STITCHER: Dynamic assembly of likely amyloid and prion β-structures from secondary structure predictions

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 410-420

  Bryan Jr , Allen W ^a,b,c   O'Donnell, Charles W ^b,c   Menke, Matthew ^c   Cowen, Lenore J ^d   Lindquist, Susan ^b,e   Berger, Bonnie ^c,f  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Tufts University   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

sheets; Dynamic programming; Energy model; Entropy; Stacking; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID; DESMUSLIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HET-S PROTEIN, PODOSPORA ANSERINA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PRION; RNQ1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; STITCHER METHOD; CHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

HET-S PRION; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

ALGORITHMS; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ENTROPY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84855674302     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23203     Document Type: Article

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