... nonamy-loidogenic but cytotoxic [14,18]. In the presence of MPTP, dopamine accelerated the rate of fibrillation,leading to a higher rate constant of aggregation.Because accumulation of the toxic protofibrils ... dopamine–quinoneadducts (because of auto-oxidation of the neurotrans-mitter), especially dopaminochrome, with a-synuclein,inhibited the conversion of the more-toxic a-synucleinprotofibrils to the less-toxic mature ... with MPTP, therate of formation of the more toxic protofibrils (mea-sured as lag time) was delayed, whereas the rate of conversion of protofibrils to the less toxic fibrils (mea-sured as apparent...