Effect of Taiwan mutation (D7H) on structures of amyloid-β peptides: Replica exchange molecular dynamics study

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 8972-8981

  Truong, Phan Minh ^a   Viet, Man Hoang ^b   Nguyen, Phuong H ^c   Hu, Chin Kun ^d   Li, Mai Suan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c France   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

AGGREGATION RATE; AMYLOID PEPTIDES; FIBRIL FORMATION; FORCE FIELDS; REPLICA EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REPLICA-EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SALT BRIDGES; WATER MODELING;

PEPTIDES;

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN (1-42); PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SOLVENT; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TAIWAN;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; TAIWAN; WATER;

EID: 84905379722     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp503652s     Document Type: Article

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