Kinetics of amyloid aggregation of mammal apomyoglobins and correlation with their amino acid sequences

FEBS Lett. 2006 Mar 6;580(6):1681-4. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.018. Epub 2006 Feb 17.

Abstract

In protein deposition disorders, a normally soluble protein is deposited as insoluble aggregates, referred to as amyloid. The intrinsic effects of specific mutations on the rates of protein aggregation and amyloid formation of unfolded polypeptide chains can be correlated with changes in hydrophobicity, propensity to convert alpha-helical to beta sheet conformation and charge. In this paper, we report the aggregation rates of buffalo, horse and bovine apomyoglobins. The experimental values were compared with the theoretical ones evaluated considering the amino acid differences among the sequences. Our results show that the mutations which play critical roles in the rate-determining step of apomyoglobin aggregation are those located within the N-terminal region of the molecule.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amyloid / chemistry*
  • Amyloid / genetics
  • Animals
  • Apoproteins / chemistry*
  • Apoproteins / genetics
  • Buffaloes
  • Cattle
  • Horses
  • Kinetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Myoglobin / chemistry*
  • Myoglobin / genetics
  • Protein Structure, Secondary

Substances

  • Amyloid
  • Apoproteins
  • Myoglobin
  • apomyoglobin