Single-Particle Analysis of the Interaction Between Molecules and Protein Aggregated Species by Dual-Color Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

Methods Mol Biol

Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Published: November 2022

Amyloid protein aggregation is widely involved in a number of neurodegenerative diseases for which novel therapeutic and diagnostic strategies are still needed. Owing to the complex and heterogeneous nature of the aggregated species responsible for toxicity in these disorders, a detailed characterization of the interaction of molecules of interest with the amyloid aggregates is a challenging endeavor. Here, we present the experimental and analytical steps of a protocol which combines dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy and dual-color single-particle fluorescence spectroscopy to quantify the binding affinity and stoichiometry of an inhibitor of α-synuclein amyloid aggregation. This approach allows studying the interaction in detail and through two independent analytical methods, thus yielding a remarkably robust tool that could be extended to investigating the interaction of molecules of interest to other pathogenic protein aggregates as well as multi-ligand/multi-receptor complexes.

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