Kinetics of Amyloid Aggregation: A Study of the GNNQQNY Prion Sequence

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Nasica Labouze, Jessica ^a   Mousseau, Normand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; COARSE-GRAINED POTENTIAL; CRITICAL NUCLEUS SIZE; DESCRIPTORS; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; FINITE-SIZE SYSTEMS;

MONOMERS;

AMYLOID PROTEIN; GLYCYLASPARAGINYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLTYROSINE; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84870679774     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002782     Document Type: Article

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