Transient β -hairpin formation in α -synuclein monomer revealed by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 143, Issue 24, 2015, Pages

  Yu, Hang ^a,b   Han, Wei ^a,c,d   Ma, Wen ^a,b   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; MONOMERS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; COUPLING CONSTANTS; LONG RANGE CONTACTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; PROTEIN AGGREGATE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

EID: 84950113930     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4936910     Document Type: Article

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