Synthetic and Biophysical Studies on the Toxic Conformer in Amyloid β with the E22Δ Mutation in Alzheimer Pathology.

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The toxic conformer of the 40- or 42-mer-amyloid β-proteins (Aβ) (Aβ40, Aβ42) with a turn at positions 22 and 23 plays a role in oligomer formation, leading to neurotoxicity as part of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A deletion mutant at Glu22 (E22Δ) of Aβ, known as an Osaka mutation, accelerates oligomerization. Although E22Δ-Aβ has not been found to be toxic to cultured neuronal cells and is...

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