Vitali Tugarinov, Francesco Torricella, Shreya Ghosh, G Marius Clore
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We provide an overview of the practical aspects of using NMR spectroscopy to follow the time course of protein fibril formation (aggregation) and quantitatively model the kinetics of aggregation processes. Following a brief survey of the theoretical foundations of the kinetics of protein aggregation and its inhibition, the modeling of aggregation kinetics, from data acquired by a series of fast two-dimensional 1H-15N correlation NMR spectra, is described. Examples are drawn from our recent NMR-based studies of (1) the aggregation kinetics of a pathogenic huntingtin exon-1 protein whose fibrillization in neurons is responsible for Huntington's disease, and (2) the kinetics of amyloid β42 fibril formation and the mechanism of its inhibition by the chaperone Hsp104.
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