Flexible docking of an amyloid-forming peptide from β2-microglobulin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 6199-6205

  Standley, Daron M ^a,b   Yonezawa, Yasushige ^a   Goto, Yuji ^a   Nakamura, Haruki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 microglobulin; Alcohol effects; Amyloid; Flexible docking; Restrained molecular dynamics; Symmetric restraints

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; LYSINE; PEPTIDE; SERINE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SOLVENT EFFECT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION;

AMYLOID; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLVENTS;

EID: 33750493974     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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