The role of histidines in amyloid β fibril assembly

K Brännström, T Islam, L Sandblad, A Olofsson - FEBS letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Low pH has a strong stabilising effect on the fibrillar assembly of amyloid β, which is
associated with Alzheimer's disease. The stabilising effect is already pronounced at pH 6.0 …

Mapping Aβ amyloid fibril secondary structure using scanning proline mutagenesis

AD Williams, E Portelius, I Kheterpal, J Guo… - Journal of molecular …, 2004 - Elsevier
Although the amyloid fibrils formed from the Alzheimer's disease amyloid peptide Aβ are rich
in cross-β sheet, the peptide likely also exhibits turn and unstructured regions when it …

Experimental constraints on quaternary structure in Alzheimer's β-amyloid fibrils

AT Petkova, WM Yau, R Tycko - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
We describe solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on fibrils formed
by the 40-residue β-amyloid peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease (Aβ1-40) that …

Conformation and fibrillogenesis of Alzheimer Aβ peptides with selected substitution of charged residues

PE Fraser, DR McLachlan, WK Surewicz… - Journal of molecular …, 1994 - Elsevier
A key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the formation and accumulation of
amyloid fibers within the neurophil as senile plaques and in the walls of cerebral and …

Unraveling the secrets of Alzheimer's β-amyloid fibrils

LK Thompson - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Proteins adopt an amazing array of sequence-dependent struc-tures that enable them to
perform the many chemical functions critical to life. Over the past decade, however, it has …

Probing the amyloid-β (1–40) fibril environment with substituted tryptophan residues

JC Touchette, LL Williams, D Ajit, F Gallazzi… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2010 - Elsevier
A signature feature of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of plaques, composed of
fibrillar amyloid-β protein (Aβ), in the brain parenchyma. Structural models of Aβ fibrils reveal …

Aβ protofibrils possess a stable core structure resistant to hydrogen exchange

I Kheterpal, HA Lashuel, DM Hartley, T Walz… - Biochemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
Protofibrils are transient structures observed during in vitro formation of mature amyloid
fibrils and have been implicated as the toxic species responsible for cell dysfunction and …

pH-dependent structural transitions of Alzheimer amyloid peptides

PE Fraser, JT Nguyen, WK Surewicz, DA Kirschner - Biophysical journal, 1991 - cell.com
To understand the molecular interactions leading to the assembly of beta/44 protein into the
hallmark fibrils of Alzheimer's disease (AD), we have examined the ability of synthetic …

Probing the role of backbone hydrogen bonding in β-amyloid fibrils with inhibitor peptides containing ester bonds at alternate positions

DJ Gordon, SC Meredith - Biochemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
Protein− protein interactions are frequently mediated by stable, intermolecular β-sheets. A
number of cytokines and the HIV Protease, for example, dimerize through β-sheet motifs …

Spatial Separation of β-Sheet Domains of β-Amyloid:  Disruption of Each β-Sheet by N-Methyl Amino Acids

KL Sciarretta, A Boire, DJ Gordon, SC Meredith - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
In a recent model of β-amyloid (Aβ) fibrils, based mainly on solid-state NMR data, a
molecular layer consists of two β-sheets (residues 12− 23 and 31− 40 of Aβ1− 40), folded …