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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
Amyloids are associated with a number of protein misfolding disorders, including prion diseases. In this study, we used single-molecule force spectroscopy to characterize the nanomechanical properties and molecular structure of amyloid fibrils formed by human prion protein PrP90-231. Force-extension curves obtained by specific attachment of a gold-covered atomic force microscope tip to engineered Cys residues could be described by the worm-like chain model for entropic elasticity of a polymer chain, with the size of the N-terminal segment that could be stretched entropically depending on the tip attachment site. The data presented here provide direct information about the forces required to extract an individual monomer from the core of the PrP90-231 amyloid, and indicate that the beta-sheet core of this amyloid starts at residue approximately 164-169. The latter finding has important implications for the ongoing debate regarding the structure of PrP amyloid.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1542-0086
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2909-15
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Nanomechanical properties of human prion protein amyloid as probed by force spectroscopy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural