"Janus" Cyclic Peptides: A New Approach to Amyloid Fibril Inhibition?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Todorova, Nevena ^a   Yeung, Levi ^a   Hung, Andrew ^a   Yarovsky, Irene ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN C2; APOLIPOPROTEIN C2[60-70]; CYCLOPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ENTHALPY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AMYLOID; APOLIPOPROTEIN C-II; CYCLIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84874233451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057437     Document Type: Article

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