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Expression, purification and characterisation of large quantities of recombinant human IAPP for mechanistic studies
Biophys Chem. 2021 Feb;269:106511. doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2020.106511.
Martin Lundqvist 1, Diana C Rodriguez Camargo 2, Katja Bernfur 1, Sean Chia 3, Sara Linse 4
Abstract:
Malfunction and amyloid formation of the Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) are factors contributing to Type 2 diabetes. Unravelling the mechanism of IAPP aggregate formation may forward our understanding of this process and its effect on pancreatic β-islet cell. Such mechanistic studies require access to sequence homogeneous and highly pure IAPP. Here we present a new facile protocol for the production of pure recombinant human IAPP at relatively high yield. The protocol uses a His-tagged version of the Npro mutant EDDIE, which drives expression to inclusion bodies, from which the peptide is purified using sonication, refolding and auto-cleavage, removal of EDDIE using Ni-NTA chromatography and reverse-phase HPLC. The purified material is used at multiple concentrations in aggregation kinetics measurements monitored by thioflavin-T fluorescence. Global analysis of the data implies a double nucleation aggregation mechanism including both primary and secondary nucleation.
PMID: 33360112
Tags: IAPP, methods, type 2 diabetes