Varied probability of staying collapsed/extended at the conformational equilibrium of monomeric Aβ40 and Aβ42

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Song, Wanling ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Colletier, Jacques Philippe ^b,c   Yang, Huaiyu ^a   Xu, Yechun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84930946529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11024     Document Type: Article

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