Marcoux, J;
Mangione, PP;
Porcari, R;
Degiacomi, MT;
Verona, G;
Taylor, GW;
Giorgetti, S;
... Bellotti, V; + view all
(2015)
A novel mechano-enzymatic cleavage mechanism underlies transthyretin amyloidogenesis.
EMBO Mol Med
, 7
(10)
pp. 1337-1349.
10.15252/emmm.201505357.
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Abstract
The mechanisms underlying transthyretin-related amyloidosis in vivo remain unclear. The abundance of the 49-127 transthyretin fragment in ex vivo deposits suggests that a proteolytic cleavage has a crucial role in destabilizing the tetramer and releasing the highly amyloidogenic 49-127 truncated protomer. Here, we investigate the mechanism of cleavage and release of the 49-127 fragment from the prototypic S52P variant, and we show that the proteolysis/fibrillogenesis pathway is common to several amyloidogenic variants of transthyretin and requires the action of biomechanical forces provided by the shear stress of physiological fluid flow. Crucially, the non-amyloidogenic and protective T119M variant is neither cleaved nor generates fibrils under these conditions. We propose that a mechano-enzymatic mechanism mediates transthyretin amyloid fibrillogenesis in vivo. This may be particularly important in the heart where shear stress is greatest; indeed, the 49-127 transthyretin fragment is particularly abundant in cardiac amyloid. Finally, we show that existing transthyretin stabilizers, including tafamidis, inhibit proteolysis-mediated transthyretin fibrillogenesis with different efficiency in different variants; however, inhibition is complete only when both binding sites are occupied.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A novel mechano-enzymatic cleavage mechanism underlies transthyretin amyloidogenesis |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15252/emmm.201505357 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201505357 |
| Additional information: | © 2015 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | amyloid, mechano‐enzymatic cleavage, transthyretin |
| 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 > Inflammation |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476700 |
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