Figure 1.
Rotenone accelerates α-syn aggregation by reducing lag phase. Kinetics of α-syn fibrilization (a) and oligomerization (b) induced by varying concentration of rotenone(ROT) (as shown α-syn:ROT ratios). The fluorescence intensity of thioflavin-T upon binding to misfolded and aggregated α-syn was measured for kinetic analysis. The start of exponential rise in ThT binding counted as lag phase from the fibril kinetics curves of 1a (c). Dynamic light scattering (DLS) for hydrodynamic radii analysis of α-syn monomer, oligomers and fibrils in the absence (α-syn, d) and presence of rotenone (α-syn + ROT, e). Structural morphology of the oligomers and fibrils (O, F) and rotenone induced fibrils at 1:5 ratio of α-syn:ROT (FR) was analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (f). The fibrils and oligomers were prepared at agitating and static conditions respectively as described in material and methods. (Supplementary information: Table S1, Fig. S1a–c).
