Generic Mechanism of Emergence of Amyloid Protofilaments from Disordered Oligomeric aggregates

Details Generic Mechanism of Emergence of Amyloid Protofilaments from Disordered Oligomeric aggregates Generic Mechanism of Emergence of Amyloid Protofilaments from Disordered Oligomeric aggregates

2009-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1851v2

PLoS Comput Biol 4(11): e1000222 (2008)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

14 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000222

The presence of oligomeric aggregates, which is often observed during the process of amyloid formation, has recently attracted much attention since it has been associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. We provide a description of a sequence-indepedent mechanism by which polypeptide chains aggregate by forming metastable oligomeric intermediate states prior to converting into fibrillar structures. Our results illustrate how the formation of ordered arrays of hydrogen bonds drives the formation of beta-sheets within the disordered oligomeric aggregates that form early under the effect of hydrophobic forces. Initially individual beta-sheets form with random orientations, which subsequently tend to align into protofilaments as their lengths increases. Our results suggest that amyloid aggregation represents an example of the Ostwald step rule of first order phase transitions by showing that ordered cross-beta structures emerge preferentially from disordered compact dynamical intermediate assemblies.

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