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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2021

Pulsed Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Reveals Altered Structures and Mechanisms in the Aggregation of Familial Alzheimer's Disease Mutants.

Eva Illes-Toth, Georg Meisl, Don L Rempel, Tuomas P J Knowles, Michael L Gross

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eva Illes-TothWashington University in St. Louis, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.
Georg MeislUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6562-7715
Don L RempelWashington University in St. Louis, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9791-0999
Tuomas P J KnowlesUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7879-0140
Michael L GrossWashington University in St. Louis, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1159-4636
Washington University in St. Louis · USUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

TrainingP41GM103422 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI YARASHESKI, KEVIN E · 2012 to 2019
$12.0M
A Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource: Ongoing Driving Biomedical ProjectsR24GM136766 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, MICHAEL L · 2020 to 2022
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103422NIGMS NIH HHS R24 GM136766
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations of the Amyloid Precursor Protein, from which the amyloid β peptide Aβ42 is cleaved, are associated with familial Alzheimer's disease. The disease-relevant familial mutations include the Arctic (E22G), Iowa (D23N), Italian (E22K), Dutch (E22Q), Japanese (D7N), English (D6R), and Flemish (A21G) variants. A detailed mechanistic understanding of the aggregation behavior of the mutant peptides at the residue level is, however, still lacking. We report here a study of the aggregation kinetics of these mutants in vitro by pulsed hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) to obtain a temporally and sequence resolved picture of their self-assembly. For all variants, HDX occurs to give a bimodal distribution representing two soluble classes of aggregates, one protected and one solvent-exposed. There is no evidence of other classes of structural intermediates within the detection limits of the HDX approach. The fractional changes in the bimodal exchange profiles for several regions of Aβ42 reveal that the central and C-terminal peptides gain protection upon fibril formation, whereas the N-terminal regions remain largely solvent-accessible. For these mutants, all peptide fragments follow the same kinetics, acquiring solvent protection at the same time, further supporting that there are no significant populations of intermediate species under our experimental conditions. The results demonstrate the potential of pulsed HDX-MS for resolving the region-specific aggregation behavior of Aβ42 isoforms in solution where X-ray crystallography and solid-state NMR (ssNMR) are challenged.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesDeuteriumDeuterium Exchange MeasurementHumansHydrogenPeptide FragmentsAmyloid beta-PeptidesDeuteriumHydrogenPeptide Fragmentsaggregationamyloid structureAβ42 peptidedisease-associated mutantskineticspulsed hydrogen−deuterium exchange

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