Computer Simulation Studies of Aβ37–42 Aggregation Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Water and Salt Solution

YI Yang, YQ Gao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015 - ACS Publications
In vivo self-assembly of proteins into aggregates known as amyloids is related to many
diseases. Although a large number of studies have been performed on the formation of …

Molecular Mechanism and Kinetics of Amyloid-β42 Aggregate Formation: A Simulation Study

VH Man, X He, B Ji, S Liu, XQ Xie… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As an important neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the oligomerization
of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides has been intensively investigated in both theoretical and …

Key residue for aggregation of amyloid-β peptides

SG Itoh, M Yagi-Utsumi, K Kato… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is known that oligomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Aβ has two isoforms: Aβ40 and Aβ42. Although the difference between Aβ40 and Aβ42 is …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Computational Study on the Structural Diversity of Amyloid Beta Peptide (Aβ10-35) Oligomers

S Jang, S Shin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
We studied the oligomerization of Alzheimer amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) using a replica
exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulation. The simulation was performed with Aβ10 …

Thermodynamic phase diagram of amyloid-β (16–22) peptide

Y Wang, SJ Bunce, SE Radford… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The aggregation of monomeric amyloid β protein (Aβ) peptide into oligomers and amyloid
fibrils in the mammalian brain is associated with Alzheimer's disease. Insight into the …

Oligomer formation of amyloid-β (29–42) from its monomers using the Hamiltonian replica-permutation molecular dynamics simulation

SG Itoh, H Okumura - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
Oligomers of amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) are formed during the early stage of the
amyloidogenesis process and exhibit neurotoxicity. The oligomer formation process of Aβ …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …