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Two-dimensional infrared spectra of isotopically diluted amyloid fibrils from Abeta40.


ABSTRACT: The 2D IR spectra of the amide-I vibrations of amyloid fibrils from Abeta40 were obtained. The matured fibrils formed from strands having isotopic substitution by (13)C (18)O at Gly-38, Gly-33, Gly-29, or Ala-21 show vibrational exciton spectra having reduced dimensionality. Indeed, linear chain excitons of amide units are seen, for which the interamide vibrational coupling is measured in fibrils grown from 50% and 5% mixtures of labeled and unlabeled strands. The data prove that the 1D excitons are formed from parallel in-register sheets. The coupling constants show that for each of the indicated residues the amide carbonyls in the chains are separated by 0.5 +/- 0.05 nm. The isotope replacement of Gly-25 does not reveal linear excitons, consistent with the region of the strand having a different structure distribution. The vibrational frequencies of the amide-I modes, freed from effects of amide vibrational excitation exchange by 5% dilution experiments, point to there being a component of an electric field along the fibril axis that increases through the sequence Gly-38, Gly-33, Gly-29. The field is dominated by side chains of neighboring residues.

SUBMITTER: Kim YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2409414 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Two-dimensional infrared spectra of isotopically diluted amyloid fibrils from Abeta40.

Kim Yung Sam YS   Liu Liu L   Axelsen Paul H PH   Hochstrasser Robin M RM  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080522 22


The 2D IR spectra of the amide-I vibrations of amyloid fibrils from Abeta40 were obtained. The matured fibrils formed from strands having isotopic substitution by (13)C (18)O at Gly-38, Gly-33, Gly-29, or Ala-21 show vibrational exciton spectra having reduced dimensionality. Indeed, linear chain excitons of amide units are seen, for which the interamide vibrational coupling is measured in fibrils grown from 50% and 5% mixtures of labeled and unlabeled strands. The data prove that the 1D excitons  ...[more]

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