[PDF][PDF] Role of electrostatic interactions in amyloid β-protein (Aβ) oligomer formation: a discrete molecular dynamics study

S Yun, B Urbanc, L Cruz, G Bitan, DB Teplow… - Biophysical journal, 2007 - cell.com
Pathological folding and oligomer formation of the amyloid β-protein (Aβ) are widely
perceived as central to Alzheimer's disease. Experimental approaches to study Aβ self …

Self-assembly of the full-length amyloid Aβ42 protein in dimers

Y Zhang, M Hashemi, Z Lv, YL Lyubchenko - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The self-assembly of amyloid (Aβ) proteins into nano-aggregates is a hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) development, yet the mechanism of how disordered monomers …

Computer simulations of Alzheimer's amyloid β-protein folding and assembly

B Urbanc, L Cruz, DB Teplow… - Current Alzheimer …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Pathological folding and aggregation of the amyloid β-protein (Aβ) are widely perceived as
central to understanding Alzheimer's disease (AD) at the molecular level. Experimental …

In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization

B Urbanc, L Cruz, S Yun, SV Buldyrev… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Experimental findings suggest that oligomeric forms of the amyloid β protein (Aβ) play a
critical role in Alzheimer's disease. Thus, elucidating their structure and the mechanisms of …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating how peptide length and a pathogenic mutation modify the structural ensemble of amyloid beta monomer

YS Lin, GR Bowman, KA Beauchamp, VS Pande - Biophysical journal, 2012 - cell.com
The aggregation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides plays an important role in the development of
Alzheimer's disease. Despite extensive effort, it has been difficult to characterize the …

Elucidation of amyloid β-protein oligomerization mechanisms: discrete molecular dynamics study

B Urbanc, M Betnel, L Cruz, G Bitan… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Oligomers of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) play a central role in the pathology of Alzheimer's
disease. Of the two predominant Aβ alloforms, Aβ1− 40 and Aβ1− 42, Aβ1− 42 is more …

A novel pathway for amyloids self-assembly in aggregates at nanomolar concentration mediated by the interaction with surfaces

S Banerjee, M Hashemi, Z Lv, S Maity, JC Rochet… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
A limitation of the amyloid hypothesis in explaining the development of neurodegenerative
diseases is that the level of amyloidogenic polypeptide in vivo is below the critical …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations of Alzheimer Aβ40 elongation and lateral association

J Zheng, B Ma, Y Chang, R Nussinov - Frontiers in bioscience: a …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides can elongate in the fibril axis and associate in the lateral direction.
We present detailed atomic Aβ models with different in-register intermolecular β-sheet-β …

Pathways of amyloid-β aggregation depend on oligomer shape

B Barz, Q Liao, B Strodel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
One of the main research topics related to Alzheimer's disease is the aggregation of the
amyloid-β peptide, which was shown to follow different pathways for the two major alloforms …

A molecular dynamics approach to the structural characterization of amyloid aggregation

M Cecchini, R Curcio, M Pappalardo, R Melki… - Journal of Molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
A novel computational approach to the structural analysis of ordered β-aggregation is
presented and validated on three known amyloidogenic polypeptides. The strategy is based …