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Kumar N, Khatua P, Sinha SK. Can local heating and molecular crowders disintegrate amyloid aggregates? Chem Sci 2024; 15:6095-6105. [PMID: 38665536 PMCID: PMC11040654 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc00103f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The present study employs a blend of molecular dynamics simulations and a theoretical model to explore the potential disintegration mechanism of a matured Aβ octamer, aiming to offer a strategy to combat Alzheimer's disease. We investigate local heating and crowding effects on Aβ disintegration by selectively heating key Aβ segments and varying the concentration of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), respectively. Despite initiation of disruption, Aβ aggregates resist complete disintegration during local heating due to rapid thermal energy distribution to the surrounding water. Conversely, although SDS molecules effectively inhibit Aβ aggregation at higher concentration through micelle formation, they fail to completely disintegrate the aggregate due to the exceedingly high energy barrier. To address the sampling challenge posed by the formidable energy barrier, we have performed well-tempered metadynamics simulations. Simulations reveal a multi-step disintegration mechanism for the Aβ octamer, suggesting a probable sequence: octamer → pentamer/hexamer ⇌ tetramer → monomer, with a rate-determining step constituting 45 kJ mol-1 barrier during the octamer to pentamer/hexamer transition. Additionally, we have proposed a novel two-state mean-field model based on Ising spins that offers an insight into the kinetics of the Aβ growth process and external perturbation effects on disintegration. Thus, the current simulation study, coupled with the newly introduced mean-field model, offers an insight into the detailed mechanisms underlying the Aβ aggregation process, guiding potential strategies for effective disintegration of Aβ aggregates.
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- Naresh Kumar
- Department of Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Biophysical Chemistry Group, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Rupnagar Punjab 140001 India +91-01881-232066
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- Department of Chemistry, GITAM School of Science, GITAM (Deemed to be University) Bengaluru 562163 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Biophysical Chemistry Group, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Rupnagar Punjab 140001 India +91-01881-232066
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Sunda AP, Sharma AK. Molecular Insights into Cu/Zn Metal Response to the Amyloid β-Peptide (1-42). ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2024; 4:57-66. [PMID: 38283784 PMCID: PMC10811771 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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Aβ1-40 peptide and Aβ1-42 peptide are the building units of beta-amyloid plaques present in Alzheimer's disease (AD)-affected brain. The binding affinity of various divalent metal ions such as Cu and Zn present in AD-affected brain with different amino acids available in Aβ-peptide became the focus to explore their role in soluble neurotoxic oligomer formation. Cu2+ metal ions are known to enhance the neurotoxicity of the Aβ1-42 peptide by catalyzing the formation of soluble neurotoxic oligomers. The competitive preference of both Cu2+ and Zn2+ simultaneously to interact with the Aβ-peptide is unknown. The divalent Cu and Zn ions were inserted in explicit aqueous Aβ1-42 peptide configurations to get insights into the binding competence of these metal ions with peptides using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The metal-ion interactions reveal that competitive binding preferences of various peptide sites become metal-ion-specific and differ significantly. For Cu2+, interactions are found to be more significant with respect to those of Asp-7, His-6, Glu-11, and His-14. Asp-1, Glu-3, Asp-7, His-6, Glu-11, and His-13 amino acid residues show higher affinity toward Zn2+ ions. MD simulations show notable variation in the solvent-accessible surface area in the hydrophobic region of the peptide. Infinitesimal mobility was obtained for Zn2+ compared to Cu2+ in an aqueous solution and Cu2+ diffusivity deviated significantly at different time scales, proving its labile features in aqueous Aβ1-42 peptides.
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- Anurag Prakash Sunda
- Department
of Chemistry, J. C. Bose University of Science
and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad 121006, India
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- Department
of Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305817, India
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Gholami A. Alzheimer's disease: The role of proteins in formation, mechanisms, and new therapeutic approaches. Neurosci Lett 2023; 817:137532. [PMID: 37866702 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system (CNS), leading to memory and cognitive decline. In AD, the brain experiences three main structural changes: a significant decrease in the quantity of neurons, the development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein, and the formation of amyloid beta (Aβ) or senile plaques, which are protein deposits found outside cells and surrounded by dystrophic neurites. Genetic studies have identified four genes associated with autosomal dominant or familial early-onset AD (FAD): amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PS1), presenilin 2 (PS2), and apolipoprotein E (ApoE). The formation of plaques primarily involves the accumulation of Aβ, which can be influenced by mutations in APP, PS1, PS2, or ApoE genes. Mutations in the APP and presenilin (PS) proteins can cause an increased amyloid β peptides production, especially the further form of amyloidogenic known as Aβ42. Apart from genetic factors, environmental factors such as cytokines and neurotoxins may also have a significant impact on the development and progression of AD by influencing the formation of amyloid plaques and intracellular tangles. Exploring the causes and implications of protein aggregation in the brain could lead to innovative therapeutic approaches. Some promising therapy strategies that have reached the clinical stage include using acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, estrogen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antioxidants, and antiapoptotic agents. The most hopeful therapeutic strategies involve inhibiting activity of secretase and preventing the β-amyloid oligomers and fibrils formation, which are associated with the β-amyloid fibrils accumulation in AD. Additionally, immunotherapy development holds promise as a progressive therapeutic approach for treatment of AD. Recently, the two primary categories of brain stimulation techniques that have been studied for the treatment of AD are invasive brain stimulation (IBS) and non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). In this article, the amyloid proteins that play a significant role in the AD formation, the mechanism of disease formation as well as new drugs utilized to treat of AD will be reviewed.
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- Amirreza Gholami
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
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Khatua P, Mondal S, Gupta M, Bandyopadhyay S. In Silico Studies to Predict the Role of Solvent in Guiding the Conformations of Intrinsically Disordered Peptides and Their Aggregated Protofilaments. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:43337-43345. [PMID: 36506131 PMCID: PMC9730305 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c06235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The formation of amyloids due to the self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins or peptides is a hallmark for different neurodegenerative diseases. For example, amyloids formed by the amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides are responsible for the most devastating neuropathological disease, namely, Alzheimer's disease, while aggregation of α-synuclein peptides causes the etiology of another neuropathological disease, Parkinson's disease. Characterization of the intermediates and the final amyloid formed during the aggregation process is, therefore, crucial for microscopic understanding of the origin behind such diseases, as well as for the development of proper therapeutics to combat those. However, most of the research activities reported in this area have been directed toward examining the early stages of the aggregation process, including probing the conformational characteristics of the responsible protein/peptide in the monomeric state or in small oligomeric forms. This is because the small soluble oligomers have been found to be more deleterious than the final insoluble amyloids. This review discusses some of the recent findings obtained from our simulation studies on Aβ and α-synuclein monomers and small preformed Aβ aggregates. A molecular-level insight of the aggregation process with a special emphasis on the role of water in inducing the aggregation process has been provided.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indian
Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, India
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- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Pal T, Sahoo S, Prasad Ghanta K, Bandyopadhyay S. Computational Investigation of Conformational Fluctuations of Aβ42 Monomers in Aqueous Ionic Liquid Mixtures. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Khatua P, Gupta M, Bandyopadhyay S. Exploring Heterogeneous Dynamical Environment around an Ensemble of Aβ 42 Peptide Monomer Conformations. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:3453-3462. [PMID: 35816665 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Exploring the conformational properties of amyloid β (Aβ) peptides and the role of solvent (water) in guiding the dynamical environment at their interfaces is crucial for microscopic understanding of Aβ misfolding, which is involved in causing the most common neurodegenerative disorder, i.e., Alzheimer's disease. While numerous studies in the past have emphasized examining the conformational states of Aβ peptides, the role of water has not received much attention. Here, we have performed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of several full-length Aβ42 peptide monomers with different initial configurations. Our efforts are directed toward probing the origin of the heterogeneous dynamics of water around various segments of the Aβ peptide, identified as the two terminal segments (N-term and C-term) and the two hydrophobic segments (hp1 and hp2), along with the central turn region interconnecting hp1 and hp2. Our results revealed that water hydrating hp1, hp2, and turn (nonterminal segments) and C-term segments exhibit nonuniformly restricted translational as well as rotational motions. The degree of such restriction has been found to be correlated with the hydrogen bond relaxation time scales at the interface. Importantly, it is revealed that the water molecules around hp1 and, to some extent, around hp2, form relatively rigid hydration layers, compared to that around the other segments. Such rigid hydration layers arise due to relatively more solid-like caging motions resulting in relatively lesser hydration entropy. As hp1 and hp2 have been demonstrated to play a central role in Aβ aggregation, we believe that distinct water dynamics in the vicinity of these two segments, as outlined in this study, can provide vital information in understanding the early stages of the onset of the aggregation process of such peptides at higher concentration that can further aid toward advances in AD therapeutics.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand - 826004, India
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- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721302, India
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Sorout N, Chandra A. Interactions of the Aβ(1-42) Peptide with Boron Nitride Nanoparticles of Varying Curvature in an Aqueous Medium: Different Pathways to Inhibit β-Sheet Formation. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:11159-11178. [PMID: 34605235 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The aggregation of amyloid β (Aβ) peptide triggered by its conformational changes leads to the commonly known neurodegenerative disease of Alzheimer's. It is believed that the formation of β sheets of the peptide plays a key role in its aggregation and subsequent fibrillization. In the current study, we have investigated the interactions of the Aβ(1-42) peptide with boron nitride nanoparticles and the effects of the latter on conformational transitions of the peptide through a series of molecular dynamics simulations. In particular, the effects of curvature of the nanoparticle surface are studied by considering boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) of varying diameter and also a planar boron nitride nanosheet (BNNS). Altogether, the current study involves the generation and analysis of 9.5 μs of dynamical trajectories of peptide-BNNT/BNNS pairs in an aqueous medium. It is found that BN nanoparticles of different curvatures that are studied in the present work inhibit the conformational transition of the peptide to its β-sheet form. However, such an inhibition effect follows different pathways for BN nanoparticles of different curvatures. For the BNNT with the highest surface curvature, i.e., (3,3) BNNT, the nanoparticle is found to inhibit β-sheet formation by stabilizing the helical structure of the peptide, whereas for planar BNNS, the β-sheet formation is prevented by making more favorable pathways available for transitions of the peptide to conformations of random coils and turns. The BNNTs with intermediate curvatures are found to exhibit diverse pathways of their interactions with the peptide, but in all cases, essentially no formation of the β sheet is found whereas substantial β-sheet formation is observed for Aβ(1-42) in water in the absence of any nanoparticle. The current study shows that BN nanoparticles have the potential to act as effective tools to prevent amyloid formation from Aβ peptides.
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- Nidhi Sorout
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 208016
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 208016
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Ghosh S, Verma S. Carvedilol inhibits Aβ 25-35 fibrillation by intervening the early stage helical intermediate formation: A biophysical investigation. Int J Biol Macromol 2021; 188:263-271. [PMID: 34371042 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Self-assembly of disordered amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides results in highly ordered amyloid fibrils. The structural information of the early-stage events and also in the presence of inhibitors is of great significance. It is challenging to acquire due to the nature of the amyloids and experimental constraints. Here, we demonstrate the cascade of aggregation (early to late) of the Aβ25-35 peptide in the absence and presence of carvedilol, a nonselective β-adrenergic receptor blocker. The aggregation process of Aβ25-35 peptide is monitored using Thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence, dynamic light scattering (DLS), circular dichroism (CD), Raman spectroscopic techniques, and imaging experiments. We find that the Aβ25-35 peptide undergoes an early-stage (3-6 h) helical intermediate formation across the fibrillation pathway using CD and Raman measurements. Carvedilol obstructs the helical intermediate formation of Aβ25-35 peptide resulting in inhibition. CD spectra and deconvolution of the Raman bands suggest the β-sheet formation (24-100 h) in the absence of carvedilol. Spectroscopic results indicate a disordered structure for the peptide in the presence of carvedilol (24-100 h). Electron microscopy (EM) shows the formation of polymorphic fibrils for the peptide alone and non-amyloidal aggregates in the presence of carvedilol. Molecular docking study suggests that the plausible mode of interaction with carvedilol involves the C-terminal residues of the peptide.
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- Sudeshna Ghosh
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP 208016, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP 208016, India.
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Aggarwal L, Biswas P. Effect of Alzheimer’s Disease Causative and Protective Mutations on the Hydration Environment of Amyloid-β. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:2311-2322. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b10425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Leena Aggarwal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
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Sorout N, Chandra A. Effects of Boron Nitride Nanotube on the Secondary Structure of Aβ(1–42) Trimer: Possible Inhibitory Effect on Amyloid Formation. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:1928-1940. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b11986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Nidhi Sorout
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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Effect of aggregated Aβ protofilaments on intermolecular vibrational spectrum of confined water. J CHEM SCI 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-019-1699-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Liu F, Ma Z, Sang J, Lu F. Edaravone inhibits the conformational transition of amyloid-β42: insights from molecular dynamics simulations. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:2377-2388. [PMID: 31234720 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1632225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Previous work has shown that edaravone inhibits fibrillogenesis of amyloid-β protein (Aβ). However, the detailed mechanism by which edaravone inhibits the conformational transition of the Aβ42 monomer is not known at the molecular level. Here, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were coupled with molecular mechanics-Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA) method to address the issue. MD simulations confirmed that edaravone inhibits the conformational transition of the Aβ42 monomer in a dose-dependent manner. It was found that the direct interactions between edaravone and Aβ42 are responsible for its inhibiting effects. The analysis of binding free energy using the MM-PBSA method demonstrated that the nonpolar interactions provide favourable contributions (about -71.7 kcal/mol). Conversely, the polar interactions are unfavourable for the binding process. A total of 14 residues were identified as greatly contributing to the binding free energy between edaravone and the Aβ42 monomer. In addition, the intra-peptide hydrophobic interactions were weakened and the salt bridge D23-K28 was interrupted by edaravone. Therefore, the conformational transition was inhibited. Our studies provide molecular-level insights into how edaravone molecules inhibit the conformational transition of the Aβ42 monomer, which may be useful for designing amyloid inhibitors.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Fufeng Liu
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, PR China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China.,College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China
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- College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China
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- College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, PR China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China.,College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, PR China
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Khatua P, Mondal S, Bandyopadhyay S. Effects of Metal Ions on Aβ 42 Peptide Conformations from Molecular Simulation Studies. J Chem Inf Model 2019; 59:2879-2893. [PMID: 31095382 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In this study, we investigate the conformational characteristics of full-length Aβ42 peptide monomers in the presence of Na+ and Zn2+ metal ions using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with an aim to explore the possible driving forces behind enhanced aggregation rates of the peptides in the presence of salts. The calculations reveal that the presence of metal ions shifts the conformational equilibrium more toward the compact ordered Aβ structures. Such compact ordered structures stabilized by distant nonlocal contacts between two crucial hydrophobic segments, hp1 and hp2, primarily through two important hydrophobic aromatic residues, Phe-19 and Phe-20, are expected to trigger the aggregation process at a faster rate by populating and stabilizing the aggregation prone structures. Formation of a significant number of such distant contacts in the presence of Na+ ions has also been found to result in breaking of the N-terminal helix. On the contrary, binding of Zn2+ ion to Aβ peptide is highly specific, which stabilizes the N-terminal helix instead of breaking it. This explains why the aggregation rate of Aβ peptides is higher in the presence of divalent Zn2+ ions than monovalent Na+ ions. Relatively higher overall stability of the most populated Aβ peptide monomers in the presence of Zn2+ ions has been found to be associated with specific Zn2+-Aβ binding and significant free energy gain.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India
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- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India
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- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India.,Centre for Computational and Data Sciences , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India
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Shuaib S, Saini RK, Goyal D, Goyal B. Impact of K16A and K28A mutation on the structure and dynamics of amyloid-β42 peptide in Alzheimer’s disease: key insights from molecular dynamics simulations. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:708-721. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1586587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Suniba Shuaib
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India
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- School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
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Low temperature dependence of protein-water interactions on barstar surface: A nano-scale modelling. J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.10.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Khatua P, Bandyopadhyay S. Dynamical crossover of water confined within the amphiphilic nanocores of aggregated amyloid β peptides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:14835-14845. [PMID: 29781021 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01942h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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It is believed that the self-assembly of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides in the brain is the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous solutions of Aβ protofilaments of different sizes at room temperature have been carried out to explore the dynamic properties of water confined within the core and at the exterior surface of the protofilaments. Attempts have been made to understand how the non-uniform distortion of the protofilaments associated with their structural crossover influences the diffusivity and the hydrogen bonding environment of the confined water molecules. In contrast to the homogeneous solvent dynamical environment at the exterior surface, the calculations revealed heterogeneously restricted motions of water confined within the distorted cores of the protofilaments. Importantly, it is demonstrated that the structural crossover of the aggregates observed for the decamer is associated with a dynamical transition of water confined within its core. A direct one-to-one correlation between the heterogeneously restricted core water motions and the kinetics of the breaking and formation of hydrogen bonds quantitatively demonstrated that a modified hydrogen bond arrangement within the cores of higher order Aβ protofilaments is the origin behind the crossover in core water mobility. A fraction of the water molecules forming short-lived water-water hydrogen bonds within the core of the crossover protofilament decamer are believed to diffuse away easily from the core and thus play a crucial role in further growth of the protofilament by facilitating the binding of new peptide monomers.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, India.
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Khatua P, Bandyopadhyay S. Understanding the microscopic origin behind heterogeneous properties of water confined in and around A β17-42 protofilaments. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:065101. [PMID: 30111136 DOI: 10.1063/1.5040672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Aggregation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides in the brain is responsible for one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases, namely, Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we have carried out atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to explore the effects of non-uniform structural distortions of Aβ17-42 pre-fibrillar aggregates of different sizes on the microscopic structure and ordering of water molecules confined within their amphiphilic nanocores. The calculations revealed non-uniform peptide-water interactions resulting in simultaneous existence of both highly ordered and disordered water molecules within the spatially heterogeneous confined environment of the protofilament cores. It is found that the high degree of ordering originates from a sizable fraction of doubly coordinated core water molecules, while the randomly oriented ones are those that are coordinated with three neighbors in their first coordination shells. Furthermore, it is quantitatively demonstrated that relative fractions of these two types of water molecules are correlated with the protofilament core topology and the degree of confinement within that. It is proposed that the ordered core waters are likely to stabilize the Aβ protofilaments by screening the residue charges and favoring water-mediated salt bridge formations, while the randomly oriented ones can drive further growth of the protofilaments by being displaced easily during the docking of additional peptides. In that way, both types of core water molecules can play equally important roles in controlling the growth and stability of the Aβ-aggregates.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Bhattacharya S, Xu L, Thompson D. Revisiting the earliest signatures of amyloidogenesis: Roadmaps emerging from computational modeling and experiment. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- Shayon Bhattacharya
- Department of Physics, Bernal InstituteUniversity of LimerickLimerickIreland
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- Department of Physics, Bernal InstituteUniversity of LimerickLimerickIreland
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- Department of Physics, Bernal InstituteUniversity of LimerickLimerickIreland
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Mohanta D, Santra S, Jana M. Conformational disorder and solvation properties of the key-residues of a protein in water-ethanol mixed solutions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:32636-32646. [PMID: 29192709 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp06022j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A small number of key-residues in a protein sequence play vital roles in the function, stability, and folding of the protein. The nonuniform conformational disorder of a small protein Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2 (CI2) and its secondary segments has been quantified in the ethanol governed temperature induced unfolding process by estimating its change in configurational entropy in several water-ethanol mixed solutions. Such calculations further assist us in identifying the key-residues, from where the unfolding of the protein was initiated. Our findings match well with the reported experimental results. We then make an attempt to explore the properties of the solvent water and ethanol around the key-residues of the protein in its folded and unfolded forms at ambient temperature to identify the individual role of ethanol and water in the protein unfolding. We find that the key-residues of the unfolded protein are in good contact with both water and ethanol as compared to those of the folded protein. In the presence of ethanol, water molecules are noticed to form a rigid structurally bound solvation layer around the key-residues of the protein, irrespective of its conformational state. The restricted translational motion and prominent caging effect of the water and ethanol molecules present around the key-residues of the unfolded protein are a signature of the existence of a rigid mixed water-ethanol layer as compared to that around the folded protein. Furthermore, comparable restricted structural relaxation of the key-residue-water and key-residue-ethanol hydrogen bonds in the unfolded protein as compared to that in the folded one implies that the formation of a strong long-lived hydrogen bonding environment nourishes the unfolding process. We believe that our findings will shed light to several co-solvent governed unfolding processes of a protein in general.
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- Dayanidhi Mohanta
- Molecular Simulation Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela - 769008, India.
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Gupta M, Khatua P, Chakravarty C, Bandyopadhyay S. Hydration Behavior along the Folding Pathways of Trpzip4, Trpzip5 and Trpzip6. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:1560-1572. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Madhulika Gupta
- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Vajda T, Perczel A. The impact of water on the ambivalent behavior and paradoxical phenomenon of the amyloid-β fibril protein. Biomol Concepts 2017; 8:213-220. [PMID: 29211680 DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2017-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The crucial role of water in amyloid-β(Aβ) fibril proteins is evaluated in several ways including the water's thermodynamic and kinetic solvation effects. As regards the water's character, its hindered-rotation barriers are also considered. The following protein molecules considered here are: the Aβ40 (PDB ID: 2LMN), Aβ42 (PDB ID: 5KK3 and 2NAO) and the double-layered Aβ17-42 fibril. We discuss: (i) extracellular Aβ40 and Aβ42 fibril monomers exhibit an ambivalent propensity to transform into a helical form toward the N-term region and a β-strand-like form near the C-terminal; (ii) interfacial water molecules play a crucial role in protein-protein interactions, as molecular dynamics simulations have shown a significant impact on the protein-protein binding; (iii) it is shown that the spontaneous dimerization process of the Aβ42 fibril protein in water occurs via a two-step nucleation-accommodation mechanism; (iv) MD simulations of the double-layered Aβ17-42 fibril model show that the C↔C interface appears more energetically favorable than the N↔N interface due to large hydrophobic contacts; (v) the water's role in the HET-s prion and in the Aβ fibrillar aggregates; (vi) it was found that the monomer-oligomer equilibrium spontaneously dissociates into stable monomeric species when they are incubated up to 3 μm for a longer time (>1 week) in a physiological buffer.
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Agrawal N, Skelton AA. Binding of 12-Crown-4 with Alzheimer’s Aβ40 and Aβ42 Monomers and Its Effect on Their Conformation: Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Mol Pharm 2017; 15:289-299. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Nikhil Agrawal
- College
of Health Sciences, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, Durban 4041, South Africa
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- College
of Health Sciences, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, Durban 4041, South Africa
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Khatua P, Sinha SK, Bandyopadhyay S. Size-Dependent Conformational Features of Aβ17–42 Protofilaments from Molecular Simulation Studies. J Chem Inf Model 2017; 57:2378-2392. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Prabir Khatua
- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Ropar 140001, India
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- Molecular
Modeling Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Menon S, Sengupta N. Influence of Hyperglycemic Conditions on Self-Association of the Alzheimer's Amyloid β (Aβ 1-42) Peptide. ACS OMEGA 2017; 2:2134-2147. [PMID: 30023655 PMCID: PMC6044820 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Clinical studies have identified a correlation between type-2 diabetes mellitus and cognitive decrements en route to the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies have established that post-translational modifications of the amyloid β (Aβ) peptide occur under hyperglycemic conditions; particularly, the process of glycation exacerbates its neurotoxicity and accelerates AD progression. In view of the assertion that macromolecular crowding has an altering effect on protein self-assembly, it is crucial to characterize the effects of hyperglycemic conditions via crowding on Aβ self-assembly. Toward this purpose, fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study the effects of glucose crowding on Aβ dimerization, which is the smallest known neurotoxic species. The dimers formed in the glucose-crowded environment were found to have weaker associations as compared to that of those formed in water. Binding free energy calculations show that the reduced binding strength of the dimers can be mainly attributed to the overall weakening of the dispersion interactions correlated with substantial loss of interpeptide contacts in the hydrophobic patches of the Aβ units. Analysis to discern the differential solvation pattern in the glucose-crowded and pure water systems revealed that glucose molecules cluster around the protein, at a distance of 5-7 Å, which traps the water molecules in close association with the protein surface. This preferential exclusion of glucose molecules and resulting hydration of the Aβ peptides has a screening effect on the hydrophobic interactions, which in turn diminishes the binding strength of the resulting dimers. Our results imply that physical effects attributed to crowded hyperglycemic environments are incapable of solely promoting Aβ self-assembly, indicating that further mechanistic studies are required to provide insights into the self-assembly of post-translationally modified Aβ peptides, known to possess aggravated toxicity, under these conditions.
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- Sneha Menon
- Physical
Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical
Laboratory, Dr. Homi
Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India
- Academy
of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Training and Development Complex, CSIR Campus,
CSIR Road, Chennai 600113, India
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- Department
of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute
of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, West Bengal, India
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