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Type: Journal article
Title: The molecular chaperone β-casein prevents amorphous and fibrillar aggregation of α-lactalbumin by stabilisation of dynamic disorder
Other Titles: The molecular chaperone beta-casein prevents amorphous and fibrillar aggregation of alpha-lactalbumin by stabilisation of dynamic disorder
Author: Sanders, H.M.
Jovcevski, B.
Carver, J.
Pukala, T.L.
Citation: Biochemical Journal, 2020; 477(3):629-643
Publisher: Portland Press
Issue Date: 2020
ISSN: 0264-6021
1470-8728
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Henry M. Sanders, Blagojce Jovcevski, John A. Carver and Tara L. Pukala
Abstract: Deficits in protein homeostasis (proteostasis) are typified by the partial unfolding or misfolding of native proteins leading to amorphous or fibrillar aggregation, events that have been closely associated with diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. Molecular chaperones are intimately involved in maintaining proteostasis, and their mechanisms of action are in part dependent on the morphology of aggregation-prone proteins. This study utilised native ion-mobility mass spectrometry to provide molecular insights into the conformational properties and dynamics of a model protein, α-lactalbumin (α-LA), which aggregates in an amorphous or amyloid fibrillar manner controlled by appropriate selection of experimental conditions.  The molecular chaperone β-casein (b-CN) is effective at inhibiting amorphous and fibrillar aggregation of α-LA at sub-stoichiometric ratios, with greater efficiency against fibril formation. Analytical size-exclusion chromatography demonstrates the interaction between β-CN and amorphously aggregating α-LA is stable, forming a soluble high molecular weight complex, whilst with fibril-forming α-LA the interaction is transient. Moreover, ion-mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) coupled with collision-induced unfolding (CIU) revealed that α-LA monomers undergo distinct conformational transitions during the initial stages of amorphous (order to disorder) and fibrillar (disorder to order) aggregation. The structural heterogeneity of monomeric α-LA during fibrillation is reduced in the presence of β-CN along with an enhancement in stability, which provides a potential means for preventing fibril formation. Together, this study demonstrates how IM-MS and CIU can investigate the unfolding of proteins as well as examine transient and dynamic protein-chaperone interactions, and thereby provides detailed insight into the mechanism of chaperone action and proteostasis mechanisms.
Keywords: α-lactalubumin; β-casein; mass spectrometry; molecular chaperones; protein aggregation; protein conformation
Rights: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).
DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20190638
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102033
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1068087
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bcj20190638
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