Amyloid Fibril Models

coordinates and illustrations

Jacques Philippe Colletier, Arthur Laganowsky, Angela Soriaga, Minglei Zhao, Meytal Landau, Lukasz Goldschmidt, David Flot, Duilio Cascio, Kanagalaghatta Rajashankar, Igor Kourinov, Shilpa Sambahivan, Rebecca Nelson, Magdalena Ivanova, Michael R. Sawaya, Stuart Sievers, Michael J. Thompson, Melinda Balbirnie, Marcin Apostol, Jed Wiltzius, Heather McFarlane, Anders O. Madsen, Christian Riekel, David Eisenberg.


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Alpha-synuclein
(residues 42-83, with a homotypic interface compsed of residues 65-80)

partial pitch length

Structure of the toxic core of α-synuclein from invisible crystals Rodriguez JA, Ivanova MI, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Reyes FE, Shi D, Sangwan S, Guenther EL, Johnson LM, Zhang M, Jiang L, Arbing MA, Nannenga BL, Hattne J, Whitelegge J, Brewster AS, Messerschmidt M, Boutet S, Sauter NK, Gonen T, Eisenberg DS. Nature. 2015 Sep 24;525(7570):486-90.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 9-42, with a homotypic interface compsed of residues 30-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 9-42, Iowa mutant)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 11-25)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 16-35)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 22-35)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(residues 30-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Riek hairpin with interface at residues 16-21)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Riek hairpin with interface at residues 35-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 16-21 and 27-32)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 16-21 and 35-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 27-32 and 16-21)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 27-32 and 35-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 35-42 and 16-21)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 35-42 and 27-32)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with interfaces at residues 16-21)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with an interface at residues 27-32)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Amyloid-Beta
(Tycko hairpin with an interface at residues 35-42)

partial pitch length

Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism. Colletier JP, Laganowsky A, Landau M, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Goldschmidt L, Flot D, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):16938-43.
Insulin
(human)
asymmetric unit
partial pitch length
full pitch length
morph between globular and fibrilar insulin
Islet Amyloid Polypeptide
(human)
asymmetric unit
partial pitch length

Atomic structure of the cross-beta spine of islet amyloid polypeptide (amylin). Wiltzius JJ, Sievers SA, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Popov D, Riekel C, Eisenberg D. Protein Sci.
2008 Sep;17(9):1467-74
RNase
(bovine, engineered)
asymmetric unit
partial pitch length
full pitch length
Amyloid-like fibrils of ribonuclease A with three-dimensional domain-swapped and native-like structure. Sambashivan S, Liu Y, Sawaya MR, Gingery M, Eisenberg D. Nature.
2005 Sep 8;437(7056):266-9.
beta2 microglobulin
(human)
asymmetric unit
partial pitch length
full pitch length plus
An amyloid-forming segment of beta2-microglobulin suggests a molecular model for the fibril. Ivanova MI, Sawaya MR, Gingery M, Attinger A, Eisenberg D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2004 Jul 20;101(29):10584-9.
Prion Protein
(human)
asymmetric unit
partial pitch length
full pitch length
Seeded conversion of recombinant prion protein to a disulfide-bonded oligomer by a reduction-oxidation process. Lee S, Eisenberg D. Nat Struct Biol.
2003 Sep;10(9):725-30.