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AUTHOR
Kristīne Kitoka
High-yield Production of Amyloid-β Peptide Enabled by a Customized Spider Silk Domain
AbstractDuring storage in the silk gland, the N-terminal domain (NT) of spider silk proteins (spidroins) keeps the aggregation-prone repetitive region in solution at extreme concentrations. We observe that NTs from different spidroins have co-evolved with their respective repeat region, and now use an NT that is distantly related to previously used NTs, for efficient recombinant production of the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. A designed variant of NT from Nephila clavipes flagelliform spidroin, which in nature allows production and storage of β-hairpin repeat segments, gives exceptionally high yields of different human Aβ variants as a solubility tag. This tool e…
Amiloīda-beta 42 peptīda agregācijas pētījumi ar 19F KMR spektroskopiju
Maģistra darba literatūras apskatā apkopota vispārīga informācija par amiloīda-beta peptīdiem, to agregāciju un tās pētīšanas metodēm. Maģistra darbā eksperimentālajā daļā izstrādātas metodes fluorēto aminoskābju inkorporēšanai amiloīda-beta 42 peptīdā, un veikti fluorēto peptīdu KMR eksperimenti.