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<strong>Proceedings</strong> of the 31 st European Peptide SymposiumMichal Lebl, Morten Meldal, Knud J. Jensen, Thomas Hoeg-Jensen (Editors)European Peptide Society, 2010NMR-Based Conformational Studies of the C-TerminalHeptadecapeptide(101-117) of Human Cystatin CMartyna Maszota, Paulina Czaplewska, Anna Śladewska,Marta Spodzieja, and Jerzy CiarkowskiFaculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, 80-952, PolandIntroductionHuman cystatin C (hCC) is a small (13 kDa, 120 amino acid residues) protein inhibitor ofcysteine proteases [1]. It is the most widespread cystatin in mammalian body fluids. hCC isinvolved in various diseases including the Alzheimer's disease; it binds amyloid β (Aβ) andreduces its aggregationand deposition [2].Recent in vitro epitopeextraction/excision massspectrometry studies includingAβ and hCCrevealed that the C-terminalheptadecapeptideof the latter, hCC(101-117) is the minimalAβ-binding epitopeof hCC [3]. NMR-basedconformational studiesof hCC (101-117) willhelp to understandoligomerization of hCC,possibly including itsFig. 1. Left – fingerprint region of a TOCSY spectrum; Right –the NH-Hα region of TOCSY (black) and NOESY (grey) withindicated connectivities.self-aggregation andinteractions with Aβand, in the next step,design the new potentialinhibitors of hCC oligomerization.Results and DiscussionComplete assignment of the proton spectra of hCC(101-117) was achieved according to theFig. 2. The backbone represents the final 300 structures; the side-chains represent theaveraged conformation of hCC(101-117).594

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