Effect of protonation state on the stability of amyloid oligomers assembled from TTR(105-115)

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1233-1238

  Porrini, Massimiliano ^a,b   Zachariae, Ulrich ^a   Barran, Perdita E ^a   MacPhee, Cait E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

amyloid; cross oligomers; molecular dynamics; protonation; transthyretin

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIOINFORMATICS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; PEPTIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID FIBRIL; HUMAN PLASMA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PROTONATED PEPTIDES; PROTONATION STATE; TERMINAL GROUPS; TRANSTHYRETIN;

PROTONATION;

EID: 84876583139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400372u     Document Type: Article

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