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Li JY, Zhou CM, Jin RL, Song JH, Yang KC, Li SL, Tan BH, Li YC. The detection methods currently available for protein aggregation in neurological diseases. J Chem Neuroanat 2024; 138:102420. [PMID: 38626816 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2024.102420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 03/30/2024] [Accepted: 04/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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Protein aggregation is a pathological feature in various neurodegenerative diseases and is thought to play a crucial role in the onset and progression of neurological disorders. This pathological phenomenon has attracted increasing attention from researchers, but the underlying mechanism has not been fully elucidated yet. Researchers are increasingly interested in identifying chemicals or methods that can effectively detect protein aggregation or maintain protein stability to prevent aggregation formation. To date, several methods are available for detecting protein aggregates, including fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and molecular detection methods. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of methods to observe protein aggregation in situ under a microscope. This article reviews the two main aspects of protein aggregation: the mechanisms and detection methods of protein aggregation. The aim is to provide clues for the development of new methods to study this pathological phenomenon.
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- Jing-Yi Li
- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Laboratory Teaching Center of Basic Medicine, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University, Changchun city, Jilin Province 130021, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pathobiology, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China.
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Kole PB, Kollur SP, Revanasiddappa HD, Shivamallu C, Costa RA, Junior ESA, Anselmo LM, da Silva JN, Srinivasa C, Syed A, Singh FV. Structural, Electronic, Vibrational and Pharmacological Investigations of Highly Functionalized Diarylmethane Molecules Using DFT Calculations, Molecular Dynamics and Molecular Docking. Polycycl Aromat Compd 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2022.2041050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Priyanka B. Kole
- Chemistry Division, School of Advanced Science, VIT University, Chennai, India
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
- Department of Sciences, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru, India
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Life Sciences, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSSAHER), Mysuru, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Amazonas (DQ-UFAM), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Amazonas (DQ-UFAM), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Amazonas (DQ-UFAM), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Amazonas (DQ-UFAM), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Division, School of Advanced Science, VIT University, Chennai, India
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Michler's hydrol blue elucidates structural differences in prion strains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:29677-29683. [PMID: 33168711 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001732117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Yeast prions provide self-templating protein-based mechanisms of inheritance whose conformational changes lead to the acquisition of diverse new phenotypes. The best studied of these is the prion domain (NM) of Sup35, which forms an amyloid that can adopt several distinct conformations (strains) that confer distinct phenotypes when introduced into cells that do not carry the prion. Classic dyes, such as thioflavin T and Congo red, exhibit large increases in fluorescence when bound to amyloids, but these dyes are not sensitive to local structural differences that distinguish amyloid strains. Here we describe the use of Michler's hydrol blue (MHB) to investigate fibrils formed by the weak and strong prion fibrils of Sup35NM and find that MHB differentiates between these two polymorphs. Quantum mechanical time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations indicate that the fluorescence properties of amyloid-bound MHB can be correlated to the change of binding site polarity and that a tyrosine to phenylalanine substitution at a binding site could be detected. Through the use of site-specific mutants, we demonstrate that MHB is a site-specific environmentally sensitive probe that can provide structural details about amyloid fibrils and their polymorphs.
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Lin CY, Romei MG, Oltrogge LM, Mathews II, Boxer SG. Unified Model for Photophysical and Electro-Optical Properties of Green Fluorescent Proteins. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:15250-15265. [PMID: 31450887 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) have become indispensable imaging and optogenetic tools. Their absorption and emission properties can be optimized for specific applications. Currently, no unified framework exists to comprehensively describe these photophysical properties, namely the absorption maxima, emission maxima, Stokes shifts, vibronic progressions, extinction coefficients, Stark tuning rates, and spontaneous emission rates, especially one that includes the effects of the protein environment. In this work, we study the correlations among these properties from systematically tuned GFP environmental mutants and chromophore variants. Correlation plots reveal monotonic trends, suggesting that all these properties are governed by one underlying factor dependent on the chromophore's environment. By treating the anionic GFP chromophore as a mixed-valence compound existing as a superposition of two resonance forms, we argue that this underlying factor is defined as the difference in energy between the two forms, or the driving force, which is tuned by the environment. We then introduce a Marcus-Hush model with the bond length alternation vibrational mode, treating the GFP absorption band as an intervalence charge transfer band. This model explains all of the observed strong correlations among photophysical properties; related subtopics are extensively discussed in the Supporting Information. Finally, we demonstrate the model's predictive power by utilizing the additivity of the driving force. The model described here elucidates the role of the protein environment in modulating the photophysical properties of the chromophore, providing insights and limitations for designing new GFPs with desired phenotypes. We argue that this model should also be generally applicable to both biological and nonbiological polymethine dyes.
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- Chi-Yun Lin
- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource , 2575 Sand Hill Road , Menlo Park , California 94025 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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Theories of color in cyanine dyes have evolved around the idea of a "resonance" of structures with distinct bonding and charge localization. Understanding the emergence of resonance models from the underlying many-electron problem remains a central issue for these systems. Here, the issue is addressed using a maximum-entropy approach to valence-bond representations of state-averaged complete-active space self-consistent field models. The approach allows calculation of energies and couplings of high-energy valence-bond structures that mediate superexchange couplings and chemical bonding. A series of valence-bond Hamiltonians for a series of bridge-substituted derivatives of Michler's hydrol blue (a monomethine cyanine) is presented. The Hamiltonians are approximated with a simple linear model parametrized by the Brown-Okamoto σp+ parameter of the bridge substituent. A quantitative lower bound on σp+, beyond which a resonant cyanine-like ground state will not exist, is presented. The large effective coupling in two-state resonance models emerges from superexchange associated with either covalent bonding or charge-carrier delocalization, with the former contribution significantly the stronger. The results provide ab initio justification for empirical diabatic-state models of methine optical response. They are of general interest for understanding the optoelectronic response in cyanines.
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- Seth Olsen
- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland , Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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Olsen S. Canonical-ensemble state-averaged complete active space self-consistent field (SA-CASSCF) strategy for problems with more diabatic than adiabatic states: Charge-bond resonance in monomethine cyanines. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:044116. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4904298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Reimers JR, McKemmish LK, McKenzie RH, Hush NS. A unified diabatic description for electron transfer reactions, isomerization reactions, proton transfer reactions, and aromaticity. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:24598-617. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02236c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A way is found for describing general chemical reactions using diabatic multi-state and “twin-state” models. (Image adapted with permission from https://www.flickr.com/photos/cybaea/64638988/).
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- Jeffrey R. Reimers
- International Centre for Quantum and Molecular Structure
- College of Sciences
- Shanghai University
- Shanghai 200444
- China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- University College London
- London WC1E 6BT
- UK
- School of Chemistry
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- School of Mathematics and Physics
- The University of Queensland
- Australia
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- School of Chemistry
- The University of Sydney
- Sydney
- Australia
- School of Molecular Biosciences
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Olsen S. Locally-Excited (LE) versus Charge-Transfer (CT) Excited State Competition in a Series of Para-Substituted Neutral Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Chromophore Models. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:2566-75. [DOI: 10.1021/jp508723d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Seth Olsen
- School of Mathematics and
Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Yang CH, Hsu CP. A multi-state fragment charge difference approach for diabatic states in electron transfer: extension and automation. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:154104. [PMID: 24160497 DOI: 10.1063/1.4824906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The electron transfer (ET) rate prediction requires the electronic coupling values. The Generalized Mulliken-Hush (GMH) and Fragment Charge Difference (FCD) schemes have been useful approaches to calculate ET coupling from an excited state calculation. In their typical form, both methods use two eigenstates in forming the target charge-localized diabatic states. For problems involve three or four states, a direct generalization is possible, but it is necessary to pick and assign the locally excited or charge-transfer states involved. In this work, we generalize the 3-state scheme for a multi-state FCD without the need of manual pick or assignment for the states. In this scheme, the diabatic states are obtained separately in the charge-transfer or neutral excited subspaces, defined by their eigenvalues in the fragment charge-difference matrix. In each subspace, the Hamiltonians are diagonalized, and there exist off-diagonal Hamiltonian matrix elements between different subspaces, particularly the charge-transfer and neutral excited diabatic states. The ET coupling values are obtained as the corresponding off-diagonal Hamiltonian matrix elements. A similar multi-state GMH scheme can also be developed. We test the new multi-state schemes for the performance in systems that have been studied using more than two states with FCD or GMH. We found that the multi-state approach yields much better charge-localized states in these systems. We further test for the dependence on the number of state included in the calculation of ET couplings. The final coupling values are converged when the number of state included is increased. In one system where experimental value is available, the multi-state FCD coupling value agrees better with the previous experimental result. We found that the multi-state GMH and FCD are useful when the original two-state approach fails.
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- Chou-Hsun Yang
- Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 128 Section 2 Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Momicchioli F, Ponterini G, Vanossi D. Linear and nonlinear optical properties of V-shaped D–π–A–π–D chromophores: effects of the incorporation of aromatic rings in the polyenic π-bridges of open-chain ketocyanines. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:15576-89. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01564a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Olsen S. Why Bindschedler’s Green Is Redder Than Michler’s Hydrol Blue. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:2455-68. [DOI: 10.1021/jp309006e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Seth Olsen
- School of Mathematics
and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
QLD 4072 Australia
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Hu H, Przhonska OV, Terenziani F, Painelli A, Fishman D, Ensley TR, Reichert M, Webster S, Bricks JL, Kachkovski AD, Hagan DJ, Van Stryland EW. Two-photon absorption spectra of a near-infrared 2-azaazulene polymethine dye: solvation and ground-state symmetry breaking. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:7666-78. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50811k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Olsen S, McKenzie RH. A two-state model of twisted intramolecular charge-transfer in monomethine dyes. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:164319. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4762561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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