1. Impact of Cu(II) binding on Structures and Dynamics of Abeta42 Monomer and Dimer: Molecular Dynamics Study
- Author
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Giovanni La Penna, Mai Suan Li, Pham Dinh Quoc Huy, Peter Faller, and Quan Van Vuong
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0301 basic medicine ,Physiology ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Dimer ,Metal ions in aqueous solution ,Beta sheet ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,protein aggregation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Molecular dynamics ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Static electricity ,Amyloid-? aggregation ,copper binding to amyloid-? ,Chemistry ,fibril formation ,metal ions ,Cell Biology ,General Medicine ,Alzheimer's disease ,copper ions ,0104 chemical sciences ,Amorphous solid ,amyloid-? peptide ,Crystallography ,030104 developmental biology ,Monomer ,Copper ion binding ,A?-Cu interaction - Abstract
The classical force field, which is compatible with the Amber force field 99SB, has been obtained for the interaction of Cu(II) with monomer and dimers of amyloid-? peptides using the coordination where Cu(II) is bound to His6, His13 (or His14), and Asp1 with distorted planar geometry. The newly developed force field and molecular dynamics simulation were employed to study the impact of Cu(II) binding on structures and dynamics of A? 42 monomer and dimers. It was shown that in the presence of Cu(II) the ? content of monomer is reduced substantially compared with the wild-type A? 42 suggesting that, in accord with experiments, metal ions facilitate formation of amorphous aggregates rather than amyloid fibrils with cross-? structures. In addition, one possible mechanism for amorphous assembly is that the Asp23-Lys28 salt bridge, which plays a crucial role in ? sheet formation, becomes more flexible upon copper ion binding to the A? N-terminus. The simulation of dimers was conducted with the Cu(II)/A? stoichiometric ratios of 1:1 and 1:2. For the 1:1 ratio Cu(II) delays the A? dimerization process as observed in a number of experiments. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is associated with slow formation of interchain salt bridges in dimer as well as with decreased hydrophobicity of monomer upon Cu-binding.
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- 2016