Salmon calcitonin and amyloid β: Two peptides with amyloidogenic capacity adopt different conformational manifolds in their unfolded states

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2810-2819

  Schweitzer Stenner, Reinhard ^a   Measey, Thomas ^a   Hagarman, Andrew ^a   Eker, Fatma ^b   Griebenow, Kai ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SOLUTIONS;

CONFORMATIONAL MANIFOLDS; CYSTEINES; EXCITONIC COUPLING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS; PEPTIDE CHAIN; SALMON CALCITONIN AND AMYLOID;

POLYPEPTIDES;

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; SALCATONIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANISOTROPY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DISULFIDE BOND; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

AMINO ACIDS; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33644672979     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052282r     Document Type: Article

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