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Iorio A, Melchionna S, Derreumaux P, Sterpone F. Dynamics and Structures of Amyloid Aggregates under Fluid Flows. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:1943-1949. [PMID: 38346112 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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In this work, we investigate how fluid flows impact the aggregation mechanisms of Aβ40 proteins and Aβ16-22 peptides and mechanically perturb their (pre)fibrillar aggregates. We exploit the OPEP coarse-grained model for proteins and the Lattice Boltzmann Molecular Dynamics technique. We show that beyond a critical shear rate, amyloid aggregation speeds up in Couette flow because of the shorter collisions times between aggregates, following a transition from diffusion limited to advection dominated dynamics. We also characterize the mechanical deformation of (pre)fibrillar states due to the fluid flows (Couette and Poiseuille), confirming the capability of (pre)fibrils to form pathological loop-like structures as detected in experiments. Our findings can be of relevance for microfluidic applications and for understanding aggregation in the interstitial brain space.
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- Antonio Iorio
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (UPR9080), CNRS, Université Paris-Cité, Paris 75005, France
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond Rothschild, Paris 75005, France
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- IAC CNR, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Lexma Technology, Arlington, Massachusetts 02476, United States
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (UPR9080), CNRS, Université Paris-Cité, Paris 75005, France
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond Rothschild, Paris 75005, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (UPR9080), CNRS, Université Paris-Cité, Paris 75005, France
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond Rothschild, Paris 75005, France
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Whitfield JF, Rennie K, Chakravarthy B. Alzheimer's Disease and Its Possible Evolutionary Origin: Hypothesis. Cells 2023; 12:1618. [PMID: 37371088 DOI: 10.3390/cells12121618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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The enormous, 2-3-million-year evolutionary expansion of hominin neocortices to the current enormity enabled humans to take over the planet. However, there appears to have been a glitch, and it occurred without a compensatory expansion of the entorhinal cortical (EC) gateway to the hippocampal memory-encoding system needed to manage the processing of the increasing volume of neocortical data converging on it. The resulting age-dependent connectopathic glitch was unnoticed by the early short-lived populations. It has now surfaced as Alzheimer's disease (AD) in today's long-lived populations. With advancing age, processing of the converging neocortical data by the neurons of the relatively small lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) inflicts persistent strain and high energy costs on these cells. This may result in their hyper-release of harmless Aβ1-42 monomers into the interstitial fluid, where they seed the formation of toxic amyloid-β oligomers (AβOs) that initiate AD. At the core of connectopathic AD are the postsynaptic cellular prion protein (PrPC). Electrostatic binding of the negatively charged AβOs to the positively charged N-terminus of PrPC induces hyperphosphorylation of tau that destroys synapses. The spread of these accumulating AβOs from ground zero is supported by Aβ's own production mediated by target cells' Ca2+-sensing receptors (CaSRs). These data suggest that an early administration of a strongly positively charged, AβOs-interacting peptide or protein, plus an inhibitor of CaSR, might be an effective AD-arresting therapeutic combination.
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- James F Whitfield
- Human Health Therapeutics, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Human Health Therapeutics, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Human Health Therapeutics, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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Lee SH, Secchi E, Kang PK. Rapid formation of bioaggregates and morphology transition to biofilm streamers induced by pore-throat flows. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2204466120. [PMID: 36989304 PMCID: PMC10083537 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2204466120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Bioaggregates are condensed porous materials comprising microbes, organic and inorganic matters, and water. They are commonly found in natural and engineered porous media and often cause clogging. Despite their importance, the formation mechanism of bioaggregates in porous media systems is largely unknown. Through microfluidic experiments and direct numerical simulations of fluid flow, we show that the rapid bioaggregation is driven by the interplay of the viscoelastic nature of biomass and hydrodynamic conditions at pore throats. At an early stage, unique flow structures around a pore throat promote the biomass attachment at the throat. Then, the attached biomass fluidizes when the shear stress at the partially clogged pore throat reaches a critical value. After the fluidization, the biomass is displaced and accumulated in the expansion region of throats forming bioaggregates. We further find that such criticality in shear stress triggers morphological changes in bioaggregates from rounded- to streamer-like shapes. This knowledge was used to control the clogging of throats by tuning the flow conditions: When the shear stress at the throat exceeded the critical value, clogging was prevented. The bioaggregation process did not depend on the detailed pore-throat geometry, as we reproduced the same dynamics in various pore-throat geometries. This study demonstrates that pore-throat structures, which are ubiquitous in porous media systems, induce bioaggregation and can lead to abrupt disruptions in flow.
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- Sang Hyun Lee
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
- Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
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Boster KAS, Cai S, Ladrón-de-Guevara A, Sun J, Zheng X, Du T, Thomas JH, Nedergaard M, Karniadakis GE, Kelley DH. Artificial intelligence velocimetry reveals in vivo flow rates, pressure gradients, and shear stresses in murine perivascular flows. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2217744120. [PMID: 36989300 PMCID: PMC10083563 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2217744120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Quantifying the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is crucial for understanding brain waste clearance and nutrient delivery, as well as edema in pathological conditions such as stroke. However, existing in vivo techniques are limited to sparse velocity measurements in pial perivascular spaces (PVSs) or low-resolution measurements from brain-wide imaging. Additionally, volume flow rate, pressure, and shear stress variation in PVSs are essentially impossible to measure in vivo. Here, we show that artificial intelligence velocimetry (AIV) can integrate sparse velocity measurements with physics-informed neural networks to quantify CSF flow in PVSs. With AIV, we infer three-dimensional (3D), high-resolution velocity, pressure, and shear stress. Validation comes from training with 70% of PTV measurements and demonstrating close agreement with the remaining 30%. A sensitivity analysis on the AIV inputs shows that the uncertainty in AIV inferred quantities due to uncertainties in the PVS boundary locations inherent to in vivo imaging is less than 30%, and the uncertainty from the neural net initialization is less than 1%. In PVSs of N = 4 wild-type mice we find mean flow speed 16.33 ± 11.09 µm/s, volume flow rate 2.22 ± 1.983 × 103 µm3/s, axial pressure gradient ( - 2.75 ± 2.01)×10-4 Pa/µm (-2.07 ± 1.51 mmHg/m), and wall shear stress (3.00 ± 1.45)×10-3 Pa (all mean ± SE). Pressure gradients, flow rates, and resistances agree with prior predictions. AIV infers in vivo PVS flows in remarkable detail, which will improve fluid dynamic models and potentially clarify how CSF flow changes with aging, Alzheimer's disease, and small vessel disease.
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- Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou310027, Zhejiang, China
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine and Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY14627
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627
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- Department of Mathematics, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou510632, China
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine and Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY14627
- School of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning110122, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine and Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY14627
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- Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI02912
- School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI02912
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627
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Nguyen PH, Sterpone F, Derreumaux P. Self-Assembly of Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Peptides from Solution to Near In Vivo Conditions. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:10317-10326. [PMID: 36469912 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Understanding the atomistic resolution changes during the self-assembly of amyloid peptides or proteins is important to develop compounds or conditions to alter the aggregation pathways and suppress the toxicity and potentially aid in the development of drugs. However, the complexity of protein aggregation and the transient order/disorder of oligomers along the pathways to fibril are very challenging. In this Perspective, we discuss computational studies of amyloid polypeptides carried out under various conditions, including conditions closely mimicking in vivo and point out the challenges in obtaining physiologically relevant results, focusing mainly on the amyloid-beta Aβ peptides.
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- Phuong H Nguyen
- CNRS, Université Paris Cité, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Université Paris Cité, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Université Paris Cité, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 75005, Paris, France
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Trumbore CN, Raghunandan A. An Alzheimer's Disease Mechanism Based on Early Pathology, Anatomy, Vascular-Induced Flow, and Migration of Maximum Flow Stress Energy Location with Increasing Vascular Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2022; 90:33-59. [PMID: 36155517 DOI: 10.3233/jad-220622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This paper suggests a chemical mechanism for the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow stresses provide the energy needed to induce molecular conformation changes leading to AD by initiating amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau aggregation. Shear and extensional flow stresses initiate aggregation in the laboratory and in natural biophysical processes. Energy-rich CSF flow regions are mainly found in lower brain regions. MRI studies reveal flow stress "hot spots" in basal cisterns and brain ventricles that have chaotic flow properties that can distort molecules such as Aβ and tau trapped in these regions into unusual conformations. Such fluid disturbance is surrounded by tissue deformation. There is strong mapping overlap between the locations of these hot spots and of early-stage AD pathology. Our mechanism creates pure and mixed protein dimers, followed by tissue surface adsorption, and long-term tissue agitation ultimately inducing chemical reactions forming more stable, toxic oligomer seeds that initiate AD. It is proposed that different flow stress energies and flow types in different basal brain regions produce different neurotoxic aggregates. Proliferating artery hardening is responsible for enhanced heart systolic pulses that drive energetic CSF pulses, whose critical maximum systolic pulse energy location migrates further from the heart with increasing vascular disease. Two glymphatic systems, carotid and basilar, are suggested to contain the earliest Aβ and tau AD disease pathologies. A key to the proposed AD mechanism is a comparison of early chronic traumatic encephalopathy and AD pathologies. Experiments that test the proposed mechanism are needed.
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- Conrad N Trumbore
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Krishnamurthy S, Sudhakar S, Mani E. Kinetics of aggregation of amyloid β under different shearing conditions: Experimental and modelling analyses. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2021; 209:112156. [PMID: 34736218 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.112156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Amyloid β (Aβ40) is a class of amyloidogenic proteins known to aggregate into a fibrillar network. The rate of aggregation and fibril yield is sensitive to external energy input, such as shear. In this work, simple shear and shaking experiments are performed on Aβ40 solution using a Couette cell and an orbital shaker, respectively. Experiments show that, under uniform shear, both the mass of fibrils and aggregation rate increase with the shear rate. In the case of orbital shaking, the lag time decreases with the rotational speed of the shaker, but the final fibril mass is the same for all agitation speeds. To explain this contrasting behavior of aggregation kinetics, a population balance model is developed to account for the effect of shear on the aggregation of Aβ. The kinetic model includes primary nucleation, secondary nucleation, elongation, fragmentation, and depolymerization steps. The effect of steady uniform shear is encoded in the depolymerization rate constant (kd), and it is shown that kd decreases with shear rate initially and saturates at high shear rates. A competition between elongation and depolymerization rates yields different equilibrium masses of fibril at different shear rates. The model results agree quantitatively well with experimental data on the rate of aggregation and mass of fibrils as a function of shear rate. The modeling framework can be used to explain the shear rate-dependent aggregation of other amyloidogenic proteins.
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- Sriram Krishnamurthy
- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, ZMBP, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
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Iida A, Abe M, Nochi M, Soga C, Unoura K, Nabika H. Promoted Aggregation of Aβ on Lipid Bilayers in an Open Flowing System. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:4453-4460. [PMID: 33955769 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Self-assembly of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides in nonequilibrium, flowing conditions is associated with pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. We examined the role of biologically relevant, nonequilibrium, flowing conditions in the desorption, diffusion, and integration of Aβ-lipid assemblies at the membrane surface using a microchannel connected with microsyringes. A 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) bilayer was formed on a glass substrate and incubated in Aβ solution under either a quiescent condition (no flow) or flowing condition for 24 h. Although dot-like aggregates (<1 μm) comprising Aβ fibrils formed on the DMPC membrane under the quiescent condition, larger plaque-like aggregates formed under the flowing condition, suggesting that nonequilibrium continuous flow governs the cytotoxicity of Aβ species. We propose that Aβ adsorption on the membrane surface involves spontaneous desorption of Aβ-lipid to form self-assembling aggregates, with this accelerated by surface shear forces. These findings suggest that nonequilibrium, flowing conditions influence inter/intra-molecular Aβ-fibril formation to trigger formation of amyloid plaques.
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- Akane Iida
- Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 1-4-12, Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 1-4-12, Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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Trumbore CN. Shear-Induced Amyloid Aggregation in the Brain: V. Are Alzheimer's and Other Amyloid Diseases Initiated in the Lower Brain and Brainstem by Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Stresses? J Alzheimers Dis 2021; 79:979-1002. [PMID: 33386802 PMCID: PMC7990457 DOI: 10.3233/jad-201025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau oligomers have been identified as neurotoxic agents responsible for causing Alzheimer's disease (AD). Clinical trials using Aβ and tau as targets have failed, giving rise to calls for new research approaches to combat AD. This paper provides such an approach. Most basic AD research has involved quiescent Aβ and tau solutions. However, studies involving laminar and extensional flow of proteins have demonstrated that mechanical agitation of proteins induces or accelerates protein aggregation. Recent MRI brain studies have revealed high energy, chaotic motion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in lower brain and brainstem regions. These and studies showing CSF flow within the brain have shown that there are two energetic hot spots. These are within the third and fourth brain ventricles and in the neighborhood of the circle of Willis blood vessel region. These two regions are also the same locations as those of the earliest Aβ and tau AD pathology. In this paper, it is proposed that cardiac systolic pulse waves that emanate from the major brain arteries in the lower brain and brainstem regions and whose pulse waves drive CSF flows within the brain are responsible for initiating AD and possibly other amyloid diseases. It is further proposed that the triggering of these diseases comes about because of the strengthening of systolic pulses due to major artery hardening that generates intense CSF extensional flow stress. Such stress provides the activation energy needed to induce conformational changes of both Aβ and tau within the lower brain and brainstem region, producing unique neurotoxic oligomer molecule conformations that induce AD.
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- Conrad N. Trumbore
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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Zhang P, Moretti M, Allione M, Tian Y, Ordonez-Loza J, Altamura D, Giannini C, Torre B, Das G, Li E, Thoroddsen ST, Sarathy SM, Autiero I, Giugni A, Gentile F, Malara N, Marini M, Di Fabrizio E. A droplet reactor on a super-hydrophobic surface allows control and characterization of amyloid fibril growth. Commun Biol 2020; 3:457. [PMID: 32820203 PMCID: PMC7441408 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01187-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Methods to produce protein amyloid fibrils, in vitro, and in situ structure characterization, are of primary importance in biology, medicine, and pharmacology. We first demonstrated the droplet on a super-hydrophobic substrate as the reactor to produce protein amyloid fibrils with real-time monitoring of the growth process by using combined light-sheet microscopy and thermal imaging. The molecular structures were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray scattering. We demonstrated that the convective flow induced by the temperature gradient of the sample is the main driving force in the growth of well-ordered protein fibrils. Particular attention was devoted to PHF6 peptide and full-length Tau441 protein to form amyloid fibrils. By a combined experimental with the molecular dynamics simulations, the conformational polymorphism of these amyloid fibrils were characterized. The study provided a feasible procedure to optimize the amyloid fibrils formation and characterizations of other types of proteins in future studies. Zhang et al present an integrated real-time imaging and flow field control platform based on water droplet evaporation on super-hydrophobic substrate (SHS) to enable amyloid fibril aggregation. They apply this methodology to observe structural polymorphism in PHF6 peptide and full length Tau441.
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- Peng Zhang
- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- High-Speed Fluids Imaging Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Clean Combustion Research Center, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Istituto di Cristallografia - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IC-CNR), Via Amendola 122/O, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IC-CNR), Via Amendola 122/O, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Khalifa University, P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
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- High-Speed Fluids Imaging Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Clean Combustion Research Center, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Molecular Horizon, Bettona, Italy.,National Research Council, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, Naples, Italy
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- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- BIONEM lab, University Magna Graecia, Campus Salvatore Venuta, Viale Europa, 88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy
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- SMILEs Lab, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Divisions, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. .,Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy.
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Despite its small size, the brain consumes 25% of the body’s energy, generating its own weight in potentially toxic proteins and biological debris each year. The brain is also the only organ lacking lymph vessels to assist in removal of interstitial waste. Over the past 50 years, a picture has been developing of the brain’s unique waste removal system. Experimental observations show cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds the brain, enters the brain along discrete pathways, crosses a barrier into the spaces between brain cells, and flushes the tissue, carrying wastes to routes exiting the brain. Dysfunction of this cerebral waste clearance system has been demonstrated in Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, diabetes, and stroke. The activity of the system is observed to increase during sleep. In addition to waste clearance, this circuit of flow may also deliver nutrients and neurotransmitters. Here, we review the relevant literature with a focus on transport processes, especially the potential role of diffusion and advective flows.
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Trumbore CN. Shear-induced amyloid formation of IDPs in the brain. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2019; 166:225-309. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2019.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Trumbore CN, Paik J, Fay D, Vachet RW. Preliminary Capillary Flow Experiments with Amyloid-β, Possible Needle and Capillary Aβ Adsorption, and a Proposal for Drug Evaluation Under Shear Conditions. J Alzheimers Dis 2019; 72:751-760. [PMID: 31640094 PMCID: PMC6918921 DOI: 10.3233/jad-190522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Amyloid-β (Aβ) solution injections into an aqueous mobile phase moving through narrow bore stainless-steel capillary tubing results in adsorption of at least 99% Aβ within the tubing or injection valve. However, if flow is stopped for a period of 5-10 minutes, then started, wall desorption yields Aβ-containing molecules in the new effluent. The amount of desorbed Aβ-containing effluent depends on flow rate, period of flow cessation, and number of successive Aβ injections into the same tube without cleaning between injections. Unexpected multiple chromatographic peaks in these experiments seem to imply "separation" of released, previously adsorbed Aβ-containing products in the empty capillary tubing. These preliminary experiments raise questions about possible errors in Alzheimer's disease (AD) spinal tap analyses, which use stainless-steel needles of approximately the same inner diameter and encounter similar flow rates as those in our capillary experiments. Microliter syringes and HPLC connectors also contain stainless-steel tubing that have similar inner diameter dimensions and similar flow rates. The capillary system involved in these experiments has previously been proposed as a model system for studying the effects of shear on Aβ within the brain because it offers a research environment that provides highly restrictive flow through very small dimension channels. A suggestion is made for the use of this system in exploratory anti-amyloid drug studies in which both the drug and Aβ are injected in the same solution so that both drug and Aβ are subjected to the same shear environment. Reduction in adsorbed Aβ is suggested as an indicator of effective anti-Aβ drugs.
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- Conrad N. Trumbore
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, MA, USA
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Trumbore CN. Shear-Induced Amyloid Formation in the Brain: IV. Effects on Synapses Surrounding Senile Plaque and in Plaque-Free Regions. J Alzheimers Dis 2018; 66:57-73. [PMID: 30223395 PMCID: PMC6294594 DOI: 10.3233/jad-171080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Amyloid-β oligomers (AβO) have been proposed as neurotoxins in the synaptic dysfunction that precedes Alzheimer's disease symptoms. Human and animal model studies report that senile plaques contain a halo of AβO molecules surrounding these plaques. A far smaller number of oligomers are distributed widely in plaque-free regions. It has been suggested that oligomers migrate from halos to nearby synapses and are incorporated into both pre- and postsynaptic terminals. These two types of oligomers have two different toxicities when extracted and injected in animal models. This paper proposes a shear-energy based explanation for the data in these studies. Shear hypotheses in the preceding three papers in this series are applied to suggest how the hydrodynamics and resulting shear patterns explain the spatial distribution of both AβO types, the apparent synapse loss in the vicinity of plaque particles, and possible reasons for the differing toxicities. A shear-based mechanism is proposed for the preferential migration of locally shear-excited Aβ molecules into the synaptic cleft. It is proposed that high energy laminar shear generated by the forced diversion of interstitial fluid around the flow-impeding plaque particle is responsible for the formation of AβOs around the plaque. It is suggested that in plaque-free regions, a different type of AβO with different toxicity is generated by lower energy shear flow around synapses, depositing AβO within the synapse from either the neuron membrane surface or by prion-like seeding within the synaptic cleft by locally-sheared Aβ molecules near the synapse entry.
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Affiliation(s)
- Conrad N. Trumbore
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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