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Näsström, Thomas; Dahlberg, Tobias; Malyshev, Dmitry; Ådén, Jörgen; Andersson, Per Ola; Andersson, Magnus; Karlsson, Björn C G Synthetic NAC 71-82 Peptides Designed to Produce Fibrils with Different Protofilament Interface Contacts Journal Article In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 22, no. 17, pp. 9334, 2021, ISSN: 1422-0067. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: $alpha$ -synuclein, fibril polymorphs, nac 71-82 peptides@article{Nasstrom2021,
title = {Synthetic NAC 71-82 Peptides Designed to Produce Fibrils with Different Protofilament Interface Contacts},
author = {Thomas Näsström and Tobias Dahlberg and Dmitry Malyshev and Jörgen Ådén and Per Ola Andersson and Magnus Andersson and Björn C G Karlsson},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/17/9334},
doi = {10.3390/ijms22179334},
issn = {1422-0067},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-08-01},
journal = {International Journal of Molecular Sciences},
volume = {22},
number = {17},
pages = {9334},
abstract = {Alpha-synucleinopathies are featured by fibrillar inclusions in brain cells. Although $alpha$-synuclein fibrils display structural diversity, the origin of this diversity is not fully understood. We used molecular dynamics simulations to design synthetic peptides, based on the NAC 71-82 amino acid fragment of $alpha$-synuclein, that govern protofilament contacts and generation of twisted fibrillar polymorphs. Four peptides with structures based on either single or double fragments and capped or non-capped ends were selected for further analysis. We determined the fibrillar yield and the structures from these peptides found in the solution after fibrillisation using protein concentration determination assay and circular dichroism spectroscopy. In addition, we characterised secondary structures formed by individual fibrillar complexes using laser-tweezers Raman spectroscopy. Results suggest less mature fibrils, based on the lower relative $beta$-sheet content for double- than single-fragment peptide fibrils. We confirmed this structural difference by TEM analysis which revealed, in addition to short protofibrils, more elongated, twisted and rod-like fibril structures in non-capped and capped double-fragment peptide systems, respectively. Finally, time-correlated single-photon counting demonstrated a difference in the Thioflavin T fluorescence lifetime profiles upon fibril binding. It could be proposed that this difference originated from morphological differences in the fibril samples. Altogether, these results highlight the potential of using peptide models for the generation of fibrils that share morphological features relevant for disease, e.g., twisted and rod-like polymorphs.},
keywords = {$alpha$ -synuclein, fibril polymorphs, nac 71-82 peptides},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}