A coarse-grained model for polyglutamine aggregation modulated by amphipathic flanking sequences

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1226-1235

  Ruff, Kiersten M ^a,b   Khan, Siddique J ^a   Pappu, Rohit V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84924436531     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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