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タイトル | How short peptides can disassemble ultra-stable tau fibrils extracted from Alzheimer's disease brain by a strain-relief mechanism. |
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ジャーナル・号・ページ | bioRxiv, Year 2024 |
掲載日 | 2024年3月29日 |
![]() | Ke Hou / Peng Ge / Michael R Sawaya / Joshua L Dolinsky / Yuan Yang / Yi Xiao Jiang / Liisa Lutter / David R Boyer / Xinyi Cheng / Justin Pi / Jeffrey Zhang / Jiahui Lu / Shixin Yang / Zhiheng Yu / Juli Feigon / David S Eisenberg |
PubMed 要旨 | Reducing fibrous aggregates of protein tau is a possible strategy for halting progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previously we found that the D-peptide D-TLKIVWC disassembles tau fibrils from ...Reducing fibrous aggregates of protein tau is a possible strategy for halting progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previously we found that the D-peptide D-TLKIVWC disassembles tau fibrils from AD brains (AD-tau) into benign segments with no energy source present beyond ambient thermal agitation. This disassembly by a short peptide was unexpected, given that AD-tau is sufficiently stable to withstand disassembly in boiling SDS detergent. To consider D peptide-mediated disassembly as a potential therapeutic for AD, it is essential to understand the mechanism and energy source of the disassembly action. We find assembly of D-peptides into amyloid-like fibrils is essential for tau fibril disassembly. Cryo-EM and atomic force microscopy reveal that these D-peptide fibrils have a right-handed twist and embrace tau fibrils which have a left-handed twist. In binding to the AD-tau fibril, the oppositely twisted D-peptide fibril produces a strain, which is relieved by disassembly of both fibrils. This strain-relief mechanism appears to operate in other examples of amyloid fibril disassembly and provides a new direction for the development of first-in-class therapeutics for amyloid diseases. |
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手法 | EM (らせん対称) |
解像度 | 3.1 - 3.7 Å |
構造データ | EMDB-44181, PDB-9b4i: EMDB-44182, PDB-9b4j: EMDB-44183, PDB-9b4k: EMDB-44184, PDB-9b4l: EMDB-44185, PDB-9b4m: EMDB-44186, PDB-9b4n: EMDB-44187, PDB-9b4o: |
化合物 | ![]() ChemComp-EDT: |
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![]() | UNKNOWN FUNCTION / Alzheimer's disease / Tau / fibril / cryo-EM / helix / PROTEIN FIBRIL |