β2-microglobulin amyloid fibrils are nanoparticles that disrupt lysosomal membrane protein trafficking and inhibit protein degradation by lysosomes.
β2-microglobulin amyloid fibrils are nanoparticles that disrupt lysosomal membrane protein trafficking and inhibit protein degradation by lysosomes.
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10.1074/jbc.m114.586222
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发表时间:
2014-12-26
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Hewitt EW
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Jakhria T;Hellewell AL;Porter MY;Jackson MP;Tipping KW;Xue WF;Radford SE;Hewitt EW
Background: The causative agents and pathological mechanisms of amyloid disease are poorly understood. Results: β2-Microglobulin amyloid fibrils display length-dependent internalization, alter trafficking of lysosomal membrane proteins, and inhibit the degradation of proteins by lysosomes. Conclusion: Amyloid fibrils act as nanoparticles that disrupt membrane trafficking and protein degradation. Significance: Fibril length, by determining access to intracellular compartments, may contribute to amyloid disease. Fragmentation of amyloid fibrils produces fibrils that are reduced in length but have an otherwise unchanged molecular architecture. The resultant nanoscale fibril particles inhibit the cellular reduction of the tetrazolium dye 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), a substrate commonly used to measure cell viability, to a greater extent than unfragmented fibrils. Here we show that the internalization of β2-microglobulin (β2m) amyloid fibrils is dependent on fibril length, with fragmented fibrils being more efficiently internalized by cells. Correspondingly, inhibiting the internalization of fragmented β2m fibrils rescued cellular MTT reduction. Incubation of cells with fragmented β2m fibrils did not, however, cause cell death. Instead, fragmented β2m fibrils accumulate in lysosomes, alter the trafficking of lysosomal membrane proteins, and inhibit the degradation of a model protein substrate by lysosomes. These findings suggest that nanoscale fibrils formed early during amyloid assembly reactions or by the fragmentation of longer fibrils could play a role in amyloid disease by disrupting protein degradation by lysosomes and trafficking in the endolysosomal pathway.