Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images.
The aggregation of proteins is central to many aspects of daily life, including food processing, blood coagulation, eye cataract formation disease and prion-related neurodegenerative infections. However, the physical mechanisms responsible for amyloidosis-the irreversible fibril formation of various proteins that is linked to disorders such as Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Huntington's diseases-have not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we show that different stages of amyloid aggregation can be examined by performing a statistical polymer physics analysis of single-molecule atomic force microscopy images of heat-denatured beta-lactoglobulin fibrils. The atomic force microscopy analysis, supported by theoretical arguments, reveals that the fibrils have a multistranded helical shape with twisted ribbon-like structures. Our results also indicate a possible general model for amyloid fibril assembly and illustrate the potential of this approach for investigating fibrillar systems.
Adamcik
Jozef
J
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jung
Jin-Mi
JM
Flakowski
Jérôme
J
De Los Rios
Paolo
P
Dietler
Giovanni
G
Mezzenga
Raffaele
R
D000682:Amyloid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D007782:Lactoglobulins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D055503:Protein Multimerization
D000682:Amyloid; D007782:Lactoglobulins
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