Interaction of α-Synuclein with Negatively Charged Lipid Membranes Monitored by Surface Plasmon Resonance
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Aggregation of presynaptic protein α-synuclein is implicated in the development of Parkinson’s disease. Interaction of α-synuclein with lipid membranes appears to be critical for its physiological and pathological roles. Anionic lipids trigger conformational transition of αsynuclein from its natively disordered into an α-helical structure. Here we used surface plasmon resonance (SPR) to determine the affinities of α-synuclein for the small unilamellar vesicles composed of anionic 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-L-serine (POPS) or 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoglycerol (DPPG) and neutral 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) lipids. α-Synuclein bound in a concentration dependent manner to equimolar mixtures of POPC/POPS and POPC/DPPG vesicles. The affinity of α-synuclein for POPC/POPS was ~3-fold higher than for POPC/DPPG. These results indicate that headgroup charge is not the only factor contributing to α-synuclein-membrane association.
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