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Motivated by the role that amylin aggregates play in type-II diabetes, we compare the stability of regular amylin fibrils with the stability of fibrils where l-amino acid chains are replaced by d-retro inverso (DRI) amylin, that is, peptides where the sequence of amino acids is reversed, and at the same time, the l-amino acids are replaced by their mirror images. Our molecular dynamics simulations show that despite leading to only a marginal difference in the fibril structure and stability, aggregating DRI-amylin peptides have different patterns of contacts and hydrogen bonding. Because of these differences, DRI-amylin, when interacting with regular (l) amylin, alters the elongation process and lowers the stability of hybrid amylin fibrils. Our results not only suggest the potential use of DRI-amylin as an inhibitor of amylin fibril formation but also point to the possibility of using the insertion of DRI proteins in l-assemblies as a way to probe the role of certain kinds of hydrogen bonds in supramolecular assemblies or aggregates.
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