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American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 11(136), p. 4093-4096, 2014

DOI: 10.1021/ja4114374

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Impact of Bilayer Lipid Composition on the Structure and Topology of the Transmembrane Amyloid Precursor C99 Protein

Journal article published in 2014 by Yuanli Song, Kathleen F. Mittendorf ORCID, Zhenwei Lu, Charles R. Sanders
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

C99 (also known as β-CTF) is the 99 residue transmembrane C-terminal domain (residues 672-770) of the amyloid precursor protein and is the immediate precursor of the amyloid-β (Aβ) polypeptides. To test the dependence of the C99 structure on the composition of the host model membranes, NMR studies of C99 were conducted in both anionic lyso-myristoylphosphatidylglycerol (LMPG) micelles and in a series of five zwitterionic bicelle compositions involving phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin in which the acyl chain lengths of these lipid components varied from 14 to 24 carbons. Some of these mixtures are reported for the first time in this work and should be of broad utility in membrane protein research. The site-specific backbone 15N and 1H chemical shifts for C99 in LMPG and in all 5 bicelle mixtures were seen to be remarkably similar, indicating little dependence of the backbone structure of C99 on the com-position of the host model membrane. However, the length of the transmembrane span was seen to vary in a manner that alters the positioning of the gamma-secretase cleavage sites with respect to the center of the bilayer. This observation may contribute to the known dependency of the Aβ42-to-Aβ40 production ratio on both membrane thickness and the length of the C99 transmembrane domain.