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    Prion protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils is associated with the onset and progression of prion diseases-a group of neurodegenerative amyloidoses. The process of such aggregate formation is still not fully understood, especially regarding their polymorphism, an event where the same type of protein forms multiple, conformationally and morphologically distinct structures. Considering that such structural variations can greatly complicate the search for potential antiamyloid compounds, either by having specific propagation properties or stability, it is important to better understand this aggregation event. We have recently reported the ability of prion protein fibrils to obtain at least two distinct conformations under identical conditions, which raised the question if this occurrence is tied to only certain environmental conditions. In this work, we examined a large sample size of prion protein aggregation reactions under a range of temperatures and analyzed the resulting fibril dye-binding, secondary structure and morphological properties. We show that all temperature conditions lead to the formation of more than one fibril type and that this variability may depend on the state of the initial prion protein molecules.

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    Mantas Ziaunys, Andrius Sakalauskas, Kamile Mikalauskaite, Ruta Snieckute, Vytautas Smirnovas. Temperature-Dependent Structural Variability of Prion Protein Amyloid Fibrils. International journal of molecular sciences. 2021 May 11;22(10)

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