Driving forces and structural determinants of steric zipper peptide oligomer formation elucidated by atomistic simulations

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 421, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 390-416

  Matthes, Dirk ^a   Gapsys, Vytautas ^a   De Groot, Bert L ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

amyloid; collective coordinates; molecular dynamics; nucleated conformational conversion; peptide aggregation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; INSULIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; STERIC ZIPPER PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SOLVATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863989280     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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