Issue April 2010

category image Volume 27
No. 5 (573-712)
April 2010
ISSN 0739-110

Structural and Dynamic Properties of a New Amyloidogenic Chicken Cystatin Mutant I108T (641-649)

Chicken cystatin variant I108T is a mutant in the hydrophobic core of the molecule. It has shown many amyloid-prone characteristics in our previous experimental study. To explore the detailed structural and dynamic properties of the amyloidogenic mutant I108T, 10 ns molecular dynamic simulations of the I108T mutant and wild-type chicken cystatins were performed in this study. Our results suggested that the I108T mutant, which exhibited larger secondary structural fluctuations and hydrophobic core expanding tendency compared with the wild-type chicken cystatin, is a new amyloidogenic form of chicken cystatin, and therefore supported the hypothesis to some extent that site mutations in the hydrophobic core might induce the domain swapping.

Yuanyuan Yu1
Yaofeng Wang2
Jianwei He1,2
Yuan Liu1
Hui Li1,2
Huili Zhang2
Youtao Song1,2*

1College of Life Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
2Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Shenyang 110036, China

ysong@lnu.edu.cn

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