PMID: 8614555Nov 17, 1995Paper

Fibrillogenesis of synthetic amyloid-beta peptides is dependent on their initial secondary structure

Neuroscience Letters
C SotoB Frangione

Abstract

Synthetic peptides containing the sequence of Alzheimer's amyloid-beta peptide (A beta) spontaneously form amyloid-like fibrils in vitro, and have been extensively used to study the factors that modulate fibrillogenesis. Contradictory observations have been reported regarding the neurotoxicity of A beta and the influence of some A beta-binding proteins on in vitro A beta amyloid formation. In this study, we show that A beta 1-40 synthetic peptides obtained from different suppliers, have significantly distinct fibrillogenic properties. No differences were detected in the chemical structure or in the initial assembly state by mass spectroscopy, reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography and denaturing or non-denaturing gel electrophoresis. However, there was a direct correlation between the ability of soluble peptides to form amyloid and their percentage of beta-sheet structure, as determined by electron microscopy, fluorescence associated to thioflavine T bound to amyloid, and circular dichroism. The data suggest that the determinant factor of A beta fibrillogenesis is the secondary structure adopted by the peptide in its soluble state.

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