Amyloid Formation May Involve α- to β Sheet Interconversion via Peptide Plane Flipping

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1369-1376

  Milner White, James E ^a   Watson, James D ^c   Qi, Guoying ^b   Hayward, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; HYDROGEN; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

AMYLOID; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33748447891     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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