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Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils
One of the principal hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is related to the aggregation of amyloid-β fibrils in an insoluble form in the brain, also known as amyloidosis. Therefore, a prominent therapeutic strategy against AD consists of either blocking the amyloid aggregation and/or destroying the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6100107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29857500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23061320 |
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author | Tavanti, Francesco Pedone, Alfonso Menziani, Maria Cristina |
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description | One of the principal hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is related to the aggregation of amyloid-β fibrils in an insoluble form in the brain, also known as amyloidosis. Therefore, a prominent therapeutic strategy against AD consists of either blocking the amyloid aggregation and/or destroying the already formed aggregates. Natural products have shown significant therapeutic potential as amyloid inhibitors from in vitro studies as well as in vivo animal tests. In this study, the interaction of five natural biophenols (curcumin, dopamine, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate, quercetin, and rosmarinic acid) with amyloid-β(1–40) fibrils has been studied through computational simulations. The results allowed the identification and characterization of the different binding modalities of each compounds and their consequences on fibril dynamics and aggregation. It emerges that the lateral aggregation of the fibrils is strongly influenced by the intercalation of the ligands, which modulates the double-layered structure stability. |
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spelling | pubmed-61001072018-11-13 Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils Tavanti, Francesco Pedone, Alfonso Menziani, Maria Cristina Molecules Article One of the principal hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is related to the aggregation of amyloid-β fibrils in an insoluble form in the brain, also known as amyloidosis. Therefore, a prominent therapeutic strategy against AD consists of either blocking the amyloid aggregation and/or destroying the already formed aggregates. Natural products have shown significant therapeutic potential as amyloid inhibitors from in vitro studies as well as in vivo animal tests. In this study, the interaction of five natural biophenols (curcumin, dopamine, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate, quercetin, and rosmarinic acid) with amyloid-β(1–40) fibrils has been studied through computational simulations. The results allowed the identification and characterization of the different binding modalities of each compounds and their consequences on fibril dynamics and aggregation. It emerges that the lateral aggregation of the fibrils is strongly influenced by the intercalation of the ligands, which modulates the double-layered structure stability. MDPI 2018-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6100107/ /pubmed/29857500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23061320 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tavanti, Francesco Pedone, Alfonso Menziani, Maria Cristina Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title | Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title_full | Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title_fullStr | Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title_full_unstemmed | Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title_short | Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils |
title_sort | computational insight into the effect of natural compounds on the destabilization of preformed amyloid-β(1–40) fibrils |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6100107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29857500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23061320 |
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