An Efficient Method of Expression and Purification of Amyloid-Beta (Aβ1–42) Peptide from E. coli

Autor: Ghosh, Dhiman, Wälti, Marielle Aulikki, Riek, Roland
Přispěvatelé: Cieplak, Andrzej Stanisław
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Methods in Molecular Biology ISBN: 9781071625965
Methods in Molecular Biology, 2551
Protein Aggregation
ISSN: 1064-3745
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2597-2_4
Popis: Amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregation into soluble oligomers and fibril formation are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis. Aβ1–42 is the major form of the Aβ peptide present in neuritic plaques and shown to be neurotoxic both in vivo and in vitro. However, understanding the mechanism of its toxicity, aggregation, and other biochemical properties is limited because of its difficult production (recombinant or synthetic) and irreproducibility issues attributed to batch-to-batch preparation differences. Chemically synthetic Aβ1–42 is now well established, but it always introduces up to 5% D-isomers along with its L-isomeric form, and thus it is not fruitful for biochemical/structural studies. Here, we optimized an efficient published method for expression and purification of Aβ1–42 upon overexpression in Escherichia coli (E. coli) that provides a satisfactory yield as well as minimizes the variability between batch preparations. With the present protocol, ~7–8 mg/liter of unlabeled peptide and ~3.5–4 mg/liter for 13C,15N-labeled (double-labeled) Aβ1–42 were obtained. ISSN:1064-3745 ISSN:1940-6029
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