All-or-none amyloid disassembly via chaperone-triggered fibril unzipping favors clearance of α-synuclein toxic species

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Abstract

α-synuclein aggregation is present in Parkinson’s disease and other neuropathologies. Among the assemblies that populate the amyloid formation process, oligomers and short fibrils are the most cytotoxic. The human Hsc70-based disaggregase system can resolve α-synuclein fibrils, but its ability to target other toxic assemblies has not been studied. Here, we show that this chaperone system preferentially dis-aggregates toxic oligomers and short fibrils, while its activity against large, less toxic amyloids is severely impaired. Biochemical and kinetic characterization of the disassembly process reveals that this behavior is the result of an all-or-none abrupt solubilization of individual aggregates. High-speed atomic force microscopy explicitly shows that disassembly starts with the destabilization of the tips and rapidly progresses to completion through protofilament unzipping and depolymerization without accumulation of harmful oligomeric intermediates. Our data provide molecular insights into the selective processing of toxic amyloids, which is critical to identify potential therapeutic targets against increasingly prevalent neurodegenerative disorders.

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Franco, A., Gracia, P., Colom, A., Camino, J. D., Fernández-Higuero, J. Á., Orozco, N., … Muga, A. (2021). All-or-none amyloid disassembly via chaperone-triggered fibril unzipping favors clearance of α-synuclein toxic species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(36). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105548118

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