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朊病毒疾病中寡聚体中间体的模拟

Simulations of Oligomeric Intermediates in Prion Diseases

David L. Mobley, Daniel L. Cox, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Rahul V. Kulkarni, Alexander Slepoy

摘要:

我们扩展了我们以前的随机元胞自动机为基础的模型,区域聚集的朊病毒蛋白在神经元表面。新的各向异性模型使我们能够模拟蛋白质之间的强β-折叠和较弱的附着键。约束结合方向使我们能够产生的聚集体结构与最近观察到的体外实验中发现的六边形晶格对称性。我们认为,这些规则的约束可能对应于潜在的空间约束的聚集过程。我们发现,以单体为主的面积聚集体的增长太慢,无法解释一些观察到的倍增时间与孵育时间的比值从数据推断,因此考虑聚集为主的相对稳定,但非传染性的寡聚中间体。我们比较低聚物聚集的动力学理论分析的空间明确的模拟过程。我们发现,与合适的规则错误折叠的低聚物,可能是由于水排斥周围的聚集体,由此产生的低聚物聚集模型映射到我们以前的单体聚集模型。因此,它可以产生一些相同的有吸引力的功能描述朊病毒的孵化时间数据。我们提出实验来测试寡聚聚集模型。

英文摘要:

We extend our previous stochastic cellular automata based model for areal aggregation of prion proteins on neuronal surfaces. The new anisotropic model allow us to simulate both strong beta-sheet and weaker attachment bonds between proteins. Constraining binding directions allows us to generate aggregate structures with the hexagonal lattice symmetry found in recently observed in vitro experiments. We argue that these constraints on rules may correspond to underlying steric constraints on the aggregation process. We find that monomer dominated growth of the areal aggregate is too slow to account for some observed doubling time-to-incubation time ratios inferred from data, and so consider aggregation dominated by relatively stable but non-infectious oligomeric intermediates. We compare a kinetic theory analysis of oligomeric aggregation to spatially explicit simulations of the process. We find that with suitable rules for misfolding of oligomers, possibly due to water exclusion by the surrounding aggregate, the resulting oligomeric aggregation model maps onto our previous monomer aggregation model. Therefore it can produce some of the same attractive features for the description of prion incubation time data. We propose experiments to test the oligomeric aggregation model.

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