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Biol Chem ; 398(4): 477-489, 2017 04 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27935845

ABSTRACT

Variable domain (VL) gene segments exhibit variable tendencies to be associated with light chain amyloidosis (AL). While few of them are very frequent in AL and give rise to most of the amyloidogenic light chains compiled at the sequence databases, other are rarely found among the AL cases. To analyze to which extent these tendencies depend on folding stability and aggregation propensity of the germline VL protein, we characterized VL proteins encoded by four AL-associated germline gene segments and one not associated to AL. We found that the AL-associated germline rVL proteins differ widely in conformational stability and propensity to in vitro amyloid aggregation. While in vitro the amyloid formation kinetics of these proteins correlate well with their folding stabilities, the folding stability does not clearly correlate with their germline's frequencies in AL. We conclude that the association of the VL genes segments to amyloidosis is not determined solely by the folding stability and aggregation propensity of the germline VL protein. Other factors, such as the frequencies of destabilizing mutations and susceptibility to proteolysis, must play a role in determining the light chain amyloidogenicity.


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Amyloid/genetics , Amyloidosis/genetics , Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics , Protein Aggregation, Pathological/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Germ-Line Mutation , Humans , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission , Protein Domains , Protein Stability , Sequence Alignment , Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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