The role of copper(II) in the aggregation of human amylin

Sinopoli, Alessandro, Magrì, Antonio, Milardi, Danilo, Pappalardo, Matteo, Pucci, Pietro, Flagiello, Angela, Titman, Jeremy J., Nicoletti, Vincenzo G., Caruso, Giuseppe, Pappalardo, Giuseppe and Grasso, Giuseppe (2014) The role of copper(II) in the aggregation of human amylin. Metallomics . ISSN 1756-5901

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Abstract

Amylin is the 37-residue peptide hormone produced by the islet β-cells in the pancreas and the formation of amylin aggregates is strongly associated with β-cells degeneration in type 2 diabetes, as demonstrated by more than 95% of patients exhibiting amylin amyloid upon autopsy. It is widely recognized that metal ions such as copper(II) have been implicated in the aggregation process of amyloidogenic peptides such as Aβ and α-synuclein and there is evidence that also amylin self-assembly is largely affected by copper(II). For this reason, in this work, the role of copper(II) in the aggregation of amylin has been investigated by several different experimental approaches. Mass spectrometric investigations show that copper(II) induces significant changes in the amylin structure which decrease the protein fibrillogenesis as observed by ThT measurements. Accordingly, solid-state NMR experiments together with computational analysis carried out on a model amylin fragment confirmed the non fibrillogenic nature of the copper(II) induced aggregated structure. Finally, the presence of copper(II) is also shown to have a major influence on amylin proneness to be degraded by proteases and cytotoxicity studies on different cell cultures are reported.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/734849
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4MT00130C
Depositing User: Titman, Dr Jeremy
Date Deposited: 18 Aug 2014 14:17
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:53
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/3323

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