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α-Synuclein is a protein that aggregates as amyloid fibrils in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Small oligomers of α-synuclein are neurotoxic and are thought to be closely associated with disease. Whereas α-synuclein fibrillization and fibril morphologies have been studied extensively with various methods, the earliest stages of aggregation and the properties of oligomeric intermediates are less well understood because few methods are able to detect and characterize early-stage aggregates. We used fluorescence spectroscopy to investigate the early stages of aggregation by studying pairwise interactions between α-synuclein monomers, as well as between engineered tandem oligomers of various sizes (dimers, tetramers, and octamers). The hydrodynamic radii of these engineered α-synuclein species were first determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering. The rate of pairwise aggregation between different species was then monitored using dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy, measuring the extent of association between species labelled with different dyes at various time points during the early aggregation process. The aggregation rate and extent increased with tandem oligomer size. Self-association of the tandem oligomers was found to be the preferred pathway to form larger aggregates: interactions between oligomers occurred faster and to a greater extent than interactions between oligomers and monomers, indicating that the oligomers were not as efficient in seeding further aggregation by addition of monomers. These results suggest that oligomer-oligomer interactions may play an important role in driving aggregation during its early stages.
Pre-fibrillar oligomers of α-synuclein are thought to be pathogenic molecules leading to neurotoxicity associated with Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. However, small oligomers are difficult to isolate for study. To gain better insight into the properties of small α-synuclein oligomers, we investigated engineered oligomers of specific size (dimers, tetramers, and octamers) linked head-to-tail in tandem, comparing the behavior of the oligomers to monomeric α-synuclein. All oligomeric constructs remained largely disordered in solution, as determined from dynamic light scattering and size-exclusion chromatography. Electron microscopy revealed that each construct could aggregate to form fibrils similar to those formed by monomeric α-synuclein. The interactions with large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) composed of negatively-charged lipids differed depending on size, with smaller oligomers forming more extensive helical structure as determined by CD spectroscopy. Monitoring the influx of a fluorescence bleaching agent into vesicles showed that larger oligomers were somewhat more effective at degrading vesicular integrity and inducing membrane permeabilization.
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