Poster Presentation 23rd International Society of Magnetic Resonance Conference 2023

Sodium oligomannate electrostatically binds to Aβ and blocks its aggregation (#224)

Chen Zhou 1 , Jingjing Zhang 1 , Xinwen Luo 1 , Fulin Lian 1 , Yangyang Zeng 2 , Zhenqing Zhang 3 , Li Shi 1 , Haiyan Zhang 1 , Naixia Zhang 1
  1. Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhangjiang, SHANGHAI, China
  2. Green Valley (Shanghai) Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Shanghai, Shanghai
  3. School of Pharmaceutical Science, Soochow University, Su Zhou

GV-971 (sodium oligomannate) is a China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA)-approved drug for treating Alzheimer’s disease, and it could inhibit Aβ fibril formation in vitro and in mouse studies. To elucidate the mechanisms for understanding how GV-971 modulates Aβ’s aggregation, we conducted a systematic biochemical and biophysical study of Aβ40/Aβ42:GV-971 systems. The integrating analysis of previously published data and our results suggests that the multisite electrostatic interactions between GV-971’s carboxylic groups and Aβ40/Aβ42’s three histidine residues might play a dominant role in driving the binding of GV-971 to Aβ. The fuzzy-type electrostatic interactions between GV-971 and Aβ are expected to protect Aβ from aggregation potentially through breaking the histidine-mediated inter-Aβ electrostatic interactions. Meanwhile, since GV-971’s binding exhibited a slight downregulation effect on the flexibility of Aβ’s histidine-colonized fragment, which potentially favors Aβ aggregation, we conclude that the dynamics alteration plays a minor role in GV-971’s modulation on Aβ aggregation.