Investigation of the effects of two major secretory granules components, insulin and zinc, on human-IAPP amyloid aggregation and membrane damage

•Importance of residue-18 in hIAPP self-assembly in the presence of insulin.•Insulin slightly decreases the rate of hIAPP-membrane damage.•Insulin slightly decreases hIAPP fibril formation in the membrane independent of the nature of residue-18.•In solution, zinc enhances helical and anti-parallel β...

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Published in:Chemistry and physics of lipids 2021-07, Vol.237, p.105083-105083, Article 105083
Main Authors: Khemtemourian, Lucie, Antoniciello, Federico, Sahoo, Bikash R., Decossas, Marion, Lecomte, Sophie, Ramamoorthy, Ayyalusamy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggregation
Amylin
Amyloid
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
Biophysics
Islet amyloid polypeptide
Life Sciences
Membrane leakage
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Summary:•Importance of residue-18 in hIAPP self-assembly in the presence of insulin.•Insulin slightly decreases the rate of hIAPP-membrane damage.•Insulin slightly decreases hIAPP fibril formation in the membrane independent of the nature of residue-18.•In solution, zinc enhances helical and anti-parallel β-sheet structures for H18R-IAPP and hIAPP, respectively.•The presence of zinc does not modify IAPP induced membrane damage. Human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) is a highly amyloidogenic peptide found in pancreatic islets of type-2 diabetes (T2D) patients. Under certain conditions, hIAPP is able to form amyloid fibrils that play a role in the progression of T2D. hIAPP is synthesized in the β-cell of the pancreas and stored in the secretory granules before being released into the extracellular compartment. It has been suggested that natural stabilizing agents, such as insulin or zinc present in the secretory granules with hIAPP could prevent hIAPP fibril formation. The difference in the amino acid sequences of IAPP among species strongly correlates with amyloidogenicity and toxicity. The residue histidine at position 18 is known to be important in modulating the fibril formation, membrane leakage and toxicity. In this study, we have synthesized four analogues of hIAPP (H18R-IAPP, H18K-IAPP, H18A-IAPP and H18E-IAPP) and characterized their aggregation with either insulin or zinc in order to determine the effect of the residue-18 on the insulin-IAPP and zinc-IAPP interactions using a variety of biophysical experiments including thioflavin-T fluorescence, transmission electron microscopy imaging, circular dichroism, and NMR spectroscopy. We show that insulin reduced hIAPP fibril formation both in solution and in the presence of membrane and hIAPP-membrane damage and that the interactions are somewhat mediated by the residue-18. In addition, our results reveal that zinc affects the process of hIAPP fibril formation in solution but not in the presence of membrane. Our results indicate that the nature of the residue-18 is important for zinc binding. Based on this observation, we hypothesize that zinc binds to the residues in the N-terminal region of hIAPP, which is not accessible in the presence of membrane due to its strong interaction with lipids.
ISSN:0009-3084
1873-2941
DOI:10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2021.105083