Molecular dynamics studies of the process of amyloid aggregation of peptide fragments of transthyretin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 340, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 555-569

  Paci, Emanuele ^a   Gsponer, Jörg ^b   Salvatella, Xavier ^b   Vendruscolo, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A, antiparallel; amyloid fibrils; E, extended; EA, extended and aligned; EAS, extended, aligned and structurally similar; misfolding; molecular dynamics; P, parallel; peptide aggregation; S, similar

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PREALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLID STATE;

MUS;

EID: 2942707921     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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