Are long-range structural correlations behind the aggregration phenomena of polyglutamine diseases?

We have characterized the conformational ensembles of polyglutamine Qn peptides of various lengths n (ranging from 6 to 40), both with and without the presence of a C-terminal polyproline hexapeptide. For this, we used state-of-the-art molecular dynamics simulations combined with a novel statistical...

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Main Authors: Mahmoud Moradi, Volodymyr Babin, Christopher Roland, Celeste Sagui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3343152?pdf=render