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Gelsolin amyloidosis (AGel) is characterized by multiple systemic and ophthalmic features resulting from pathological tissue deposition of the gelsolin (GSN) protein. To date, no cure is available for the treatment of any form of AGel. More than ten single-point substitutions in the GSN gene are responsible for the occurrence of the disease and, among them, D187N/Y is the most widespread variant. These substitutions undergo an aberrant proteolytic cascade, producing aggregation-prone peptides of 5 and 8 kDa, containing the Gelsolin Amyloidogenic Core, spanning residues 182–192 (GAC182–192). Following a structure-based approach, we designed and synthesized three novel sequence-specific peptidomimetics (LB-5, LB-6, and LB-7) built on a piperidine-pyrrolidine unnatural amino acid. LB-5 and LB-6, but not LB-7, efficiently inhibit the aggregation of the GAC182–192 amyloidogenic peptides at sub-stoichiometric concentrations. These peptidomimetics resulted also effective in vivo, in a C. elegans-based assay, in counteracting the proteotoxicity of aggregated GAC182–192. These data pave the way to a novel pharmacological strategy against AGel and also validate a toolbox exploitable in other amyloidogenic diseases.
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amyloidosis, Amyloid, amyloidosis; aggregation; peptidomimetics; gelsolin; C; elegans, gelsolin, aggregation, Amyloidogenic Proteins, Amyloidosis, amyloidosis; aggregation; peptidomimetics; gelsolin; <i>C. elegans</i>, Article, peptidomimetics, C. elegans, Animals, Peptidomimetics, Caenorhabditis elegans, Peptides, Amyloidosis, Familial, C. elegans; aggregation; amyloidosis; gelsolin; peptidomimetics, Gelsolin
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