Calculation of the free energy barriers in the oligomerisation of Aβ peptide fragments

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5614-5622

  Cheon, Mookyung ^a,b   Favrin, Giorgio ^a   Chang, Iksoo ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid fibrils; Oligomers; Protein aggregation; Protein misfolding

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BINDING SITES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 50249087830     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3104     Document Type: Article

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