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Physico-chemical properties of the N-terminally truncated L68Q cystatin C found in amyloid deposits of brain haemorrhage patients.

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Summary, in English

Cystatin C, a major extracellular cysteine proteinase inhibitor, is deposited as amyloid in brain haemorrhage patients with hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA). A disease-causing mutation on the genetic level results in the substitution Leu68-->Gln (L68Q) in cystatin C, which causes protein instability. Besides carrying the L68Q substitution, cystatin C in amyloid deposits isolated from patients is N-terminally truncated by 10 amino acids. To elucidate the role of the N-terminal truncation for protein stability and aggregation properties, (delta1-10,L68Q)-cystatin C was produced in an Escherichia coli expression system and characterised. Unlike wild-type cystatin C, this variant rapidly dimerised under physiological conditions. Two unfolding intermediates of (delta1-10,L68Q)-cystatin C were identified, under the same pH and ionic strength conditions as required to form intermediates of full-length L68Q cystatin C. No evidence was found that the N-terminal truncation per se alters protein stability and leads to higher forms of aggregation. Monomeric as well as dimeric L68Q cystatin C incubated with neutrophil elastase was truncated as in HCCAA patients' amyloid. A protein variant with a thrombin cleavage site placed in front of residue Gly11 in L68Q cystatin C was constructed and used to confirm that the N-terminal segment is similarly accessible to proteinases in the monomeric and dimeric states of L68Q cystatin C. Thus, the N-terminal segment of L68Q cystatin C is exposed to proteolytic attack and does not seem to be involved in intramolecular contacts leading to dimerisation or higher-order aggregation. We conclude that the N-terminal truncation likely is an event secondary to amyloid formation, and of no relevance for the development of HCCAA.

Publiceringsår

2002

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

301-305

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Biological Chemistry

Volym

383

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

De Gruyter

Ämne

  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Pharmacology and Toxicology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1437-4315