Interaction of hIAPP and Its Precursors with Model and Biological Membranes

Weise, Katrin; Mishra, Rajesh; Jha, Suman; Sellin, Daniel; Radovan, Diana; Gohlke, Andrea; Jeworrek, Christoph; Seeliger, Janine; Möbitz, Simone; Winter, Roland

doi:10.1002/9783527634323.ch4

Lipids and Cellular Membranes in Amyloid Diseases 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9783527634323.ch4

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Interaction of hIAPP and Its Precursors with Model and Biological Membranes

Katrin Weise¹,

Rajesh Mishra²,

Suman Jha³

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Macromolecular Crowding as a Suppressor of Human IAPP Fibril Formation and Cytotoxicity

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The biological cell is known to exhibit a highly crowded milieu, which significantly influences protein aggregation and association processes. As several cell degenerative diseases are related to the self-association and fibrillation of amyloidogenic peptides, understanding of the impact of macromolecular crowding on these processes is of high biomedical importance. It is further of particular relevance as most in vitro studies on amyloid aggregation have been performed in diluted solution which does not reflect the complexity of their cellular surrounding. The study presented here focuses on the self-association of the type-2 diabetes mellitus related human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) in various crowded environments including network-forming macromolecular crowding reagents and protein crowders. It was possible to identify two competing processes: a crowder concentration and type dependent stabilization of globular off-pathway species and a – consequently - retarded or even inhibited hIAPP fibrillation reaction. The cause of these crowding effects was revealed to be mainly excluded volume in the polymeric crowders, whereas non-specific interactions seem to be most dominant in protein crowded environments. Specific hIAPP cytotoxicity assays on pancreatic β-cells reveal non-toxicity for the stabilized globular species, in contrast to the high cytotoxicity imposed by the normal fibrillation pathway. From these findings it can be concluded that cellular crowding is able to effectively stabilize the monomeric conformation of hIAPP, hence enabling the conduction of its normal physiological function and prevent this highly amyloidogenic peptide from cytotoxic aggregation and fibrillation.

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Interaction of hIAPP and Its Precursors with Model and Biological Membranes

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Macromolecular Crowding as a Suppressor of Human IAPP Fibril Formation and Cytotoxicity

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