Tavanti, F.; Pedone, A.; Menziani, M.C. Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils. Molecules2018, 23, 1320.
Tavanti, F.; Pedone, A.; Menziani, M.C. Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils. Molecules 2018, 23, 1320.
Tavanti, F.; Pedone, A.; Menziani, M.C. Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils. Molecules2018, 23, 1320.
Tavanti, F.; Pedone, A.; Menziani, M.C. Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1–40) Fibrils. Molecules 2018, 23, 1320.
Abstract
One of the principal hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is related to the aggregation of amyloid-β fibrils in an insoluble form in the brain, also known as amyloidosis. Therefore, a prominent therapeutic strategy against AD consists either in blocking the amyloid aggregation and/or destroying the already formed aggregates. Natural products have shown significant therapeutic potential as amyloid inhibitors from in vitro studies as well as in vivo animal tests. In this study, the interaction of five natural biophenols (curcumin, dopamine, (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate, Quercetin, and Rosmarinic acid) with the amyloid-β(1-40) fibrils has been studied through computational simulations. The results allowed the identification and characterization of the different binding modalities of each compounds and their consequences on fibril dynamics and aggregation. It emerges that the lateral aggregation of the fibrils is strongly influenced by the intercalation of the ligands, which modulate the double-layered structure stability.
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