Mapping the conformational dynamics and pathways of spontaneous steric zipper peptide oligomerization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Matthes, Dirk ^a   Gapsys, Vytautas ^a   Daebel, Venita ^a   de Groot, Bert L ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALYLGLUTAMINYLISOLEUCYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSINE; VALYLGLUTAMYLALANYLLEUCYLTYROSYLLEUCINE; AMYLOID; ION; SOLVENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AMYLOID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955770935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019129     Document Type: Article

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