Structures of a peptide fragment of β2-microglobulin studied by replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations - Towards the understanding of the mechanism of amyloid formation

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5425-5429

  Nishino, Masamichi ^a,b   Sugita, Yuji ^c   Yoda, Takao ^d   Okamoto, Yuko ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hairpin; 2 Microglobulin; Amyloid fibrillogenesis; Generalized ensemble algorithms; Replica exchange molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AMYLOID; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 25844438392     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.08.068     Document Type: Article

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