Molecular simulations of amyloid beta assemblies

G Grasso, A Danani - Advances in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Several neurodegenerative disorders arise from the abnormal protein aggregation in the
nervous tissue leading tointracellular inclusions or extracellular aggregates in specific brain …

Insights into Aβ aggregation: A molecular dynamics perspective

JE Shea, B Urbanc - Current topics in medicinal chemistry, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
This article reviews recent molecular dynamics simulations of the Alzheimer's amyloid-β
protein, the primary component of the amyloid plaques found in the brain of Alzheimer's …

Amyloid aggregation simulations: challenges, advances and perspectives

B Strodel - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
In amyloid aggregation diseases soluble proteins coalesce into a wide array of undesirable
structures, ranging through oligomers and prefibrillar assemblies to highly ordered amyloid …

Different force fields give rise to different amyloid aggregation pathways in molecular dynamics simulations

S Samantray, F Yin, B Kav… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The progress toward understanding the molecular basis of Alzheimers's disease is strongly
connected to elucidating the early aggregation events of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide …

Probing oligomerization of amyloid beta peptide in silico

L Dorosh, M Stepanova - Molecular BioSystems, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Aggregation of amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is implicated in fatal Alzheimer's disease, for which no
cure is available. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for this aggregation is …

Early amyloid β-protein aggregation precedes conformational change

B Barz, OO Olubiyi, B Strodel - Chemical communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The aggregation of amyloid-β protein (1–42) is studied at experimental concentrations using
all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. We observe a fast aggregation into oligomers …

Misfolding of the amyloid β‐protein: a molecular dynamics study

D Flöck, S Colacino, G Colombo… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid β‐proteins spontaneously aggregate and build plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's
disease patients. The polypeptide has been the subject of extensive in vitro and …

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 …

Advances in the simulation of protein aggregation at the atomistic scale

M Carballo-Pacheco, B Strodel - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Protein aggregation into highly structured amyloid fibrils is associated with various diseases
including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and type II diabetes. Amyloids can also …

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 …