Mechanism of fiber assembly: Treatment of Aβ peptide aggregation with a coarse-grained united-residue force field

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 404, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 537-552

  Rojas, Ana ^a,b   Liwo, Adam ^b   Browne, Dana ^a   Scheraga, Harold A ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloids; A peptide; Hydrophobic interactions; Molecular dynamics; UNRES force field

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; MONOMER; OLIGOMER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COARSE GRAINED UNITED RESIDUE FORCE FIELD MODEL; FORCE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME;

RUMEX;

EID: 78349309658     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.057     Document Type: Article

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