Effect of amino acid mutations on the conformational dynamics of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light-chains: A combined NMR and in silico study



Mukherjee, S, Pondaven, SP, Hand, K, Madine, J ORCID: 0000-0001-9963-5871 and Jaroniec, CP
(2017) Effect of amino acid mutations on the conformational dynamics of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light-chains: A combined NMR and in silico study. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). 10339-.

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Abstract

The conformational dynamics of a pathogenic κ4 human immunoglobulin light-chain variable domain, SMA, associated with AL amyloidosis, were investigated by 15N relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy. Compared to a homologous light-chain, LEN, which differs from SMA at eight positions but is non-amyloidogenic in vivo, we find that multiple residues in SMA clustered around the N-terminus and CDR loops experience considerable conformational exchange broadening caused by millisecond timescale protein motions, consistent with a destabilized dimer interface. To evaluate the contribution of each amino acid substitution to shaping the dynamic conformational landscape of SMA, NMR studies were performed for each SMA-like point mutant of LEN followed by in silico analysis for a subset of these proteins. These studies show that a combination of only three mutations located within or directly adjacent to CDR3 loop at the dimer interface, which remarkably include both destabilizing (Q89H and Y96Q) and stabilizing (T94H) mutations, largely accounts for the differences in conformational flexibility between LEN and SMA. Collectively, our studies indicate that a correct combination of stabilizing and destabilizing mutations is key for immunoglobulin light-chains populating unfolded intermediates that result in amyloid formation, and underscore the complex nature of correlations between light-chain conformational flexibility, thermodynamic stability and amyloidogenicity.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Humans, Circular Dichroism, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Amino Acid Substitution, Protein Conformation, Protein Binding, Structure-Activity Relationship, Mutation, Models, Molecular, Immunoglobulin Light Chains, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Aggregates, Protein Aggregation, Pathological
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 04 Sep 2017 15:13
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:56
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10906-w
Open Access URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10906-w...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009297