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Vol 60(2026) N 2 p. 186-196; DOI 10.1134/S0026893325700657 L.G. Bobyleva1, I.M. Vikhlyantsev1**, A.G. Bobylev1,2* Immunoglobulin-Like Domains Are the Key to Understanding Amyloid Aggregation 1Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290 Russia2Scientific Center of Genetics and Life Sciences, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius Federal Territory, 354340 Russia *bobylev1982@gmail.com **ivanvikhlyantsev@gmail.com Received - 2025-08-25; Revised - 2025-10-16; Accepted - 2025-10-17 Modern concepts of the mechanisms of protein aggregation with an emphasis on immunoglobulin-like domains (Ig domains) as a structural platform predisposed to the formation of aggregates with amyloid properties are presented in this review. Particular attention is paid to the muscle proteins titin and myosin-binding protein C, which form not fibrillar, but amorphous amyloid aggregates with a cross-β structure without an increase in the total content of the secondary β-structure, capable of binding thioflavin T (ThT) and Congo red. The absence of a nucleation phase during the formation of amyloid aggregates of these proteins, as well as their partial disaggregation, allows us to declare a new, previously undescribed pathway of amyloid protein aggregation. We refer to it as self-templating amorphous β-assembly (conformational conversion by a prion-like mechanism), characteristic of multidomain proteins of the sarcomeric cytoskeleton. amyloid, immunoglobulin-like domains, titin, myosin-binding protein C, aggregates, cross-β structure, amorphous aggregates |
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