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Exploration of the potential energy surface for the conformational interconversion of the amyloid $\beta$ peptide at the fibril end

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Pith's one-line read At the end of an amyloid-β fibril, a peptide segment twisted off the sheet is a real local minimum, and whether it snaps back is set by the size of the sidechain at the torsion axis: bulky sidechains impose ~0.5 eV return barriers, while…

desk verdict Useful DFT/NEB study of twisted conformations at an Abeta fibril-end dimer, with a clear steric-hindrance argument, but the starting structure 6OIZ contains isoaspartate at residue 23, which undermines the D23 barriers. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.09151 v1 pith:XOX725KI submitted 2025-05-14 physics.bio-ph q-bio.BM

Yasuhiro Oishi , Motoharu Kitatani , Kichitaro Nakajima , Hirotsugu Ogi , Koichi Kusakabe This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords amyloidβpeptidefibrilendtwistedconformationdensityfunctionaltheorynudgedelasticbandpotentialenergysurfacesterichindranceAlzheimer'sdisease
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This paper asks what happens when the free end of an amyloid-β fibril twists: can a part of the terminal peptide lift away from its neighbor, and once lifted, does it return? Using density-functional theory on a two-peptide model of the fibril end, it shows that these twisted states are genuine local minima, always less stable than the fully stacked fibril state, and that the cost of creating them rises with the number of backbone hydrogen bonds broken and with the loss of hydrophobic contacts. The central result is about coming back: the twisted-to-fibril activation barrier is about 0.4–0.6 eV when a bulky sidechain (glutamate, aspartate, valine) sits near the torsion axis, but only about 0.05 eV for a glycine-site twist, where the sidechain is a single hydrogen atom. The paper concludes that, apart from one case stabilized by an internal hydrogen bond, the tendency of a twisted fibril end to revert is governed by the local steric hindrance around the torsion axis. This matters because fibril elongation happens at the fibril end, so the same sidechain gating could control how long the end stays open for monomer addition.

What carries the argument

The central object is the twisted conformation: a local minimum in which part of the upper monomer of the fibril-end dimer is lifted from the lower monomer by torsion about one backbone single bond, while the rest remains stacked in the parallel $\beta$-sheet. The machinery that carries the argument is the nudged elastic band (NEB) minimum-energy path, together with a count of broken backbone hydrogen bonds and a set of interatomic contact distances measured at the barrier top and at the twisted minimum. These convert the structural idea of 'sidechain near the torsional axis' into a quantitative barrier ranking.

What would settle it

Recompute the six torsional pathways with explicit water, for example by embedding the fibril-end dimer in a QM/MM calculation, and compare the G25($\psi$) return barrier with the bulky-sidechain barriers; if the near-zero barrier is not preserved, the steric-gating claim fails. A complementary experimental check is to look for twisted conformations at fibril ends by cryo-electron microscopy or solid-state NMR: the claim predicts that persistent twisted ends should be found at axes with bulky sidechains, not at glycine axes.

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Core claim

At the terminal layer of an amyloid-β fibril, rotating the backbone around a single bond—the $\psi$ or $\phi$ dihedral angle—can lift a stretch of the upper peptide off its neighbor while the rest remains hydrogen-bonded in the parallel $\beta$-sheet. The paper calls these twisted conformations and shows by density-functional theory that each is a local minimum sitting above the fully stacked fibril conformation, with the endothermic energy tracking the number of broken backbone hydrogen bonds ($\Delta N_{\mathrm{HB}}$) and the loss of hydrophobic dispersion contacts such as the F20 $\pi$-stacking. The central quantitative finding is the return barrier: nudged elastic band paths give twisted-to-fibril barriers of roughly 0.4–0.6 eV when a bulky sidechain (E22, D23, V24) sits near the torsion axis, because the sidechain collides with atoms of the lower monomer on the way back, but only about 0.05 eV for the G25 $\psi$ torsion, where the sidechain is a single hydrogen. In the one small-sidechain case with a high barrier, the S26 $\phi$ torsion, an intramolecular hydrogen bond stabilizes the twisted form; setting that case aside, the paper concludes that the propensity to revert is controlled by the local steric hindrance around the torsion axis.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusions assume that water does not rearrange the local contacts around the torsion axis, so the vacuum-computed barrier heights still decide which twisted ends snap back quickly and which do not.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Twisted states at fibril ends should persist precisely where the torsion axis passes through residues with bulky sidechains, making those the sites where partially detached, open conformations can be captured.
  • A twist at a glycine site such as G25($\psi$) should relax back to the full $\beta$-sheet almost immediately, so open states at glycine positions are unlikely to survive long enough to be observed.
  • Because the endothermic energy grows with the number of broken backbone hydrogen bonds, twists that lift longer N-terminal stretches are both less stable and more costly, giving a concrete ranking of which torsional axes are plausible in a growing fibril.
  • The barrier gap—about 0.4–0.6 eV versus 0.05 eV—implies very different return time scales, so bulky-sidechain twisted ends should revert much more slowly than glycine-site twisted ends at physiological temperature.
  • If water does not disrupt the local packing, the same steric barrier ordering should survive in solution even though the relative stabilities of the twisted states will shift because water can hydrogen-bond the exposed backbone.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the steric-gating rule is right, replacing G25 with a residue carrying a bulkier sidechain in the same dimer model should raise the near-zero return barrier into the 0.4–0.6 eV range; the paper does not test mutations, but the mechanism predicts this.
  • The same local-steric logic should apply to torsion axes that lift the C-terminal side of the chain; the paper states this expectation but does not compute those pathways.
  • In a longer fibril, the lower monomer is itself anchored to further monomers, which may stiffen the sheet and shift the barriers, so whether the dimer ranking survives in a trimer or larger model is an open test.
  • If twisted states are real in solution, they may appear as short-lived frayed ends in single-molecule experiments, with the paper implying that glycine-adjacent twists would be too short-lived to catch whereas bulky-sidechain twists would be the observable ones.
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Summary. This paper uses PBEsol+D3 density functional theory with gamma-point PWscf sampling and nudged elastic band calculations to study torsional conformational transitions at a model of the amyloid-beta fibril end. The model is a two-monomer parallel beta-sheet built from PDB 6OIZ (A-beta residues 20-34), and the paper examines six twisted conformations generated by psi/phi torsions at E22, D23, V24, G25, and S26. All twisted conformations are found to be endothermic relative to the fibril conformation, with endothermicity correlated with the number of broken mainchain hydrogen bonds and, in some cases, with the loss of van der Waals contacts. NEB barrier heights for the twisted-to-fibril transition range from 0.43 to 0.61 eV, except for the psi torsion of G25, which gives 0.05 eV. The authors attribute the barrier heights to local steric hindrance between the sidechain near the torsional axis and the lower monomer, and conclude that the propensity of a twisted conformation to revert to the fibril conformation depends strongly on the sidechain size and orientation near the torsional axis.

Significance. If the results hold, the paper provides an ab initio, parameter-free characterization of a local conformational transition at an amyloid fibril end and yields a falsifiable prediction: twisted conformations near bulky residues are kinetically trapped, while glycine-site twists revert readily. The strengths of the work are that no quantities are fitted to the target data, the NEB protocol directly computes barrier heights rather than inferring them from heuristics, and the paired comparisons within the same residue segment control some structural confounds. The structural analysis in terms of specific interatomic distances is also a useful step. However, the quantitative reliability of the barrier ranking is limited by the absence of convergence tests and error bars, by gamma-point-only sampling, by the gas-phase dimer model, and by a significant concern about the residue-23 stereochemistry in the starting crystal structure. The central claim is qualitatively plausible but is not quantitatively established in the present form.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 2.1 and Table 1] The dimer model is built from PDB 6OIZ, which according to reference [29] contains an L-isoaspartate at residue 23. The manuscript nevertheless treats residue 23 as standard aspartate and defines psi/phi torsions for D23, and Table 1 reports a 0.61 eV barrier for D23(psi) together with O-O distances attributed to the D23 carboxyl group. In isoaspartate, the sidechain carboxyl is incorporated into the mainchain and an extra methylene inserts into the backbone, so the computed D23 torsions and the associated steric analysis do not describe the native A-beta fibril end. This weakens the sidechain-size argument, which uses D23 as one of its charged-residue examples; the remaining E22, V24, G25, and S26 comparison still shows a glycine outlier, but the D23 data must either be re-computed on a native Asp23 model or explicitly removed and the conclusions re-derived.
  2. [Section 2.2 and Table 1] The calculations are performed only at the gamma point for an isolated dimer in a 45 x 45 x 40 Angstrom cell, and no convergence tests, DFT-D3 benchmarking, or error bars are reported. The G25(psi) barrier of 0.05 eV is almost certainly below the intrinsic uncertainty of PBEsol+D3 for hydrogen-bonded peptide systems, so the quantitative contrast between 'low' and 'high' barriers is not established. Please add cutoff, k-point, and cell-size convergence checks and a realistic uncertainty estimate, or recast the comparison as a qualitative ordering with explicit caveats about the accuracy of the functional.
  3. [Section 4] The solvent discussion assumes that water does not disrupt the local conformation around the torsional axis and that the steric barrier survives in solution, citing only the authors' own adsorption studies [39,40] as an analogy. Because the twisted minima are gas-phase minima and the endothermicity would likely change substantially in an aqueous environment, the experimental prediction (twisted conformations at bulky residues are observable at fibril ends) rests on an untested assumption. At minimum, a continuum-solvent calculation or an explicit-water test of one representative barrier is needed before this prediction is stated as a conclusion.
  4. [Section 2.2] The NEB protocol is not fully specified: the number of images, the spring constants, the convergence threshold for the band, and whether a climbing-image or improved-tangent variant was used are not reported. Without these details the barrier heights in Table 1 cannot be reproduced or independently assessed, which is a serious reproducibility issue for a quantitative barrier comparison.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Table 1] The row labeled 'S25 (phi)' should read 'S26 (phi)' to match the text, Figure 4, and the residue numbering used throughout the manuscript.
  2. [Section 3.3] The text refers to the 'phi torsion of D24' twice when describing the barrier analysis; the intended label is presumably 'phi torsion of V24', as the torsional axis is in the 23-24 segment.
  3. [Section 2.2] The phrase 'Hellman-Feynman force' should be 'Hellmann-Feynman force' (double 'n').
  4. [Section 3.2] The statement that 'similar results are expected for torsions that lift the peptide chain from the C-terminus' is an untested extrapolation; it would be preferable to label it explicitly as a conjecture.
  5. [Figure 4] The panel headers in Figure 4 are difficult to read because of the small font size and the use of Greek symbols in subscripts; using a clearer notation such as 'E22 psi' and 'D23 phi' would improve legibility.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: barriers and relative energies are computed ab initio; the only self-citation is a non-load-bearing solvent analogy.

full rationale

The paper's chain is: build a dimer from PDB 6OIZ, relax endpoints with PBEsol+D3 DFT, locate twisted minima, connect endpoints with NEB, and interpret barrier heights by local steric contacts. No parameter is fitted to the barriers that are then 'predicted'; the barrier heights in Table 1 are outputs of the electronic-structure calculation, and the sidechain-size explanation is a post hoc structural rationalization, not an input defining the barrier. The solvent discussion assumes rather than derives that hydration does not disrupt the local torsional environment, citing the authors' own pyrenebutanoic-acid adsorption studies [39,40] as an analogy; this citation is self-referential but not load-bearing — the central DFT/NEB result does not depend on it, and no uniqueness claim or fitted quantity is imported from that work. The isoaspartate content of PDB 6OIZ is a legitimate validity concern for the D23 torsions, but it is an input-structure correctness issue rather than circularity: computing a barrier in a non-native model is not equivalent to assuming the conclusion. Under the stated rules, no equation reduces to another by construction, so the circularity score is 1, reflecting only a minor non-load-bearing self-citation.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new particles, forces, or conserved quantities, and no data-fitted parameters. The central claims rest on the accuracy of the chosen DFT functional, the representativeness of the single crystal-derived dimer model, the meaning of zero-temperature NEB barriers in solution, and the geometric HB counting rule. All of these are domain assumptions that a skeptical reader should test before generalizing the barrier ranking.

assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption PBEsol + DFT-D3 accurately describes the relative energies and hydrogen-bond/van der Waals balance of amyloid peptide conformers.
    The entire energy ranking and barrier comparison in Sections 3.2 and 3.3 depend on this exchange-correlation approximation; no validation against higher-level theory or experiment is provided.
  • domain assumption A single crystal-derived dimer model (PDB 6OIZ, residues 20-34) represents the aqueous fibril-end environment.
    Section 2.1 builds the model from one crystallized peptide; solvent and additional fibril layers are omitted, and the Discussion acknowledges this assumption.
  • domain assumption Zero-temperature, gas-phase NEB minimum-energy paths are meaningful proxies for conformational reversion propensity in solution.
    The Discussion assumes water does not disrupt the local conformation around the torsional axis and cites the authors' own prior adsorption studies [39,40] as analogy; no explicit solvent simulation is performed.
  • domain assumption The geometric hydrogen-bond criterion (D-A distance <= 3.6 Å and D-H-A angle >= 120°) from ref. [38] correctly reports which hydrogen bonds are broken.
    The endothermic-energy trends in Section 3.2 are organized by this HB count; the criterion is a cutoff definition rather than a quantum mechanical binding analysis.
  • domain assumption Gamma-point-only sampling with a 25/250 Ry cutoff in a 45x45x40 Å cell is converged for an isolated peptide dimer.
    Section 2.2 states the settings but gives no convergence tests with respect to cutoff, k-points, or cell size; relative energies quoted to 0.01 eV assume numerical convergence.
  • standard math Born-Oppenheimer separation of electronic and nuclear motion with classical nuclei at 0 K.
    DFT and NEB calculations rest on this approximation; no nuclear quantum effects or finite temperature are considered.

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abstract

The formation of amyloid fibrils comprising amyloid $\beta$ (A$\beta$) peptides is associated with the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we theoretically investigated the A$\beta$ structure at the fibril end using the density functional theory calculation. Several twisted conformations were identified as local minima in which a part of the peptide chain bends upward while the rest remains bound to the lower A$\beta$ monomer. Fibril-to-twisted conformational transition exhibited endothermic behavior, with endothermic energy increasing as more backbone hydrogen bonds were broken. In addition, the loss of van der Waals interaction from the hydrophobic sidechain contributed to endothermicity. The nudged elastic band method was applied to analyze the potential energy surface connecting the fibril and twisted conformations. Comparison of the activation barriers between different twisted conformations revealed that certain twisted conformations returned relatively easily to the fibril conformation, whereas others encountered a higher activation barrier and reverted less readily. Detailed structural analysis revealed that the twisted conformation's propensity to return originates from the local steric hindrance imposed by the sidechain near the torsional axis.

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Figure 1. Side and top views of the optimized structure of the fibril conformation. Throughout this paper, the carbon [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Side and top views of the optimized structure of the twisted conformation for each torsion. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Energy of the twisted conformation relative to the fibril conformation for each torsion. The amino acid [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Calculated potential energy surface for each torsion. The energy of the fibril conformation was set as a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png]

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