Synergistic interactions between repeats in tau protein and Aβ amyloids may be responsible for accelerated aggregation via polymorphic States

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5172-5181

  Miller, Yifat ^a   Ma, Buyong ^b   Nussinov, Ruth ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM IMAGE; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; OLIGOMERIC COMPLEXES; POLYMORPHIC STATE; STABLE COMPLEXES; STRUCTURE DOMAINS; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TAU PROTEINS;

GLYCOPROTEINS; OLIGOMERS; PROTEINS;

COMPLEXATION;

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; TAU PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 79958821061     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200400u     Document Type: Article

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