Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Plasmin activity promotes amyloid deposition in a transgenic model of human transthyretin amyloidosis

  • Ivana Slamova,
  • Rozita Adib,
  • Stephan Ellmerich,
  • Michal R. Golos,
  • Janet A. Gilbertson,
  • Nicola Botcher,
  • Diana Canetti,
  • Graham W. Taylor,
  • Nigel Rendell,
  • Glenys A. Tennent,
  • Guglielmo Verona,
  • Riccardo Porcari,
  • P. Patrizia Mangione,
  • Julian D. Gillmore,
  • Mark B. Pepys,
  • Vittorio Bellotti,
  • Philip N. Hawkins,
  • Raya Al-Shawi,
  • J. Paul Simons

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27416-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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ATTR amyloidosis causes heart failure through the accumulation of misfolded transthyretin in cardiac muscle. Here the authors report a mouse model of ATTR amyloidosis and demonstrate the involvement of protease activity in ATTR amyloid deposition.