Temporary secondary structures in tau, an intrinsically disordered protein

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 525-533

  Battisti, Anna ^a   Ciasca, Gabriele ^b   Grottesi, Alessandro ^c   Bianconi, Antonio ^b   Tenenbaum, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CASPUR   (Italy)

Author keywords

intrinsically disordered proteins; molecular dynamics; secondary structures; tau protein

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DISORDERED PROTEINS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LOCAL TRANSITIONS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; N-TERMINALS; NATIVE STATE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE; RANDOM COIL; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STABLE STRUCTURES; TAU PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEURONS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 84862072035     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2011.633347     Document Type: Article

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