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To determine how carboxy-terminal length differences among beta-amyloid variants influence the kinetics of nucleation and amyloid fibril aggregation in Alzheimer's disease.

May 11, 1993Biochemistry

The carboxy terminus of the .beta. amyloid protein is critical for the seeding of amyloid formation: Implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

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JJJoseph T. JarrettUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa EBElizabeth P. BergerMassachusetts Institute of Technology PLPeter T. LansburyHarvard University

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Kinetic analysis demonstrates peptide carboxy-terminal length governs amyloid seeding in Alzheimer's disease models, suggesting longer beta-amyloid variants drive disease pathogenesis.

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To determine how carboxy-terminal length differences among beta-amyloid variants influence the kinetics of nucleation and amyloid fibril aggregation in Alzheimer's disease.
Conducted in vitro kinetic aggregation experiments comparing three naturally occurring beta-amyloid variants (beta 1-39, beta 1-40, beta 1-42) and four model peptides (beta 26-39, beta 26-40, beta 26-42, beta 26-43).
Evaluated nucleation-dependent fibril assembly and cross-seeding capacity by incubating kinetically soluble peptides in the presence of seed peptides containing critical extended C-terminal residues.
Amyloid fibril formation functions as a nucleation-dependent process analogous to crystallization, where C-terminal length critically governs aggregation rate (kinetic solubility) while minimally impacting thermodynamic solubility.
Kinetically soluble peptides (beta 1-39, beta 1-40, beta 26-39, beta 26-40) undergo rapid amyloid formation when seeded by C-terminally extended peptides (beta 1-42, beta 26-42, beta 26-43, beta 34-42), indicating beta 1-42 and beta 1-43 act as primary pathogenic nucleation seeds.

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Jarrett et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a163f7ded257bd69ec51971 https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00069a001

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Kinetic analysis demonstrates peptide carboxy-terminal length governs amyloid seeding in Alzheimer's disease models, suggesting longer beta-amyloid variants drive disease pathogenesis.

The carboxy terminus of the .beta. amyloid protein is critical for the seeding of amyloid formation: Implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

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