Beyond amino acid sequence: disulfide bonds and the origins of the extreme amyloidogenic properties of insulin's H‐fragment

R Dec, M Koliński, W Dzwolak - The FEBS journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… α-helical native structure to β-sheet-rich amyloid fibrils. All three bonds remain intact throughout
the … Therefore, it follows that H-fragment monomers convert into an equimolar mixture of …

The role of intra and inter-molecular disulfide bonds in modulating amyloidogenesis: A review

A Mitra, N Sarkar - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
… rate of native insulin indicates that disulfide linkages have a … by converting it to peroxide
and oxygen in cells. The … of their native disulfide bond and rearrangement into amyloid fibrils. …

Virtual quasi-2D intermediates as building blocks for plausible structural models of amyloid fibrils from proteins with complex topologies: A case study of insulin

W Puławski, W Dzwolak - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
… defined by the presence of multiple disulfide bonds such as insulin, lysozyme, or α-… that
the native disulfide bonding is preserved in the fibrillar form (eg, ref (36)). Although there are …

Determination of amyloid core regions of insulin analogues fibrils

AK Surin, SY Grishin, OV Galzitskaya - Prion, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… the fibril, we investigate the possibility of obtaining amyloid fibrilsdisulphide bonds will
contain the proposed spine of the fibril. … fibrils are constructed from slightly modified native insulin

Extremely Amyloidogenic Single-Chain Analogues of Insulin's H-Fragment: Structural Adaptability of an Amyloid Stretch

R Dec, W Dzwolak - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
disulfide bond may constitute insulin’s major amyloid stretch … are identical with those
responsible for folding of the native … of steric zippers within insulin amyloid fibrils. The earlier …

[HTML][HTML] A tale of two tails: Self-assembling properties of A-and B-chain parts of insulin's highly amyloidogenic H-fragment

R Dec, W Dzwolak - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2021 - Elsevier
… conditions native insulin is capable of converting into … ACC 6-11 form amyloid fibrils at low
or neutral pH during 48 h at least … However, we have shown recently that the disulfide bond

Self-assembly of insulin-derived chimeric peptides into two-component amyloid fibrils: the role of Coulombic interactions

M Fortunka, R Dec, W Puławski, M Guza… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conversion of soluble polypeptides into insoluble amyloid … In both peptides, insulin’s
original intrachain Cys6–Cys11 disulfide bond is retained, while the native Cys7 residue is …

Atomic resolution structure of full-length human insulin fibrils

S Suladze, R Sarkar, N Rodina… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… structure of a monomorphic insulin amyloid fibril that has been … the three preserved disulfide
bridges define the amyloid core … of the three native disulfide bonds are represented at the …

Insulin fibrillation: toward strategies for attenuating the process

M Akbarian, R Yousefi, F Farjadian… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… of the roles of insulin disulfide bonds during the fibrillation of this … to investigate the heat
stability of insulin amyloid fibrils. … of fibrils was much more cooperative than that of native insulin. …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating insulin fibrillation using engineered B-chains with mutated C-termini

M Akbarian, R Yousefi, AA Moosavi-Movahedi… - Biophysical journal, 2019 - cell.com
… conserved intramolecular disulfide bonds followed by proteolytic … conversion of soluble insulin
molecules into insoluble fibrils … structure, and cell toxicity from intact insulin amyloid fibrils. …