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KANAZAWA, Japan, July 28, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Researchers from Kanazawa University report on ACS Nano a high-speed atomic force microscopy on the formation of disease-related protein fibrides (amyloid) in studies collaborating with Showa University. It has been shown that mixing other variants of an unwrished protein and changing the acidity of its environment causes significant diversifications in amyloid distribution and elongation rates.
In the human body, proteins are rarely discovered in fibrillary aggregates called amyloid. Although some amyloid is known to have biological function, amyloid formation is related to pathologies, adding Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Accurately understanding how amyloid fibridies are formed is very important to better perceive the progression of such diseases and advance remedies. Now, Takahiro Watanabe-Nakayama of Kanazawa University, Kenjiro Ono of Showa University and his colleagues have studied the procedure for conforming specific amyloid fibrides using a strategy to visualize expansion over time. Scientists specifically studied the effect of cross-planting (“mixing”) of other proteins that shape aggregates and discovered diversifications in elongation rates and fibrillary structures.
Researchers studied alpha-synuclein, an abundant protein in the human brain. They tested what happened when wild alpha-synuclein molecules (the abundant herbal and maximum variant) shape aggregates, and also how aggregation is different when mutant (cross-sown) variants related to Parkinson’s disease are introduced. In addition, scientists tested the pH point influence of the microenviront where fibridy expansion occurs.
Using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), Watanabe-Nakayama, Kenjiro Ono and his colleagues were able to record fibrin aggregation in a nanometric solution and maximum video frequency for various cases. First, scientists tested the expansion of unique variant types (self-seeding). They found that mutants produced more aggregates, or were added more temporarily to an unbiased pH than wild-type variants. Another was that the elongation was faster at a decreasing pH (5.8, i.e. acid) than at a higher pH (7.4, i.e. basic).
For cross-planting, other scenarios may occur. The expansion of fibridies can accelerate, slow down, or even stop. The morphology of the original seed can be preserved, but the resulting fibrillale design is possibly also another: the typical structural bureaucracy is “straight” or “spiral”. The researchers found that the arrangement and dynamics of fibridies observed with HS-AFM correspond to solution processes through fluorescence experiments; conclusions were reached.
The findings of Watanabe-Nakayama, Kenjiro Ono and their colleagues are applicable to better understand amyloid-related diseases. Quoting the researchers: “Cross-planting combined with adjustments in elongation rates increases the structural diversity of the resulting assemblies. This diversity can be reflected in different neurotoxic effects for [protein] sets”.
Context
Amyloid
Amyloids are fibrillary aggregates of protein molecules. Although some amyloids are known to have a biological function (e.g. hormone release), they are related to diseases collectively called amyloid. These come with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Many other proteins can shape amyloid; Takahiro Watanabe-Nakayama of Kanazawa University and his colleagues studied the formation of intra-synuclein molecule fibriles in high-speed atomic force microscopy.
Atomic microscopy
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an imaging strategy in which the symbol is shaped by scanning a surface with a very small tip. The horizontal exploration motion of the tip is controlled by piezoelectric elements, while vertical movement is changed to a height profile, resulting in a height distribution of the pattern surface. As the strategy involves lenses, your solution is limited by the so-called diffraction limit. In a high-speed configuration (HS-AFM), the focus can be used to produce films of the structural evolution of a pattern in real time. Watanabe-Nakayama and his colleagues effectively used HS-AFM to examine the formation and structural dynamics of amyloid received through self-seeding and cross-breeding variants of the alpha-synuclein protein.
Reference
Takahiro Watanabe-Nakayama, Maika Nawa, Hiroki Konno, Noriyuki Kodera, Toshio Ando,
David B. Teplow and Kenjiro Ono. Self-seeding and cross-seeding on the kinetics and expansion design of alpha-synuclein fibridles observed through high-speed atomic force microscopy, ACS Nano published on July 17, 2020.
Corresponding authors
Takahiro Watanabe-Nakayama, PhD: [email protected]
Kenjiro Ono, MD, PhD: [email protected]
DOI: 10.1021 / acsnano.0c03074
URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03074
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