Green Tea Polyphenol Microparticles Based on the Oxidative Coupling of EGCG Inhibit Amyloid Aggregation/Cytotoxicity and Serve as a Platform for Drug Delivery.

The accumulation of cross-β-sheet amyloid fibrils is a hallmark of all human amyloid diseases. The compound epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the main polyphenol present in green tea, has been described to have beneficial effects in several pathologies, including amyloidogenic diseases. This polyphenol blocks amyloidogenesis and disaggregates a broad range of amyloidogenic peptides comprising amyloid fibrils in vitro. The mechanism by which EGCG acts in the context of amyloid aggregation is not clear. Most of the biological effects of EGCG are attributable to its antioxidant activity. However, EGCG-oxidized products appear to be sufficient for the majority of EGCG amyloid remodeling observed against some polypeptides. If controlled, EGCG oxidation can afford homogenous microparticles (MPs) and can serve as drug delivery agents. Herein, we produced EGCG MPs by oxidative coupling and analyzed their activity during the aggregation of the protein α-synuclein (α-syn), the main protein related to Parkinson's disease. The MPs modestly remodeled mature amyloid fibrils and efficiently inhibited the amyloidogenic aggregation of α-syn. The MPs showed low cytotoxicity against both dopaminergic cells and microglial cells. The MPs reduced the cytotoxic effects of α-syn oligomers. Interestingly, the MPs were loaded with another antiamyloidogenic compound, increasing their activity against amyloid aggregation. We propose the use of EGCG MPs as a bifunctional strategy, blocking amyloid aggregation directly and carrying a molecule that can act synergistically to alleviate the symptoms caused by the amyloidogenic pathway.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

• Publication date

  2020-06-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00188PMID 33455167
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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