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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2022

Label-Free Characterization of Amyloids and Alpha-Synuclein Polymorphs by Exploiting Their Intrinsic Fluorescence Property.

Chyi Wei Chung, Amberley D Stephens, Edward Ward, Yuqing Feng, Molly Jo Davis, Clemens F Kaminski, Gabriele S Kaminski Schierle

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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7 authors.

Chyi Wei ChungDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-1780-3486
Amberley D StephensDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-7303-6392
Edward WardDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.
Yuqing FengDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.
Molly Jo DavisDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.
Clemens F KaminskiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-5194-0962
Gabriele S Kaminski SchierleDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Phillipa Fawcett Drive, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-1843-2202

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K02292X/1Wellcome Trust 065807/Z/01/ZWellcome Trust 203249/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional in vitro aggregation assays often involve tagging with extrinsic fluorophores, which can interfere with aggregation. We propose the use of intrinsic amyloid fluorescence lifetime probed using two-photon excitation and represented by model-free phasor plots as a label-free assay to characterize the amyloid structure. Intrinsic amyloid fluorescence arises from the structured packing of β-sheets in amyloids and is independent of aromatic-based fluorescence. We show that different amyloids [i.e., α-Synuclein (αS), β-Lactoglobulin (βLG), and TasA] and different polymorphic populations of αS (induced by aggregation in salt-free and salt buffers mimicking the intra-/extracellular environments) can be differentiated by their unique fluorescence lifetimes. Moreover, we observe that disaggregation of the preformed fibrils of αS and βLG leads to increased fluorescence lifetimes, distinct from those of their fibrillar counterparts. Our assay presents a medium-throughput method for rapid classification of amyloids and their polymorphs (the latter of which recent studies have shown lead to different disease pathologies) and for testing small-molecule inhibitory compounds.

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alpha-SynucleinAmyloidAmyloidogenic ProteinsFluorescenceProtein Conformation, beta-Strandalpha-SynucleinAmyloidAmyloidogenic Proteins

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PMID35333515
PMCPMC8988127

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