With strand b2 extending further into the `amyloidogenic segment’ consisting of SC-66 custom synthesis residues S20 through S29 [27,28]. Protection is less consistent with an alternative model derived from EPR data [11]. Strand b1 shows less extensive protection than b2, an observation that appears to be related to the supra58-49-1 custom synthesis Molecular packing of b-sheets, with strand b2 buried in the center of the protofilament structure and b1 exposed on the surface. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on the ssNMR model of amylin fibrils, are used to test the hypothesis that increased motional flexibility accounts for the decreased amide proton protection observed for 
strand b1.observed when the lyophilized supernatant or the lyophilized fibrils were resuspended in H2O. This indicated that negligible amounts of monomeric amylin remained in the supernatant, and that species with molecular weights detectable by NMR did not dissociate from the fibrils during lyophilization. (3) In marked contrast, NMR signals were detected when the experiment was repeated, and the lyophilized pellet was taken up in 95 DMSO/ 5 DCA rather than water. The 95 DMSO solvent is able to dissolve fibrils to unfolded amylin monomers, giving a twodimensional (2D) 1H-15N HSQC spectrum and 15N-edited 1D spectrum (Figure S3) comparable to that obtained when unfibrillized amylin is dissolved in 95 DMSO. It has been previously reported that amylin fibrils are insoluble in DMSO [28,30]. Unlike the naturally occurring hormone the 15N-labeled amylin used in this 1662274 work is not amidated at its C-terminus, which may increase the solubility of fibrils in DMSO. A second important difference is that the fibrils used in this work were prepared from a pure preparation of amylin, whereas in the previous study [30] amylin fibrils were isolated from a pancreatic tumor where they may have been associated with cofactors [31] that could affect stability and solubility in DMSO.Materials and Methods MaterialsRecombinant 15N-amylin was purchased as a lyophilized powder from rPeptide (Bogart, GA). The peptide was expressed in Escherichia coli and has an intact C2 7 disulfide bond but differs from human amylin by not having an amidated C-terminus, which is an enzymatic post-translational modification in mature human amylin [4]. D2O (isotope purity .99.96 ) and DMSO-d6 (99.96 ) were from CIL (Andover, MA). Dichloroacetic acid (DCA) was from Aldrich (St. Louis, MO) and deuterated dichloroacetic acid: Cl2CDCO2D, 99.7 (d2-DCA) was from CDN Isotopes (Point-Claire, Quebec, Canada).Amylin Fibrillization and Quenched Hydrogen Exchange ExperimentsA 1.4 mg sample of 15N-amyin was dissolved in 140 ml of acetonitrile to disrupt any preexisting aggregates, and taken up in 1.26 ml of 20 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4. The resulting amylin concentration for fibrillization was 23388095 250 mM. The final concentration of acetonitrile in the fibrillization buffer was 10 (v/v). A concentration of 0.02 NaN3 (w/v) was added to prevent bacterial growth during fibrillization. Following dissolution, the solution was sonicated continuously for 1 minute at 75 power to break up any potential aggregates. To form fibrils, the sample was incubated at 37uC without agitation in a low-retention Eppendorf tube for 116 h (,5 days). Fibrils were collected by sedimentation for 45 min at 15,000 g in an Eppendorf desktop micro-centrifuge. The pellet of approximately 40 ml volume was resuspended in 1.24 ml of 99.96 D2O and the pH of the suspension was determined.With strand b2 extending further into the `amyloidogenic segment’ consisting of residues S20 through S29 [27,28]. Protection is less consistent with an alternative model derived from EPR data [11]. Strand b1 shows less extensive protection than b2, an observation that appears to be related to the supramolecular packing of b-sheets, with strand b2 buried in the center of the protofilament structure and b1 exposed on the surface. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on the ssNMR model of amylin fibrils, are used to test the hypothesis that increased motional flexibility accounts for the decreased amide proton protection observed for strand b1.observed when the lyophilized supernatant or the lyophilized fibrils were resuspended in H2O. This indicated that negligible amounts of monomeric amylin remained in the supernatant, and that species with molecular weights detectable by NMR did not dissociate from the fibrils during lyophilization. (3) In marked contrast, NMR signals were detected when the experiment was repeated, and the lyophilized pellet was taken up in 95 DMSO/ 5 DCA rather than water. The 95 DMSO solvent is able to dissolve fibrils to unfolded amylin monomers, giving a twodimensional (2D) 1H-15N HSQC spectrum and 15N-edited 1D spectrum (Figure S3) comparable to that obtained when unfibrillized amylin is dissolved in 95 DMSO. It has been previously reported that amylin fibrils are insoluble in DMSO [28,30]. Unlike the naturally occurring hormone the 15N-labeled amylin used in this 1662274 work is not amidated at its C-terminus, which may increase the solubility of fibrils in DMSO. A second important difference is that the fibrils used in this work were prepared from a pure preparation of amylin, whereas in the previous study [30] amylin fibrils were isolated from a pancreatic tumor where they may have been associated with cofactors [31] that could affect stability and solubility in DMSO.Materials and Methods MaterialsRecombinant 15N-amylin was purchased as a lyophilized powder from rPeptide (Bogart, GA). The peptide was expressed in Escherichia coli and has an intact C2 7 disulfide bond but differs from human amylin by not having an amidated C-terminus, which is an enzymatic post-translational modification in mature human amylin [4]. D2O (isotope purity .99.96 ) and DMSO-d6 (99.96 ) were from CIL (Andover, MA). Dichloroacetic acid (DCA) was from Aldrich (St. Louis, MO) and deuterated dichloroacetic acid: Cl2CDCO2D, 99.7 (d2-DCA) was from CDN Isotopes (Point-Claire, Quebec, Canada).Amylin Fibrillization and Quenched Hydrogen Exchange ExperimentsA 1.4 mg sample of 15N-amyin was dissolved in 140 ml of acetonitrile to disrupt any preexisting aggregates, and taken up in 1.26 ml of 20 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4. The resulting amylin concentration for fibrillization was 23388095 250 mM. The final concentration of acetonitrile in the fibrillization buffer was 10 (v/v). A concentration of 0.02 NaN3 (w/v) was added to prevent bacterial growth during fibrillization. Following dissolution, the solution was sonicated continuously 
for 1 minute at 75 power to break up any potential aggregates. To form fibrils, the sample was incubated at 37uC without agitation in a low-retention Eppendorf tube for 116 h (,5 days). Fibrils were collected by sedimentation for 45 min at 15,000 g in an Eppendorf desktop micro-centrifuge. The pellet of approximately 40 ml volume was resuspended in 1.24 ml of 99.96 D2O and the pH of the suspension was determined.
