Moderate Binding between Two SARS-CoV-2 Protein Segments and alpha-Synuclein Alters Its Toxic Oligomerization Propensity Differently
The journal of physical chemistry letters(2022)
摘要
The neurological symptoms of long COVID and viral neuroinvasion have raised concerns about the potential interactions between SARS-CoV-2 protein segments and neuronal proteins, which might confer a risk of post-infection neurodegeneration, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we reported that the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein and the nine-residue segment (SK9) of the envelope protein could bind to alpha- synuclein (alpha Syn) with Kd values of 503 +/- 24 nM and 12.7 +/- 1.6 mu M, respectively. RBD could inhibit alpha Syn fibrillization by blocking the non-amyloid-beta component region and mediating its antiparallel beta-sheet structural conversions. Omicron-RBD (BA.5) was shown to have a slightly stronger affinity for alpha Syn (Kd = 235 +/- 10 nM), which implies similar effects, whereas SK9 may bind to the C-terminus which accelerates the formation of parallel beta-sheet-containing oligomers and abruptly increases the rate of membrane disruption by 213%. Our results provide plausible molecular insights into the impact of SARS-CoV-2 post-infection and the oligomerization propensity of alpha Syn that is associated with Parkinson's disease.
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