Structural Characterization of Polyglutamine Fibrils by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

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• 作者：Robert Schneider¹ ; ¹ ; Miria C. Schumacher² ; Henrik Mueller¹ ; ¹ ; Deepak Nand³ ; Volker Klaukien¹ ; Henrike Heise¹ ; Dietmar Riedel¹ ; Gerhard Wolf¹ ; Elmar Behrmann² ; Stefan Raunser² ; Ralf Seidel² ; Martin Engelhard² ; ^{martin.engelhard@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de"" rel=""nofollow} ; Marc Baldus³ ; ^{m.baldus@uu.nl"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：amyloid fibrils ; Huntington's disease ; aggregation ; polyglutamine ; solid-state NMR
• 刊名：Journal of Molecular Biology
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：9 September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：412
• 期：1
• 页码：121-136
• 全文大小：1284 K

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Protein aggregation via polyglutamine stretches occurs in a number of severe neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease. We have investigated fibrillar aggregates of polyglutamine peptides below, at, and above the toxicity limit of around 37 glutamine residues using solid-state NMR and electron microscopy. Experimental data are consistent with a dry fibril core of at least 70–80 Å in width for all constructs. Solid-state NMR dipolar correlation experiments reveal a largely β-strand character of all samples and point to tight interdigitation of hydrogen-bonded glutamine side chains from different sheets. Two approximately equally frequent populations of glutamine residues with distinct sets of chemical shifts are found, consistent with local backbone dihedral angles compensating for β-strand twist or with two distinct sets of side-chain conformations. Peptides comprising 15 glutamine residues are present as single extended β-strands. Data obtained for longer constructs are most compatible with a superpleated arrangement with individual molecules contributing β-strands to more than one sheet and an antiparallel assembly of strands within β-sheets.