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 …

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 …

Amyloid β-protein monomer folding: free-energy surfaces reveal alloform-specific differences

M Yang, DB Teplow - Journal of molecular biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Alloform-specific differences in structural dynamics between amyloid β-protein (Aβ) 40 and
Aβ42 appear to underlie the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. To elucidate these …

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 …

Thermodynamics and dynamics of amyloid peptide oligomerization are sequence dependent

Y Lu, P Derreumaux, Z Guo… - Proteins: Structure …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregation of the full‐length amyloid‐β (Aβ) and β2‐microglobulin (β2m) proteins is
associated with Alzheimer's disease and dialysis‐related amyloidosis, respectively. This …

Structure of the 21–30 fragment of amyloid β‐protein

A Baumketner, SL Bernstein, T Wyttenbach… - Protein …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Folding and self‐assembly of the 42‐residue amyloid β‐protein (Aβ) are linked to
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The 21–30 region of Aβ, Aβ (21–30), is resistant to proteolysis …

Simulation of pH‐dependent edge strand rearrangement in human β‐2 microglobulin

S Park, JG Saven - Protein science, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloid fibrils formed from unrelated proteins often share morphological similarities,
suggesting common biophysicalmechanisms for amyloidogenesis. Biochemical studies of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A Study of the α-Helical Intermediate Preceding the Aggregation of the Amino-Terminal Fragment of the β Amyloid Peptide (Aβ1–28)

AV Rojas, A Liwo, HA Scheraga - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The β amyloid (Aβ) peptide aggregates to form β-rich structures that are known to trigger
Alzheimer's disease. Experiments suggest that an α-helical intermediate precedes the …

[HTML][HTML] Competition between intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in an amyloid-forming protein

KE Routledge, GG Tartaglia, GW Platt… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite much progress in understanding the folding and the aggregation processes of
proteins, the rules defining their interplay have yet to be fully defined. This problem is of …