Effect of D-amino acids at Asp23 and Ser26 residues on the conformational preference of Aβ20-29 peptides

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 335, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 712-722

  Shanmugam, Ganesh ^a   Polavarapu, Prasad L ^a   Hallgas, Balázs ^b,c   Majer, Zsuzsa ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

helix; Amyloid; sheet; turn; Aggregation; Circular dichroism; D Amino acid; Peptide; Racemization

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[20-29]; BUFFER; DEXTRO AMINO ACID; GLYCOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERINE; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 23944522788     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.136     Document Type: Article

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