Raccosta, S;
Librizzi, F;
Jagger, AM;
Noto, R;
Martorana, V;
Lomas, DA;
Irving, JA;
(2021)
Scaling Concepts in Serpin Polymer Physics.
Materials
, 14
(10)
, Article 2577. 10.3390/ma14102577.
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Abstract
α1-Antitrypsin is a protease inhibitor belonging to the serpin family. Serpin polymerisation is at the core of a class of genetic conformational diseases called serpinopathies. These polymers are known to be unbranched, flexible, and heterogeneous in size with a beads-on-a-string appearance viewed by negative stain electron microscopy. Here, we use atomic force microscopy and time-lapse dynamic light scattering to measure polymer size and shape for wild-type (M) and Glu342→Lys (Z) α1-antitrypsin, the most common variant that leads to severe pathological deficiency. Our data for small polymers deposited onto mica and in solution reveal a power law relation between the polymer size, namely the end-to-end distance or the hydrodynamic radius, and the polymer mass, proportional to the contour length. We use the scaling concepts of polymer physics to assess that α1-antitrypsin polymers are random linear chains with a low persistence length.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Scaling Concepts in Serpin Polymer Physics |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ma14102577 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14102577 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
| Keywords: | serpins; serpin polymers; atomic force microscopy; dynamic light scattering; conformational disease; polymer theory |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Respiratory Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128213 |
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