Stable polyglutamine dimers can contain β-hairpins with interdigitated side chains - But not α-helices, β-nanotubes, β-pseudohelices, or steric zippers

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1721-1728

  Miettinen, Markus S ^a,b   Monticelli, Luca ^c,d,e   Nedumpully Govindan, Praveen ^f   Knecht, Volker ^g   Ignatova, Zoya ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^f AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBE; PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN AGGREGATE;

CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOTUBES; PEPTIDES; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84898867352     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.02.027     Document Type: Article

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