A Multimeric Quinacrine Conjugate as a Potential Inhibitor of Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Fibril Formation

ChemBioChem ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 952-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar T. Dolphin ◽  
Sabine Chierici ◽  
Myriam Ouberai ◽  
Pascal Dumy ◽  
Julian Garcia
2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. e2014442118
Author(s):  
Nir Salinas ◽  
Einav Tayeb-Fligelman ◽  
Massimo D. Sammito ◽  
Daniel Bloch ◽  
Raz Jelinek ◽  
...  

Antimicrobial activity is being increasingly linked to amyloid fibril formation, suggesting physiological roles for some human amyloids, which have historically been viewed as strictly pathological agents. This work reports on formation of functional cross-α amyloid fibrils of the amphibian antimicrobial peptide uperin 3.5 at atomic resolution, an architecture initially discovered in the bacterial PSMα3 cytotoxin. The fibrils of uperin 3.5 and PSMα3 comprised antiparallel and parallel helical sheets, respectively, recapitulating properties of β-sheets. Uperin 3.5 demonstrated chameleon properties of a secondary structure switch, forming mostly cross-β fibrils in the absence of lipids. Uperin 3.5 helical fibril formation was largely induced by, and formed on, bacterial cells or membrane mimetics, and led to membrane damage and cell death. These findings suggest a regulation mechanism, which includes storage of inactive peptides as well as environmentally induced activation of uperin 3.5, via chameleon cross-α/β amyloid fibrils.


Langmuir ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 5802-5808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Shen Lin ◽  
Liang-Yu Chen ◽  
Hui-Ting Tsai ◽  
Steven S.-S. Wang ◽  
Yung Chang ◽  
...  

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Robin L. McCarley

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pp. 4463-4471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayaraman Jayamani ◽  
Ganesh Shanmugam

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenjiro Ono ◽  
Moeko Noguchi ◽  
Yasuko Matsumoto ◽  
Daisuke Yanase ◽  
Kazuo Iwasa ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 343 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. HOWLETT ◽  
Ashley R. GEORGE ◽  
Davina E. OWEN ◽  
Robin V. WARD ◽  
Roger E. MARKWELL

2004 ◽  
Vol 120 (17) ◽  
pp. 8307-8317 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Tiana ◽  
F. Simona ◽  
R. A. Broglia ◽  
G. Colombo

2006 ◽  
Vol 202 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
K ONO ◽  
M NOGUCHISHINOHARA ◽  
M SAMURAKI ◽  
Y MATSUMOTO ◽  
D YANASE ◽  
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