PMID- 26193839 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160329 LR - 20231111 IS - 1364-5528 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2654 (Print) IS - 0003-2654 (Linking) VI - 140 IP - 20 DP - 2015 Oct 21 TI - Insights into the consequences of co-polymerisation in the early stages of IAPP and Abeta peptide assembly from mass spectrometry. PG - 6990-9 LID - 10.1039/c5an00865d [doi] AB - The precise molecular mechanisms by which different peptides and proteins assemble into highly ordered amyloid deposits remain elusive. The fibrillation of human amylin (also known as islet amyloid polypeptide, hIAPP) and the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta-40) are thought to be pathogenic factors in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), respectively. Amyloid diseases may involve co-aggregation of different protein species, in addition to the self-assembly of single precursor sequences. Here we investigate the formation of heterogeneous pre-fibrillar, oligomeric species produced by the co-incubation of hIAPP and Abeta-40 using electrospray ionisation-ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (ESI-IMS-MS)-based methods. Conformational properties and gas-phase stabilities of amyloid oligomers formed from hIAPP or Abeta40 alone, and from a 1 : 1 mixture of hIAPP and Abeta40 monomers, were determined and compared. We show that co-assembly of the two sequences results in hetero-oligomers with distinct properties and aggregation kinetics properties compared with the homo-oligomers present in solution. The observations may be of key significance to unravelling the mechanisms of amyloid formation in vivo and elucidating how different sequences and/or assembly conditions can result in different fibril structures and/or pathogenic outcomes. FAU - Young, Lydia M AU - Young LM AD - Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. s.e.radford@leeds.ac.uk a.e.ashcroft@leeds.ac.uk. FAU - Mahood, Rachel A AU - Mahood RA FAU - Saunders, Janet C AU - Saunders JC FAU - Tu, Ling-Hsien AU - Tu LH FAU - Raleigh, Daniel P AU - Raleigh DP FAU - Radford, Sheena E AU - Radford SE FAU - Ashcroft, Alison E AU - Ashcroft AE LA - eng GR - BB/H014713/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom GR - BB/F01614X/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom GR - BB/E012558/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom GR - R01 GM078114/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM078114/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - BB/I015361/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Analyst JT - The Analyst JID - 0372652 RN - 0 (Amyloid beta-Peptides) RN - 0 (Islet Amyloid Polypeptide) RN - 0 (Peptide Fragments) RN - 0 (amyloid beta-protein (1-40)) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Amyloid beta-Peptides/*chemistry MH - Humans MH - Islet Amyloid Polypeptide/*chemistry MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Peptide Fragments/*chemistry MH - *Protein Multimerization MH - Protein Stability MH - Protein Structure, Secondary MH - *Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization PMC - PMC4626081 MID - NIHMS710267 EDAT- 2015/07/22 06:00 MHDA- 2016/03/30 06:00 PMCR- 2016/10/21 CRDT- 2015/07/22 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/07/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/03/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/10/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1039/c5an00865d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Analyst. 2015 Oct 21;140(20):6990-9. doi: 10.1039/c5an00865d.