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Structure-Based Design of Non-Natural Amino Acid Inhibitors of Amyloid Fibrillation
Sievers, Stuart A. Karanicolas, John Chang, Howard W. Zhao, Anni Jiang, Lin Zirafi, Onofrio Stevens, Jason T. Münch, Jan Baker, David Eisenberg, David
Sievers, Stuart A.
Karanicolas, John
Chang, Howard W.
Zhao, Anni
Jiang, Lin
Zirafi, Onofrio
Stevens, Jason T.
Münch, Jan
Baker, David
Eisenberg, David
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Many globular and natively disordered proteins can convert into amyloid fibers. These fibers are associated with numerous pathologies1 as well as with normal cellular functions2,3, and frequently form during protein denaturation4,5. Inhibitors of pathological amyloid fibers could serve as leads for therapeutics, provided the inhibitors were specific enough to avoid interfering with normal processes. Here we show that computer-aided, structure-based design can yield highly specific peptide inhibitors of amyloid formation. Using known atomic structures of segments of amyloid fibers as templates, we have designed and characterized an all D-amino acid inhibitor of fibrillation of the tau protein found in Alzheimer’s disease, and a non-natural L-amino acid inhibitor of an amyloid fiber that enhances sexual transmission of HIV. Our results indicate that peptides from structure-based designs can disrupt the fibrillation of full-length proteins, including those like tau that lack fully ordered native structures.
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2011-06-07
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Sievers et al. "Structure-Based Design of Non-Natural Amino Acid Inhibitors of Amyloid Fibrillation." Nature. Jul 7, 2011; 475(7354): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10154