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Affinity purification of cross-ß fibrils using immobilized thioflavin

使用固定化硫代黄素对交叉原纤维进行亲和纯化

基本信息

批准号：
10646061
负责人：
Wen Jiang
金额：
$ 18.43万
依托单位：
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-04-01 至 2025-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10646061
关键词：
3-Dimensional Actins Affinity Affinity Chromatography Alzheimer&apos s Disease American Amino Acid Sequence Amyloid Amyloid Proteins Amyloid beta-Protein Area Autopsy Binding Biological Assay Brain Buffers Cell Culture Techniques Cell model Centrifugation Cerebrospinal Fluid Characteristics Collagen Column Chromatography Congo Red Cryoelectron Microscopy Dementia Deposition Detergents Development Diagnostic Procedure Diagnostic Reagent Disease Disease Progression Drug Design Dyes Economic Burden Economics Etiology Exclusion Exhibits Feasibility Studies Ferritin Filament Fluorescence Fluorescent Probes Freezing Hour Image Immobilization In Vitro Individual Kinetics Length Life Expectancy Mass Spectrum Analysis Methods Modernization Molecular Conformation Movement Disorders Nature Neurodegenerative Disorders Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Oxides Patients Peptides Pharmaceutical Preparations Post-Translational Protein Processing Preparation Prions Procedures Property Protein Analysis Proteins Recombinant Proteins Recombinants Reporting Research Personnel Resolution Sampling Senile Plaques Severities Societies Source Specificity Surface Therapeutic Thioflavin S Time Tissue Sample Ultracentrifugation Vesicle Width Work X-Ray Crystallography alpha synuclein amyloid formation amyloid structure brain tissue cost density design experimental study feasibility testing graphene histological specimens improved in vivo interest magnetic beads meter monolayer motor disorder neuropathology preservation prevent protein aggregation protein folding protein purification protein structure reconstruction socioeconomics structural biology tau Proteins technology development tissue degeneration tool

项目摘要

Project Summary Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease cause a significant socioeconomic burden. These diseases manifest as protein plaques in the brain tissues. As of today, there are no available drugs to treat or prevent these diseases. For rational drug design, it is essential to understand the atomic details of the proteins involved in these plaques. To achieve this, researchers utilize structural biology methods such as electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM), nuclear magnetic resonance, and X-ray crystallography. Neuropathologists isolate these plaques from post-mortem patient brain tissues and assess the disease for the presence of plaques. Then the samples are subjected to structural studies. Since 2017, a significant number of atomic structures of the protein molecules involved in the plaques have been reported. However, isolation of proteins from tissue samples is a bottleneck due to low yield, differences in the protein structures, and the presence of contaminants. The proteins in the plaques have a distinct arrangement in that they form a β-strand conformation and stack on top of each other along a helical axis. This arrangement gives rise to a unique property – they bind to molecules such as thioflavin and exhibit characteristic fluorescence emission. Such a property enables researchers to know the presence of protein plaques and quantify them in cellular models. Here, we propose to utilize the specificity of thioflavin to protein filaments of neuropathological plaques as a new method of plaque purification. The method combines the specificity of thioflavin to the protein filaments and affinity-based purification methods that are widely used to purify proteins. We propose that our method would enable researchers to extract and isolate protein filaments from brain tissues with much improved yields, fewer contaminants, and shorter processing times.

项目总结