Monte Carlo study of the formation and conformational properties of dimers of Aβ42 variants

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 410, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-367

  Mitternacht, Simon ^a,b   Staneva, Iskra ^a   Härd, Torleif ^c   Irbäck, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

all atom; amyloid; molecular simulation; oligomerization; protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PEPTIDE 42; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DIMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

EID: 79958710594     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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