusetts Amherst · US

Funding

Copper-Induced Amyloidosis Studied by Mass SpectrometryR01GM075092 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI VACHET, RICHARD W · 2005 to 2020
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM075092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obtaining kinetic and thermodynamic information for protein amyloid formation can yield new insight into the mechanistic details of this biomedically important process. The kinetics of the structural change that initiates the amyloid pathway, however, has been challenging to access for any amyloid protein system. Here, using the protein β-2-microglobulin (β2m) as a model, we measure the kinetics and energy barrier associated with an initial amyloidogenic structural change. Using covalent labeling and mass spectrometry, we measure the decrease in solvent accessibility of one of β2m's Trp residues, which is buried during the initial structural change, as a way to probe the kinetics of this structural change at different temperatures and under different amyloid forming conditions. Our results provide the first-ever measure of the activation barrier for a structural change that initiates the amyloid formation pathway. The results also yield new mechanistic insight into β2m's amyloidogenic structural change, especially the role of Pro32 isomerization in this reaction.

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Thermodynamicsbeta 2-MicroglobulinHumansKineticsModels, MolecularProtein Conformationbeta 2-Microglobulin

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PMID32159946
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