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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2013 Dec 9;426(4):921–935. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.12.002

Table 1.

Summary of biophysical properties measured for myoc-OLF samples in this study.

Secondary
Structure Tm ( °C)
Tertiary
Structure
Tm ( °C)
ANS Fl. ΔFThT/Foa Fibril
Growth t1/2
(hrs)
Fibril
Morphology
Wild-type
myoc-OLF
pH 7.2 51.5 ± 0.1 48.9 ± 0.6 0.9 ± 0.5 2.4 ----
70.6b 2.0 Straight
pH 5.8 52.7 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.4 1.1 ± 0.7 −0.4 ----
pH 4.6 48.7 ± 0.1 46.0 ± 0.3 10.6 ± 0.4 2.3 ----
pH 3.4 34.0 ± 0.6 29.0 ± 1.3 181.5 ± 2.3 79.8 0.4 ± 0.2 Long,
straight
pH 2 N/A N/A 298.3 ± 6.9 −1.7 ----
pH 7.2/NaCl 52.2 ± 0.6 50.9 ± 0.2 1.1 ± 1.1 −0.7
89.4b 27.7 ± 2.6 Circular
pH 5.8/NaCl 54.0 ± 0.1 52.8 ± 0.3 1.4 ± 1.4 −0.5 ----
pH 4.6/NaCl 46.4 ± 0.1 43.1 ± 0.2 4.5 ± 2.3 −0.5 9.5 ± 3.9 Long,
straight
pH 3.4/NaCl N/A N/A 234.7 ± 3.9 21.5 ----
pH 2/NaCl N/A N/A 346.8 ± 24.0 16.0 ----
Myoc-OLF
variants
I499F 45.0 ± 1.1 43.2 ± 0.5 3.4 ± 1.1 88.0 3.5 ± 0.2 Straight
fibrils and
oligomers
D380A 46.8 ± 0.1 44.4 ± 0.6 2.1 ± 0.4 102.2 11.9 ± 4.7 Circular
A427T 48.9 ± 0.1 45.9 ± 0.2 1.3 ± 0.1 28.5 >25c Straight
fibrils and
oligomers
K398R 51.1 ± 0.4 49.5 ± 2.4 0.6 ± 0.2 −0.7 ----

Bold: Fibrillar structures confirmed by AFM.

N/A: Not available because secondary structure is already disordered at 4 °C.

a

ThT fluorescence recorded after incubation for 18 h (no salt) or 50 h (200mM NaCl) at 36 °C.

b

ThT fluorescence recorded after incubation for 18 h (no salt) or 90 h (200mM NaCl) at 42 °C.

c

Steady-state maximum not reached by termination of experiment at 50 h.