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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 5, 期 11, 页码 1864-1870出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz5001775
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The deposition of aggregates of human islet amyloid peptide (hIAPP) has been correlated with the death of insulin-producing beta (beta) cells in type II diabetes mellitus. The actual molecular mechanism of cell death remains unknown; however, it has been postulated that the process of aggregation and amyloid fibril growth from monomeric hIAPP is closely involved. Intermediate IAPP aggregates are highly toxic to islet cells, but lack of structural knowledge of these oligomers and complications in applying biophysical techniques to their study have been the main obstacles in designing structure-based therapeutics. Furthermore, the involvement of metal ions (Cu2+ and Zn2+) associated with hIAPP has demonstrated an effect on the aggregation pathway. In the absence of well-defined targets, research attempting to attenuate amyloid-linked toxicity has been substantially slowed. Therefore, obtaining high-resolution structural insights on these intermediates through NMR techniques can provide information on preventing IAPP aggregation. In this Perspective, a review of avenues to obtain fundamental new insights into the aggregation pathway of IAPP and other amyloidogenic proteins proteins through NMR and other techniques is presented.
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