Amyloid of the prion domain of Sup35p has an in-register parallel β-sheet structure
Amyloid of the prion domain of Sup35p has an in-register parallel β-sheet structure
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0609638103
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发表时间:
2006-12-26
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Tycko, Robert
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作者:
Shewmaker, Frank;Wickner, Reed B.;Tycko, Robert
The [PSI+] prion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a self-propagating amyloid form of Sup35p, a subunit of the translation termination factor. Using solid-state NMR we have examined the structure of amyloid fibrils formed in vitro from purified recombinant Sup35(1-253), consisting of the glutamine- and asparagine-rich N-terminal 123-residue prion domain (N) and the adjacent 130-residue highly charged M domain. Measurements of magnetic dipole-dipole couplings among C-13 nuclei in a series of Sup35NM fibril samples, C-13-labeled at backbone carbonyl sites of Tyr, Leu, or Phe residues or at side-chain methyl sites of Ala residues, indicate intermolecular C-13-C-13 distances of approximate to 0.5 nm for nearly all sites in the N domain. Certain sites in the M domain also exhibit intermolecular distances of approximate to 0.5 nm. These results indicate that an in-register parallel beta-sheet structure underlies the [PSI+] prion phenomenon.