A chemical mutagenesis approach to insert post-translational modifications in aggregation-prone proteins
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Author(s)
Ge, Ying
Masoura, Athina
Yang, Jingzhou
Aprile, Francesco
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Neurodegenerative diseases are a class of disorders linked to the formation in the nervous system of fibrillar protein aggregates called amyloids. This aggregation process is affected by a variety of post-translational modifications, whose specific mechanisms are not fully understood yet. Emerging chemical mutagenesis technology is currently striving to address the challenge of introducing protein post-translational modifications, while maintaining the stability and solubility of the proteins during the modification reaction. Several amyloidogenic proteins are highly aggregation-prone, and current modification procedures can lead to unexpected precipitation of these proteins, affecting their yield and downstream characterization. Here, we present a method for maintaining amyloidogenic protein solubility during chemical mutagenesis. As proof-of-principle, we applied our method to mimic the phosphorylation of serine-26 and the acetylation of lysine-28 of the 40-residue long variant of amyloid-β peptide, whose aggregation is linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
Date Issued
2022-06-15
Date Acceptance
2022-05-10
Citation
ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2022, 13 (12), pp.1714-1718
ISSN
1948-7193
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
1714
End Page
1718
Journal / Book Title
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Volume
13
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This article is available open access under a CC-BY Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK)
Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00077
Grant Number
MR/S033947/1
511
ARUK-PG2019B-020
Subjects
Alzheimer’s disease
amyloid-β
chemical mutagenesis
post-translational modification
Alzheimer Disease
Amyloid
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Amyloidogenic Proteins
Humans
Mutagenesis
Protein Processing, Post-Translational
Humans
Alzheimer Disease
Amyloid
Protein Processing, Post-Translational
Mutagenesis
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Amyloidogenic Proteins
0304 Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-05-22