Defining the Molecular Basis of Amyloid Inhibitors: Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide鈥揑nsulin Interactions
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- 作者：Anna C. Susa ; Chun Wu ; Summer L. Bernstein ; Nicholas F. Dupuis ; Hui Wang ; Daniel P. Raleigh ; Joan-Emma Shea ; Michael T. Bowers
- 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：September 17, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：136
- 期：37
- 页码：12912-12919
- 全文大小：486K
- ISSN：1520-5126
文摘
Human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP or Amylin) is a 37 residue hormone that is cosecreted with insulin from the pancreatic islets. The aggregation of hIAPP plays a role in the progression of type 2 diabetes and contributes to the failure of islet cell grafts. Despite considerable effort, little is known about the mode of action of IAPP amyloid inhibitors, and this has limited rational drug design. Insulin is one of the most potent inhibitors of hIAPP fibril formation, but its inhibition mechanism is not understood. In this study, the aggregation of mixtures of hIAPP with insulin, as well as with the separate A and B chains of insulin, were characterized using ion mobility spectrometry-based mass spectrometry and atomic force microscopy. Insulin and the insulin B chain target the hIAPP monomer in its compact isoform and shift the equilibrium away from its extended isoform, an aggregation-prone conformation, and thus inhibit hIAPP from forming 尾-sheets and subsequently amyloid fibrils. All-atom molecular modeling supports these conclusions.