Dual effect of crowders on fibrillation kinetics of polypeptide chains revealed by lattice models.

We have developed the lattice model for describing polypeptide chains in the presence of crowders. The influence of crowding confinement on the fibrillation kinetics of polypeptide chains is studied using this model. We observed the non-trivial behavior of the fibril formation time τfib that it decreases with the concentration of crowders if crowder sizes are large enough, but the growth is observed for crowders of small sizes. This allows us to explain the recent experimental observation on the dual effect of crowding particles on fibril growth of proteins that for a fixed crowder concentration the fibrillation kinetics is fastest at intermediate values of total surface of crowders. It becomes slow at either small or large coverages of cosolutes. It is shown that due to competition between the energetics and entropic effects, the dependence of τfib on the size of confined space is described by a parabolic function.

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