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Medientyp: E-Artikel Titel: The mechanism of amyloid‐fibril formation by stefin B: Temperature and protein concentration dependence of the rates Beteiligte: Škerget, Katja; Vilfan, Andrej; Pompe‐Novak, Maruša; Turk, Vito; Waltho, Jonathan P.; Turk, Dušan; Žerovnik, Eva Erschienen: Wiley, 2009 Erschienen in: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 74 (2009) 2, Seite 425-436 Sprache: Englisch DOI: 10.1002/prot.22156 ISSN: 0887-3585; 1097-0134 Entstehung: Anmerkungen: Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Cystatins, a family of structurally related cysteine proteinase inhibitors, have proved to be useful model system to study amyloidogenesis. We have extended previous studies of the kinetics of amyloid‐fibril formation by human stefin B (cystatin B) and some of its mutants, and proposed an improved model for the reaction. Overall, the observed kinetics follow the nucleation and growth behavior observed for many other amyloidogenic proteins. The minimal kinetic scheme that best fits measurements of changes in CD and thioflavin T fluorescence as a function of protein concentration and temperature includes nucleation (modeled as <jats:italic>N</jats:italic><jats:sub>I</jats:sub> irreversible transitions with equivalent rates (<jats:italic>k</jats:italic><jats:sub>I</jats:sub>), which fitted with <jats:italic>N</jats:italic><jats:sub>I</jats:sub> = 64), fibril growth and nonproductive oligomerization, best explained by an off‐pathway state with a rate‐limiting escape rate. Three energies of activation were derived from global fitting to the minimal kinetic scheme, and independently through the fitting of the individual component rates. Nucleation was found to be a first‐order process within an oligomeric species with an enthalpy of activation of 55 ± 4 kcal mol<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>. Fibril growth was a second‐order process with an enthalpy of activation (27 ± 5 kcal mol<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>), which is indistinguishable from that of tetramer formation by cystatins, which involves limited conformational changes including proline trans to cis isomerization. The highest enthalpy of activation (95 ± 5 kcal mol<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at 35°C), characteristic of a substantial degree of unfolding as observed prior to domain‐swapping reactions, equated with the escape rate of the off‐pathway oligomeric state. Proteins 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.</jats:p>