Peculiarities of Copper Binding to α-Synuclein
| Autor: | Colin S. Burns, Anthony L. Fink, Vladimir N. Uversky, Atta Ahmad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Alpha-synuclein
Circular dichroism Binding Sites Circular Dichroism Size-exclusion chromatography chemistry.chemical_element Parkinson Disease General Medicine Fibril Copper nervous system diseases law.invention Crystallography chemistry.chemical_compound Protein structure chemistry Structural Biology law alpha-Synuclein Biophysics Binding site Electron paramagnetic resonance Molecular Biology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 29:825-842 |
| ISSN: | 1538-0254 0739-1102 |
| Popis: | Heavy metals have been implicated as the causative agents for the pathogenesis of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the toxic effects of metals ranging from metal-induced oxidation of protein to metal-induced changes in the protein conformation. Aggregation of a-synuclein is implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD), and various metals, including copper, constitute a prominent group of alpha-synuclein aggregation enhancers. In this study, we have systematically characterized the a-synuclein-Cu21 binding sites and analyzed the possible role of metal binding in a-synuclein fibrillation using a set of biophysical techniques, such as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), electron spin-echo envelope modulation (ESEEM), circular dichroism (CD), and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). Our analyses indicated that a-synuclein possesses at least two binding sites for Cu21. We have been able to locate one of the binding sites in the N-terminal region. Furthermore, based on the EPR studies of model peptides and Beta-synuclein, we concluded that the suspected His residue did not appear to participate in strong Cu21 binding. |
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