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Assessment of Amylo...
Assessment of Amyloid Forming Tendency of Peptide Sequences from Amyloid Beta and Tau Proteins Using Force-Field, Semi-Empirical, and Density Functional Theory Calculations
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- Muvva, Charuvaka (author)
- KTH,Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH),CSIR, Cent Leather Res Inst, Inorgan & Phys Chem Lab, Chennai 600020, Tamil Nadu, India.;Acad Sci & Innovat Res AcSIR, Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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- Natarajan Arul, Murugan (author)
- KTH,Teoretisk kemi och biologi
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- Subramanian, Venkatesan (author)
- CSIR, Cent Leather Res Inst, Inorgan & Phys Chem Lab, Chennai 600020, Tamil Nadu, India.;Acad Sci & Innovat Res AcSIR, Ghaziabad 201002, India.;CSIR, CLRI, Ctr High Comp, Chennai 600020, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- 2021-03-23
- 2021
- English.
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In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-6596 .- 1422-0067. ; 22:6, s. 3244-
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- A wide variety of neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of protein aggregates in intraneuronal or extraneuronal brain regions. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the extracellular aggregates originate from amyloid-beta proteins, while the intracellular aggregates are formed from microtubule-binding tau proteins. The amyloid forming peptide sequences in the amyloid-beta peptides and tau proteins are responsible for aggregate formation. Experimental studies have until the date reported many of such amyloid forming peptide sequences in different proteins, however, there is still limited molecular level understanding about their tendency to form aggregates. In this study, we employed umbrella sampling simulations and subsequent electronic structure theory calculations in order to estimate the energy profiles for interconversion of the helix to beta-sheet like secondary structures of sequences from amyloid-beta protein (KLVFFA) and tau protein (QVEVKSEKLD and VQIVYKPVD). The study also included a poly-alanine sequence as a reference system. The calculated force-field based free energy profiles predicted a flat minimum for monomers of sequences from amyloid and tau proteins corresponding to an alpha-helix like secondary structure. For the parallel and anti-parallel dimer of KLVFFA, double well potentials were obtained with the minima corresponding to alpha-helix and beta-sheet like secondary structures. A similar double well-like potential has been found for dimeric forms for the sequences from tau fibril. Complementary semi-empirical and density functional theory calculations displayed similar trends, validating the force-field based free energy profiles obtained for these systems.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Alzheimer’
- s disease
- amyloid-β
- peptide
- amyloid forming peptides
- Tau protein
- umbrella sampling simulations
- free energy calculations
- QM calculations
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- art (subject category)
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