The mechanism of tissue selectivity, i. While these monomers can form a functional tetramer they are highly aggregation prone and have provided a useful model to examine the process of aggregation and fibril formation. Based on observations in mice carrying many copies of the wild type human TTR gene with all the known elements required for tissue specific expression, it appears that neurons regulate TTR production quite tightly, perhaps precluding the possibility of local TTR aggregation and oligomer formation even while systemic amyloid deposition of liver synthesized TTR goes on Buxbaum et al. If small molecules can be identified which specifically induce neuronal TTR or BRICHOS- containing domain synthesis and can cross the blood brain barrier after systemic administration, they might be able to slow or arrest the progression of neurodegeneration. A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia. TTR is a non-disulfide linked homo-tetramer in which the mature polypeptide monomer, after cleavage of the leader sequence, contains amino acids. 
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A mutation in the surfactant protein C gene associated with familial interstitial lung disease. Prediction of amyloid fibril-forming proteins. Inherited surfactant protein-B deficiency and surfactant protein-C associated disease: Life on the edge: Systemic gene delivery to the central nervous system using Adeno-associated virus.
The salutary effects of two such genes TTR and ITMB2 were quite unexpected since by themselves both protein products were clearly amyloidogenic and responsible for distinct forms of clinically relevant human amyloidosis.
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Amyloid deposits in transthyretin-derived amyloidosis: A novel surfactant protein C gene mutation associated with progressive respiratory failure in infancy. First clinical data of the neuroprotective effects of nasal insulin application in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Amyloidogenic protein variants causing the autosomal dominant clinical disorders Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy brichow sensori-motor and autonomic polyneuropathy and Familial Amyloidotic Cardiomyopathy have been found in 77 of the amino acids in the protein Figure 5.
Experimental support for both theories can be found. A synthetic surfactant based on a poly-Leu SP-C analog and phospholipids: Amyloidogenic and non-amyloidogenic transthyretin variants interact differently with human cardiomyocytes: In recent years with the ability to make large amounts of recombinant proteins from virtually any source, it has been noted that many proteins unrelated to disease will form fibrils under amyloid forming conditions and generate oligomeric species that are cytotoxic in vitro Bucciantini et al.
Expression of BRI, the normal precursor of the amyloid protein of familial British dementia, in human brain.
BRICHOS: a conserved domain in proteins associated with dementia, respiratory distress and cancer.
Kinetic analysis reveals the diversity of microscopic mechanisms through which molecular chaperones suppress amyloid formation. Lewy body-like pathology in long-term embryonic nigral transplants i Parkinson's disease.
An engineered transthyretin monomer that is nonamyloidogenic, unless it is partially denatured. Functional amyloid formation within mammalian tissue. The FDD mutation is different and leads to a nucleotide duplication, causing a frame shift replacing the stop codon of Bri2, extending the peptide to another 34 residue peptide, ADan. The Amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease at 25 years. Maturation of BRI2 generates a specific inhibitor that reduces APP processing at the plasma membrane and in endocytic vesicles.
However, it is likely for TTR at least, that human neurons may already be utilizing this molecule as a bricuos of neuronal integrity in the face of proteotoxic and perhaps other forms of cellular stress.
Structural requirements for intracellular targeting of SP-C proprotein.
Functional amyloids as natural storage of peptide hormoes in pituitary secretory granules. Moreover ADAM10 processing is not sequence specific but rather occurs at specific distances from the plasma membrane Sisodia, Assignment of the prealbumin PALB gene familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy to human chromosome region brifhos.
M-TTR primarily binds oligomers. Modifications of transthyretin in amyloid fibrils: Protein misfolding, evolution and disease.
Bri2 is produced bricchos several peripheral tissues and in the brain, with significant expression in neurons of the hippocampus and cerebellum in humans Vidal et al. Online registry for mutations in hereditary amyloidosis including nomenclature recommendations. In humans, while many of the amyloidoses are systemic in distribution, a disproportionate number are represented in the neurodegenerative diseases associated with aging.
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Introduction The amyloidoses are a set of human diseases and their animal models in which the precursors, synthesized as soluble proteins, aggregate and become insoluble under physiologic conditions. Despite extensive screening of human populations there have been no reports of a complete absence of a functional TTR protein. In humans, generally only one of the RBP binding sites is occupied. Since the tetramer is far and away the most prevalent form of TTR in vivo it is likely that this represents a significant component of its protective effect in the mouse models.
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