Surface plasmon resonance characterization of specific binding of polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors to the expanded polyglutamine stretch

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• 作者：Yuma Okamoto ; Yoshitaka Nagai ; Nobuhiro Fujikake ; H. Akiko Popiel ; Tohru Yoshioka ; Tatsushi Toda ; Takashi Inui
• 关键词：Aggregation ; Inhibitor ; Neurodegeneration ; Peptide ; Polyglutamine ; Surface plasmon resonance
• 刊名：Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：16 January 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：378
• 期：3
• 页码：634-639
• 全文大小：955 K

文摘

Proteins with an abnormally expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch are prone to change their conformations, leading to their aggregation, and cause inherited neurodegenerative diseases called the polyQ diseases. Although screening for polyQ aggregation inhibitors has been extensively performed, many common false-positive hits have been identified so far. In this study, we employed surface plasmon resonance (SPR) to characterize the binding specificities and affinities of polyQ aggregation inhibitors to the expanded polyQ stretch. SPR successfully detected specific binding of polyQ binding peptide 1 (QBP1) to the expanded polyQ stretch (K_d = 5.7 μM), and non-specific binding of Congo red to polyQ proteins independent of their polyQ-length. Binding affinities of polyQ aggregation inhibitors to the expanded polyQ stretch were correlated with their inhibitory effects on polyQ aggregation. We therefore conclude that SPR is a useful technique for screening for specific polyQ aggregation inhibitors as promising therapeutic candidates for the currently untreatable polyQ diseases.