[HTML][HTML] Structure of ring-shaped Aβ42 oligomers determined by conformational selection

L Tran, N Basdevant, C Prévost, T Ha-Duong - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The oligomerization of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides into soluble non-fibrillar species plays a
critical role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. However, it has been challenging to …

Conformational Ensemble and Polymorphism of the All-Atom Alzheimer's Aβ37–42 Amyloid Peptide Oligomers

PH Nguyen, P Derreumaux - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2013 - ACS Publications
Although the Aβ37–42 peptide has two opposite terminal charges, counterintuitively its
current fibril amyloid structure reveals in register parallel β-strands, as formed by the full …

Insights into the mixture of Aβ24 and Aβ42 peptides from atomistic simulations

PH Nguyen, P Derreumaux - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers play a central role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Plaques of AD
patients consist of Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides and truncated Aβ peptides. The Aβ24 peptide …

The conformational stability of nonfibrillar amyloid-β peptide oligomers critically depends on the C-terminal peptide length

E Socher, H Sticht, AHC Horn - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2014 - ACS Publications
The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is one key molecule in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
We investigated the conformational stability of a nonfibrillar tetrameric Aβ structure by …

[HTML][HTML] Varied Probability of Staying Collapsed/Extended at the Conformational Equilibrium of Monomeric Aβ40 and Aβ42

W Song, Y Wang, JP Colletier, H Yang, Y Xu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
In present study, we set out to investigate the conformation dynamics of Aβ40 and Aβ42
through exploring the impact of intra-molecular interactions on conformation dynamics using …

Early aggregation mechanism of Aβ16− 22 revealed by Markov state models

MU Rahman, K Song, LT Da, HF Chen - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aβ 16–22 is believed to have critical role in early aggregation of full length amyloids that are
associated with the Alzheimer's disease and can aggregate to form amyloid fibrils. However …

Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of the co-aggregation of Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides: a REMD simulation study

X Li, Z Yang, Y Chen, S Zhang, G Wei… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The aggregation of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) into oligomers and amyloid fibrils is closely
related to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ40 and Aβ42, as two most prominent isoforms of Aβ …

Aβ monomers transiently sample oligomer and fibril-like configurations: Ensemble characterization using a combined MD/NMR approach

DJ Rosenman, CR Connors, W Chen, C Wang… - Journal of molecular …, 2013 - Elsevier
Amyloid β (Aβ) peptides are a primary component of fibrils and oligomers implicated in the
etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the intrinsic flexibility of these peptides has …

[HTML][HTML] Compact fibril-like structure of amyloid β-peptide (1–42) monomers

B Barz, AK Buell, S Nath - Chemical communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid β (Aβ) monomers are the smallest assembly units, and play an important role in
most of the individual processes involved in amyloid fibril formation. An important question is …

Dimerization Mechanism of Alzheimer Aβ40 Peptides: The High Content of Intrapeptide-Stabilized Conformations in A2V and A2T Heterozygous Dimers Retards …

PH Nguyen, F Sterpone, R Pouplana… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Amyloid beta (Aβ) oligomerization is associated with the origin and progression of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). While the A2V mutation enhances aggregation kinetics and …