Spontaneous β-barrel formation: An all-atom Monte Carlo study of Aβ16-22 oligomerization

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-214

  Irbäck, Anders ^a   Mitternacht, Simon ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amyloid ; Cluster size analysis; Protein aggregation; Protein misfolding; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[16-32]; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BETA SHEET; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANDOMIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 40549089901     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21682     Document Type: Article

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