Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Disease-relevant β2-microglobulin variants share a common amyloid fold

  • Martin Wilkinson,
  • Rodrigo U. Gallardo,
  • Roberto Maya Martinez,
  • Nicolas Guthertz,
  • Masatomo So,
  • Liam D. Aubrey,
  • Sheena E. Radford,
  • Neil A. Ranson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36791-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The authors use cryo-EM to determine amyloid fibrils structures of disease relevant variants of β2-microglobulin in vitro. Each variant is polymorphic, but all polymorphs from all samples are built from a a lego-like assembly of common building blocks, suggesting a one amyloid fold’ paradigm.