作者:Bertrand Dorgeret、Lucie Khemtémourian、Isabelle Correia、Jean-Louis Soulier、Olivier Lequin、Sandrine Ongeri
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.10.008
日期:2011.12
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the oligomerization and amyloid fibril formation of amyloid beta-peptide (A beta). We describe a novel class of small water-soluble A beta binding peptidomimetics based on two hydrophobic Ala-Val and Val-Leu dipeptides linked to a D-glucopyranosyl scaffold through aminoalkyl and carboxyethyl links in C1 and C6 positions. These compounds combine the targeting of hydrophobic recognition interfaces with an original hydrophilic sugar beta-breakage strategy. These molecules were shown, by fluorescence thioflavin-T assays, to dramatically slow down the kinetics of amyloid fibril formation even at a low peptidomimetics to A beta ratio of 0.1:1. Electron microscopy images revealed that the peptidomimetics efficiently reduced the amount of typical amyloid fibrils. NMR saturation transfer difference experiments indicated that these molecules interact with A beta aggregated species through their hydrophobic amino acid residues. This inhibition effect was found to be sequence-specific since these molecules did not alter the kinetics of aggregation of another amyloid peptide, IAPP, involved in type 2 diabetes mellitus. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.