Evidence for a partially structured state of the amylin monomer.

Biophysical Journal
Sara M VaianaJames Hofrichter

Abstract

Islet amyloid polypeptide (amylin) is the main component in amyloid deposits formed in type II diabetes. We used triplet quenching to probe the dynamics of contact formation between the N-terminal disulfide loop and a C-terminal tryptophan in monomeric amylins from human and rat. Quenching rates measured in the absence of denaturant are four times larger than those in 6 M guanidinium chloride, indicating a decrease in the average end-to-end distance (collapse) at low denaturant concentrations. We were surprised to find an even greater (sevenfold) increase in quenching rates on removal of denaturant for a hydrophilic control peptide containing the disulfide loop compared to the same peptide without the loop (twofold change). These results suggest that collapse is driven by backbone-backbone and backbone-side chain interactions involving the disulfide loop portion of the chain rather than by the formation of side-chain hydrophobic contacts. Molecular dynamics simulations of the control peptide show that the collapse results from hydrogen-bonding interactions between the central residues of the chain and the disulfide loop. The quenching experiments also indicate that the monomer of the human, amyloidogenic form of amylin is more ...Continue Reading

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