Insights into stability and toxicity of amyloid-like oligomers by replica exchange molecular dynamics analyses

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1965-1973

  De Simone, Alfonso ^a,b   Esposito, Luciana ^a   Pedone, Carlo ^a   Vitagliano, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

EID: 50349099883     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.129213     Document Type: Article

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