High-throughput discovery of fluoroprobes that recognize amyloid fibril polymorphs.

ABSTRACT: Aggregation of microtubule-associated protein tau into conformationally distinct fibrils underpins neurodegenerative tauopathies. Fluorescent probes (fluoroprobes) such as thioflavin T have been essential tools for studying tau aggregation; however, most of them do not discriminate between amyloid fibril conformations (polymorphs). This gap is due, in part, to a lack of high-throughput methods for screening large, diverse chemical collections. Here we leverage advances in protein-adaptive differential scanning fluorimetry to screen the Aurora collection of 300+ fluoroprobes against multiple synthetic fibril polymorphs, including those formed from tau, α-synuclein and islet amyloid polypeptide. This screen-coupled with excitation-multiplexed bright-emission recording (EMBER) imaging and ort

SUBMITTER: Carroll EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491066 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature