title: Amyloid oligomer conformation in a group of natively folded proteins.
abstract: Recent in vitro and in vivo studies suggest that destabilized proteins with defective folding induce aggregation and toxicity in protein-misfolding diseases. One such unstable protein state is called amyloid oligomer, a precursor of fully aggregated forms of amyloid. Detection of various amyloid oligomers with A11, an anti-amyloid oligomer conformation-specific antibody, revealed that the amyloid oligomer represents a generic conformation and suggested that toxic beta-aggregation processes possess a common mechanism. By using A11 antibody as a probe in combination with mass spectrometric analysis, we identified GroEL in bacterial lysates as a protein that may potentially have an amyloid oligomer conformation. Surprisingly, A11 reacted not only with purified GroEL but also with several purified heat shock proteins, including human Hsp27, 40, 70, 90; yeast Hsp104; and bovine Hsc70. The native folds of A11-reactive proteins in purified samples were characterized by their anti-beta-aggregation activity in terms of both functionality and in contrast to the beta-aggregation promoting activity of misfolded pathogenic amyloid oligomers. The conformation-dependent binding of A11 with natively folded Hsp27 was supported by the concurrent loss of A11 reactivity and anti-beta-aggregation activity of heat-treated Hsp27 samples. Moreover, we observed consistent anti-beta-aggregation activity not only by chaperones containing an amyloid oligomer conformation but also by several A11-immunoreactive non-chaperone proteins. From these results, we suggest that the amyloid oligomer conformation is present in a group of natively folded proteins. The inhibitory effects of A11 antibody on both GroEL/ES-assisted luciferase refolding and Hsp70-mediated decelerated nucleation of Abeta aggregation suggested that the A11-binding sites on these chaperones might be functionally important. Finally, we employed a computational approach to uncover possible A11-binding sites on these targets. Since the beta-sheet edge was a common structural motif having the most similar physicochemical properties in the A11-reactive proteins we analyzed, we propose that the beta-sheet edge in some natively folded amyloid oligomers is designed positively to prevent beta aggregation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Alzheimer's Disease, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoshiike
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Minai
authors.forename: Yo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.forename: Yun-Ru
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takashima
mesh_terms: D000682:Amyloid / Q000737:chemistry*; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D018834:Chaperonin 60 / Q000737:chemistry; D000939:Epitopes; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary
chemical_list: D000682:Amyloid; D018834:Chaperonin 60; D000939:Epitopes; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins; C057725:HSPB1 protein, human; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones
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