Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2049044 | FEBS Letters | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Light chain-associated (AL) amyloidosis is characterized by dominant fibril deposition of the variable domain (VL) of an immunoglobulin light chain, and thus its constant domain (CL) has been considered not to be amyloidogenic. We examined the in vitro fibril formation of the isolated CL in comparison with β2-microglobulin (β2-m), an immunoglobulin domain-like amyloidogenic protein responsible for dialysis-related amyloidosis. Two methods useful for β2-m at neutral pH also induced amyloid fibrils of CL, which were monitored by thioflavin-T binding and electron microscopy (EM). These results suggest that CL plays an important role, more than previously assumed, in the development of AL-amyloidosis.
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Authors
Kaori Yamamoto, Hisashi Yagi, Young-Ho Lee, József Kardos, Yoshihisa Hagihara, Hironobu Naiki, Yuji Goto,