Monte Carlo simulations of protein amyloid formation reveal origin of sigmoidal aggregation kinetics

Molecular BioSystems

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2296-2303

  Linse, Björn ^a   Linse, Sara ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79959243317     PISSN: 1742206X     EISSN: 17422051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0mb00321b     Document Type: Article

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