期刊
ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
卷 9, 期 12, 页码 3060-3071出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00250
关键词
tau; amyloid oligomers; single-molecule FRET; kinetic modeling; aggregation mechanism
资金
- Royal Society
- Danish Research Council
- Lundbeck Foundation [R165-2013-15269]
- Schiff Foundation
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Wellcome Trust
- Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases
- BBSRC
- Frances and Augustus Newman foundation
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) through the ERC [337969]
- COFUND programme [609033]
- ERC [669237]
- BBSRC [BB/J002119/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [UKDRI-2003] Funding Source: UKRI
- European Research Council (ERC) [669237] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The molecular mechanism of protein aggregation is of both fundamental and clinical importance as amyloid aggregates are linked to a number of neurodegenerative disorders. Such protein aggregates include macroscopic insoluble fibrils as well as small soluble oligomeric species. Time-dependent resolution of these species is prerequisite for a detailed quantitative understanding of protein aggregation; this remains challenging due to the lack of methods for detecting and characterizing transient and heterogeneous protein oligomers. Here we have used single molecule fluorescence techniques combined with mechanistic modeling to study the heparin-induced aggregation of the repeat region of tau, which forms the core region of neurofibrillary tangles found in Alzheimer's disease. We distinguish several subpopulations of oligomers with different stability and follow their evolution during aggregation reactions as a function of temperature and concentration. Employment of techniques from chemical kinetics reveals that the two largest populations are structurally distinct from fibrils and are both kinetically and thermodynamically unstable. The first population is in rapid exchange with monomers and held together by electrostatic interactions; the second is kinetically more stable, dominates at later times, and is probably off-pathway to fibril formation. These more stable oligomers may contribute to other oligomer induced effects in the cellular environment, for example, by overloading protein quality control systems. We also show that the shortest growing filaments remain suspended in aqueous buffer and thus comprise a third, smaller population of transient oligomers with cross-beta structure. Overall our data show that a diverse population of oligomers of different structures and half-lives are formed during the aggregation reaction with the great majority of oligomers formed not going on to form fibrils.
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